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Take a look at some of your favorite A-Listers who took inspiration from living people and imbibed their traits in movie/TV characters:
1Every role that Liev Schreiber has played was partly based on his maternal grandfather. His grandfather, Alex Milgram, was a calm person who influenced him so much that he partly modeled all his roles after him.
2Jared Leto’s modeled his Blade Runner 2049 on one of his teachers. His teacher was a blind man who taught Jared how to act like a blind man. His eyes in the movie are directly modeled on his teacher’s real eyes.
3One of the Muppets was inspired directly by Michael Cera. Walter and his puppeteer said, “They told me to think about Michael Cera – that if he was a puppeteer he would already have the job.”
4One of the characters inAvatar: The Last Airbenderwas inspired byDwayne Johnson. The makers even tried to get The Rock to voiceThe Boulderbut that didn’t work out, unfortunately.
5Lady Gaga’s role inAmerican Horror Story: Hotelwas modeled on a murderer. She watched Robert Durst inThe Jinxevery day to study his practical nature in which he was devious and evil.”
6Melissa McCarthy modeled her Bridesmaids character on Guy Fieri. She even asked the higher-ups if she could wear spiky hair like Fieri’s but the makers told her “You can’t actually be Guy Fieri.”
7Matthew McConaughey’s Serenity character was based on a real guy, He went on a boat tour with this tuna captain who was super friendly, until a fish bit – then, nothing existed for him in the world except that fish.
8All the Ninja Turtles in the 2014 TMNT movie were modeled on movie stars. Leo was inspired by Russell Crowe (and Nelson Mandela), Donatello after Leonard Nimoy, Mikey after Bill Murray, and Raphael after Clint Eastwood.
9The inspiration for James Caan’s character in The Godfather came from Don Rickles. Caan mentioned that he was thinking about his friend Don Rickles and then he started laughing like him.
10The personality of Tyler Perry’s Madea is basically a mix of two people: his aunt and his mom. Perry explained, “My mother is the wisdom of Madea, but my aunt Mayola, that’s her wig, that’s her voice, that’s her gun in the purse.”
11Robert Pattinson took inspiration for hisGood Timecharacter from a guy who lived in a hole in Queens. The hole was next to a family house, and this guy would often sneak into the daughter’s bedroom.
12The character of Korg from Thor: Ragnarok is based on Polynesian bouncers that Director Taika Waititi came across in New Zealand. He told those nightclub bouncers were big and burly but had super-soft voices.
13Paul Lieberstein’sThe Officecharacter was based on one of his friends. His friend had gathered enough money to live in Hawaii without working and just surf all day.
14Judge Gen inThe Good Placewas modeled on Ruth Bader. Even her robe was based on the one that Bader wore. Maya Rudolph said it was an homage to an iconic human being.
15Dwayne Johnson’s Moana character was based on one of his family members. Jonhson explained in a tweet that his character Maui was partly inspired by his late grandfather, High Chief Peter Maivia of Samoa.
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Muneer is an Indian writer at FandomWire who plans to visit all countries in this world to eat the food on their streets. Obsessed with joggers, he sings and plays the strings too.
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