When Christopher Nolan was casting “The Prestige,” there was only one person he had in mind for the role of Nikola Tesla, based on the real-life inventor.
David Bowie took some convincing, but he eventually agreed to play Tesla — which is a good thing, since Nolan didn’t have a backup plan in place for what to do without him.Early in his music career, Bowie had cultivated stage personas like the Thin White Duke and the glam-rock Ziggy Stardust, so he already had acting experience of a sort even before he starred in his first major theatrical film role in “The Man Who Fell…The post Christopher Nolan Had No Plan B For David Bowie Turning Down The Prestige appeared first on /Film.
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