What was the name of Baird Whitlock's character in the meta-movie in Hail, Caesar?
What was the name of Baird Whitlock's character in the meta-movie in Hail, Caesar!? The reason I ask is I just saw Timur Bekmambetov's Ben-Hur and I was trying to recall if Cloony's character in the the Coen Bros' meta-movie was the same as the centurion in Ben-Hur. (The Coens seemed partly to be drawing on the classic Ben-Hur for their meta movie.)
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Autolycus Antoninus
From IMDB:
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) In "Hail, Caesar: A Tale of the Christ" Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) plays Autolycus Antoninus. In the Coen Brothers' earlier movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou", which is loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, George Clooney plays Ulysses Everett McGill. In Greek mythology Autolycus was Ulysses' grandfather.
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Who is Baird Whitlock based on?
Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) Clooney liked the idea of Baird being inspired a little by Charlton Heston's Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments roles, though the Coens also saw the character as similar to Robert Taylor's Roman general in Quo Vadis.Is Hail Caesar Based on a true story?
It is a fictional story that follows the real-life fixer Eddie Mannix (Brolin) working in the Hollywood film industry in the 1950s, trying to discover what happened to a star actor during the filming of a biblical epic.What was the point of Hail Caesar?
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line. This movie follows a day in the life of Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a Hollywood fixer for Capitol Pictures in the 1950s, who cleans up and solves problems for big names and stars in the industry.Who said all Hail Caesar?
Quote by Suetonius: \u201cHail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute...\u201dHail, Caesar! - Extended Clip \
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