Okay, there's a vague resemblance between Casper Phillipson, who plays JFK in Pablo Larrain's Jackie and Andrew Dominik's Blonde, and the Real McCoy. The nose, the jawline and the eyes, to some extent, but at the same time Phillipson's eyes lack something important. In his off moments JFK's eyes had a haunted, hangdog quality -- a slightly gloomy and exhausted look that was captured by Time magazine illustrator Pietro Annigoni. There was a vibe about Kennedy in these moments that seemed to say "I'm probably not going to last into old age, and you know it as well as I." No offense to Phillipson but this grave undertone vibe is missing in his features. Gotta have that flickering awareness of death hovering.
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