From yesterday's New York Times, an article by Ed Leibowitz on actors who play historical figures.
Leibowitz focuses mostly on physical resemblance and voice pattern, but it's a larger question for historical fiction, and one that no doubt will recur. (And make no mistake, biopics are historical fiction. They dramatize rather than report.) How true do you stay to people who really existed? Do you report details faithfully, or change those things you need to to make a story more interesting? Do you glamorize your lead character, or try to make them seem as real as possible? And which of those requires the most invention?
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