Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Jones with the black hair, pot belly, tinted shades and bellowing voice? Not to mention the ravenous sexual appetite. Muttering into the microphone about revolutionary suicide as over 900 people (more than two-thirds African American) start sipping the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid? Good heavens, Jesus wept. Black as night, black as coal.
All I can say is, Leo sure likes to play flamboyant ogres from time to time. This plus Killers of the Flower Moon and Clint’s J. Edgar…he really likes to stir that perverse and creepy pot. The thought of all those dead bodies (918 commune members, including 304 children) in the baking Guayana heat. A meaty role, but talk about a madman surrounded by the furies..
Does anyone recall Powers Boothe‘s performance as Jones in 1980’s Guyana Tragedy?
