They filmed in Morocco, didn’t they? And we’re surprised they’re casting Africans? :dubious:
I guess they look alike in the “totally looks like” meme sort of way, where you find two similarly posed headshots and skin tones. But I can’t say the resemblance is real strong one, other than a vaguely “light skinned skinny mixed race dude” one.
Spoiler alert; actors cast in fantasy show look like fantasy people. News at 11.
He’s appeared in minor roles in T.V. movies about David (1997), Jeremiah (1998), Genesis and Exodus (In the Beginning - 2000) and The Ten Commandments (2006). He’s kind of a go-to guy for looking biblically Middle Eastern, someone you might expect the people casting a T.V. version of the Bible to hire, without regard to whether he resembled any current political leader.
I’m just glad that this movies timing wasn’t worse. Imagine a Satan that looked like Nixon or Jimmy Carter instead.
I had a nightmare that they had gay sex and had a baby. :rolleyes:
Not the Devil, but Randall Flagg in The Stand comes to mind (although they made him a white guy in the movie).
Flagg isn’t black - or white, for that matter. In fact, King takes care not to describe him in any objective terms, other than “tall”.
No resemblance at all-no horns, forked tail, or trident. Plus, everybody knows the devil is red.
So he doesn’t really look like Obama, people have just been fooled by a Vulcan mind trick.
I dunno; you don’t have to squint very hard to see the resemblance.