An Irish writer Samuel Beckett looks like a 21st century version of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
In fact, we really think that this theater director is more of a Muhammad Ali Jinnah lookalike than even Christopher Lee, the man who essayed the role in the film Jinnah.
Their style aesthetic is soo similar. They both cut a clean minimalist look, and stick to classics like turtle necks and blazers.
Samuel Beckett had glasses rather than a monocle. After all, he was born in the early 1900s, unlike Jinnah who was a 1870s man.
The Muhammad Ali Jinnah lookalike even has a love for tobacco…. given the lit cigarette in Beckett’s hand.
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Though both are literary folk at their heart, the Irishman also happens to be quite a sportsman as well.
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You can’t tell it from these black and white photos, but apparently Beckett has icy-blue eyes as opposed to Jinnah’s warm brown. Their hairstyles look similar though. They both had dark hair and chiseled faces, both on the leaner side.
Sam Beckett as Jinnah?
This raises the question of why wasn’t this theater director cast as the Quaid in the biopic film?
Coincidentally this Irish novelist and playwright died at the age of 82, in 1989. While the film Jinnah was released in 1998.
English actor Christopher Lee played the role of Quaid-e-Azam in the film Jinnah when he was 72. Interestingly when Muhammad Ali Jinnah died he was also 72 years old.
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Christopher Lee died earlier in 2015 at the age of 92. He’s famed for his roles of Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), and Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones.
He was also in the cult classics Moulin Rouge, and the 1958 Dracula.
How shocking or surprising is this. Samuel Beckett looks like Jinnah little bit. If Beckett could had been an actor, the film industry could had chosen him to play the role of Jinnah in film.
There should had been a TV series of Jinnah in which Samuel Beckett could had become Jinnah. Beckett as Jinnah in TV series and Christopher Lee as Jinnah in film.
“An Irish writer”?? Samuel Beckett is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He’s not just “some random Irish writer.” It’s like saying “this Pakistani poet named Iqbal looks a lot like Walter Benjamin.” Its disrespectful to the person being compared.
And eww no, No white person should play Jinnah. I’m sure there are plenty of competent Desi actors with crisp English accents (either in the subcontinent or in Britain) who could play him. Enough of the whitewashing and inferiority complexes.