pulse: Or Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson.

I should have been clearer about one point because you went in a different direction... There's a difference between an actor of one ethnicity wearing makeup to play an character of another ethnicity (which is nowadays frowned upon, but speaking of John Wayne few and far between were Native Americans in the western movies actually played by Native Americans back in the day), including my stated caviat of people in the right grouping yet adjacent to a real person's appearance, it seems -and- today, nowadays, the trend of retelling a story but altering the characters' embodiments, such as Jaden Smith playing Daniel-san in The Karate Kid, which is what the post was depicting but erroniously about a nonfictional character.