# American Presidents/bit-movie actors

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-presidents-bit-movie-actors/536143>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 14, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-presidents-bit-movie-actors/536143 "2010-04-14T23:47:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-presidents-bit-movie-actors/536143/1 "2010-04-14T23:47:14Z")

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So me and a couple of friends are watching a cheap gangster rental when two of us jump out of our chairs at [0:20](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRX2JmuTF2c) into this scene…

:eek: WTF!!! 😃

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-presidents-bit-movie-actors/536143/2 "2010-04-15T00:08:59Z")

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Yet another black guy who looks nothing like Obama.:rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-presidents-bit-movie-actors/536143/3 "2010-04-15T00:57:55Z")

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Eh, I see a passing resemblance.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-presidents-bit-movie-actors/536143/4 "2010-04-15T02:35:07Z")

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My God it’s uncanny! How’d they even get Carter’s phone number?

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-presidents-bit-movie-actors/536143/5 "2010-04-15T02:40:39Z")

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The guy on the far left (I await your puns) does look a bit like a young Obama. [Compare to this picture from when he was at Harvard Law.](http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/barack-obama.htm/printable)

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-presidents-bit-movie-actors/536143/6 "2010-04-15T02:45:34Z")

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Well, [his dad](http://www.kansasprairie.net/kansasprairieblog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/copy-of-28585925.jpg)played [Roger](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zGnH6HWaAi0/SwmjLXVapWI/AAAAAAAAEDg/yGGZKvozFGU/s400/whats_happening.JPG)on What’s Happening?, so I guess he got into the business that way.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-presidents-bit-movie-actors/536143/7 "2010-04-15T03:01:26Z")

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I might as well use this thread once again to lobby for [Harry Lennix to star in the inevitable cheesy Obama movie](http://dailydoppel.blogspot.com/2007/08/barack-obama-harry-j-lennix.html) [Not my blog, by the way.] As much as Will Smith might want to play Obama - [and Obama would like to be played by someone as suave as The Fresh Price](http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/people/813369,obamamovies022608.article) - Lennix is a better fit.