Damian Lewis to play Toronto ex-Mayor Rob Ford in new movie
Rob Ford, the controversial former mayor of Toronto, is getting the big-screen treatment.
Damian Lewis is portraying Ford, who died in 2016, in Run This Town, a drama currently shooting in Toronto.
Kit Magazine, which published an interview with Lewis, reported the actor was being fit with a prosthetic to play the former mayor.
Many of the details remain under lock and key — IMDb doesn’t even have character names — but the film is understood to follow a reporter (Ben Platt) who attempts to expose a scandal involving a politician who doesn't play by the rules. The politician's aides, played by Nina Dobrev and Mena Massoud, try their best to handle him and keep the story suppressed. Additional cast members include Scott Speedman and Jennifer Ehle.
The politician, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed, will be the fiery Ford, and the story is told against the backdrop of the last year of his mayoral term.
The other characters in the movie are fictitious.
Ford was mayor from 2010 to 2014 but had already established a history of public intoxication and substance abuse. During his years as mayor, video surfaced of him smoking crack cocaine; he was accused of sexual assault and argued publicly with staff while intoxicated. He died in 2016 at the age of 46.
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Good casting.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 25, 2018 4:24 PM
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Damian Lewis and Jennifer Ehle in a movie about Rob Ford? What a waste.
I am sick of Hollywood and corporate media-entertainment feeding us a steady diet of the grotesque and or violent
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 11, 2018 5:51 AM
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He’s half his size. Ford should be played by Kevin James.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 11, 2018 6:00 AM
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It is only natural Ford would be played by a very pale hardbody.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 11, 2018 6:15 AM
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Too bad chris Farley is no longer with us. He was born to pay Rob Ford
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 11, 2018 7:04 AM
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Pue, puke, puke!!!!!!!!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 11, 2018 7:12 AM
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This is my Oscar bid, you assholes, don't fuck it up for me!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 11, 2018 10:35 AM
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| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 25, 2018 2:33 PM
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R7 That's some pretty shitty makeup and prosthetic work. Looks more like Fat Bastard than Rob Ford.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 25, 2018 2:46 PM
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and we want to see this why?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 25, 2018 3:01 PM
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Because we need to understand this phenomenon/nightmare better so we don't repeat it over and over again.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 25, 2018 3:04 PM
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I hear SJWs are angry that Ben Platt is playing a reporter in this movie instead of a woman. God forbid a gay actor play a major character in a movie in 2018. It's not like every single movie since the beginning of time casts women or something.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 25, 2018 3:09 PM
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I can’t watch Damian Lewis - there’s something about him that is so gross.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 25, 2018 3:35 PM
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Fatsuit? Check! Canadian accent? Check! Meth-induced facial tics? Check!
Now he's just one forceful scene away from a guaranteed Oscar win.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 25, 2018 4:07 PM
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Lol. Why would you put a hardbody in fat prosthetics when you already have tubbo Ben Platt in the cast list???
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 25, 2018 4:24 PM
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