Jared Harris is going to be playing Ulysses S. Grant in Spielberg’s Lincoln, according to Empire. I’m not really familiar with Harris. Apparently he’s in Mad Men, a show I’ve never watched.
I’ve always said that if somebody put me in charge of casting a Civil War movie and gave me an unlimited budget, I’d want Russell Crowe to play Grant. He’s a dead ringer.
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If you’re going to cast an A-list actor like Crowe, though, it would probably be in a starring role, meaning you’d need some Grant-centric subject matter. So who’s up for a Shiloh movie?
