The original post: /r/movies by /u/schitaco on 2024-04-29 22:29:09.

I feel like I’ve seen a lot of movies/shows where actors play fictional politicians, and the audience can tell they’re being smarmy and disingenuous but the people in the movie seem completely oblivious to this. Frank Underwood comes to mind. I hate when movies and TV shows do this - treat the public in the movie as somehow way dumber than the viewing audience.

The opposite are actors who display true charisma in a role. Like you can totally understand why the people in the film would be drawn to them as politicians. Examples I thought of were:

• Meryl Streep in The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
• Broderick Crawford in All The King’s Men (1948)
• George Clooney in The Ides of March (2011)

What are some other examples of actors playing fictional politicians in a highly charismatic and believable way?