From iwatchstuff, In a casting move even more shocking than Forrest Whitaker as Idi Amin, Morgan Freeman will play Nelson Mandela in the upcoming movie adaptation of The Human Factor.'Pic is set after the fall of apartheid, when South Africa was host to the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Mandela was in his first term as South African president, and he used the event as a way to end decades of mistrust and hatred between whites and blacks.'
It's about as obvious a casting choice as has ever been made. As logical as Howard Stern playing Joey Ramone, Will Smith playing Robert Horry, Jerry Bruckheimer playing a big pile of diarrhea, or Brad Pitt playing me (he'd have to gain about 20 pounds of lean muscle, but actors are good at that stuff.)
On another note, Ronald Reagan got to be president after being in a movie with a chimp. Arnold Schwartzenegger got to be governor after blowing stuff up and screaming "AUUUAUUUAUUUGGHHH!". Meanwhile, Morgan Freeman has being playing deities, presidents, leaders, mentors, and narrators for the last 30 years. If he goes into politics, we may see a dictator for life. Americans are stupid like that.
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I would vote for Easy Reader any day of the week. Unless he picked a Celine Dion song as his campaign song.
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