Stephen Rea vs. Philippe Peythieu

A couple of days ago, I watched the film V for Vendetta, with Natalie Portman (who played Padmé in Star Wars), Hugo Weaving (who played Agent Smith in Matrix and Elrond in The Lord of the Rings, Stephen Fry (who played Gabriel in The Dead) and John Hurt (who played Ollivander in the first Harry Potter), among others. The film was great: a good plot (a rebellion against an insidious dictatorship in Britain) played by talented actors.

Something struck me: the resemblance between another leading actor, Stephen Rea, and the man that dubs him in the French version, Philippe Peythieu. I've already told you a little bit about Philippe Peythieu: he is, among other, "the" French voice of Dany DeVito (unfortunately not in all of his films; his best part was in Batman Returns as Penguin), of Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone, and of Homer Simpson, Abraham Simpson and Otto Bus in The Simpsons. Recently, we could hear him as Cicero in Rome, the English series about the Old Rome. As you can see, sometimes, the "directeur artistique" (i.e. the person in charge of directing dubbing comedians) of a dubbing chooses the comedian because he looks like the original actor, and not because his/her voice resembles the actor's.

A funny anecdote, to conclude with: Philippe Peythieu is Véronique Augereau's husband. If you wonder who she is, I'd say that she's a dubbing comedian too. What's special about it, is that she actually dubs… Marge Simpson! It's not a joke! Check this out:

Simpson dans Grand Ecran
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