25 Movie Portrayals of Real People That Were Way Off the Mark

When someone gives an unfavorable critique of a portrayal, it’s easy to think that it was all the actor’s fault. In some cases that’s true, but sometimes the actor does a great job with the highly inaccurate material they were given. Like, it’s not really an actor’s place to stroll onto the set and say, “Hey guys, you need to change this entire script to be more historically accurate!” Seems like a fireable offense right there.

However these truth-to-movie disconnects happened, and real people weren’t properly portrayed — and some were furious about it.