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Timothy Spall, the man who should be king

Hopkins has Hollywood street cred, but Spall would have pulled it off without a hitch

Local actor and old friend George Weinberg-Harter beat me to it with his response to my review of Hitchcock posted on Facebook: "Hopkins looks neither like himself nor like Hitch. An excellent actor who might have been perfect in the role, without special make-up, is Timothy Spall, alas."

News first leaked that two Hitchcock biopics were in the works around the time The King's Speech, which features Spall as Winston Churchill, was released. I remember thinking what a great Hitchcock he would make.

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Instead of going for corporeality they slap a corpulent costume on a known commodity. Anthony Hopkins is a household name and Timothy Spall is a "the name sounds familiar, but I cannot place him."

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The British character actor is probably best known as Peter Pettigrew in a pair of Harry Potter films, but having never made my it all the way through one of them, I find myself in no position to comment.

My Spall of choice is Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, the true-life story of Britain's most productive (and commiserative) executioner.

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Toby Jones came closer to capturing the look and sound of Hitchcock in the equally dreadful, The Girl. The made-for-cable biopic also got it right by casting Imelda Staunton as Alma Reville aka Mrs. Hitch.

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As for the bold and beautiful Helen Mirren as the big screen's answer to the unassuming Mrs. H, I guess we should be thankful that Fox Searchlight didn't go with Selena Gomez.

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Local actor and old friend George Weinberg-Harter beat me to it with his response to my review of Hitchcock posted on Facebook: "Hopkins looks neither like himself nor like Hitch. An excellent actor who might have been perfect in the role, without special make-up, is Timothy Spall, alas."

News first leaked that two Hitchcock biopics were in the works around the time The King's Speech, which features Spall as Winston Churchill, was released. I remember thinking what a great Hitchcock he would make.

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/nov/30/36252/

Instead of going for corporeality they slap a corpulent costume on a known commodity. Anthony Hopkins is a household name and Timothy Spall is a "the name sounds familiar, but I cannot place him."

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/nov/30/36240/

The British character actor is probably best known as Peter Pettigrew in a pair of Harry Potter films, but having never made my it all the way through one of them, I find myself in no position to comment.

My Spall of choice is Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, the true-life story of Britain's most productive (and commiserative) executioner.

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/nov/30/36249/

Toby Jones came closer to capturing the look and sound of Hitchcock in the equally dreadful, The Girl. The made-for-cable biopic also got it right by casting Imelda Staunton as Alma Reville aka Mrs. Hitch.

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/nov/30/36251/

As for the bold and beautiful Helen Mirren as the big screen's answer to the unassuming Mrs. H, I guess we should be thankful that Fox Searchlight didn't go with Selena Gomez.

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