![]() ![]() We never want to skew Republican or Democrat or this is right or this is wrong. McCain talk about Patton being egotistical. It's interesting to see people who are sometimes controversial figures today giving perspective on these figures from generations ago. You talked to people like John McCain, Colin Powell, Stanley McChrystal and Dick Cheney. I remember looking at his picture and thinking, ‘I really think that guy could be Hitler.’ He embodied him so well, and then we brought in makeup and hair people and we probably worked for a week on all of it and there's a lot of prosthetics. There was a guy from “The Men Who Built America” who had a small part, but he was a really good actor. Anybody that came in, they all felt very cartoonish. We did a lot of casting, I remember our casting notice was picked up online at one point and a lot of sites were saying, “It's finally good to look like Hitler!” Woodrow Wilson, that guy apparently was at an event for Woodrow Wilson and somebody came up and said, ‘Oh my God, you look just like Woodrow Wilson!’ The hardest part to find was Hitler. Sometimes we get lucky and we get people who already know they look like these people. How do you find people who look like the younger versions of these historic figures? Or even know they look like people from a hundred years ago, like Woodrow Wilson? It's more in line with a reality show than a scripted show. It's always a big challenge to see how we're going to pull off two wars with the budgets we have. We don't have very big budgets to make these. Budget-wise, it would have been tough to film there as well as in the trench. He wasn't ordered to shave the mustache, but actually he shaved the mustache while he was in the hospital. How did you research this film? Is everything precisely accurate, or dramatized? I've also read, for example, that he was ordered to cut the mustache. And being that Hitler had it, he kind of killed that fashion. Between World War I and World War II, that was a fashion that a lot of people had. I think in actuality after World War I that was a fashion, and a lot of people did that. Was that his way of saying he was always at war? Or did he always fear a gas attack? He kept the mustache long after World War I ended. It was our favorite fact that we found out.Īlso read: Emmys: How ‘The Men Who Built America’ Compare to Steve Jobs We were doing a lot of research and when we found that story, we thought, oh right. ![]()
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