Breaking Baz @ Cannes: First Look At Billy Zane Channeling Marlon Brando In ‘Waltzing With Brando’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Billy Zane portrays Marlon Brando in the upcoming film Waltzing With Brando on set in the late 1960s and early ’70s when Brando purchased the private atoll Tetiaroa in the South Pacific.
It was a time when Brando needed to keep working to fund the environmental projects that he and architect Bernard Judge were undertaking on the island. “When they called him about the gangster movie, he did it to fund what they were trying to create on Tetiaroa,” said Zane, referring to what would become The Godfather directed by Frances Ford Coppola.
Waltzing With Brando, directed by Bill Fishman, re-creates moments from two of Brando’s landmark pictures: The Godfather and Last Tango In Paris.
The film’s based on the memoir Judge penned called Waltzing with Brando: Planning a Paradise in Tahiti. The images featuring Zane as Brando in those pictures show an uncanny resemblance to the real Brando, so much so that for an instance I thought they were stills from the original films.
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