Conway... Looks 25 years old... No charisma... HORRIBLE casting.. - House of Cards (2013) Discussion

[–] Fiercesome_Fool 9 years ago

Joel Kinnaman is 36 in real life and the minimum age is 35 to be eligible for President of the United States. He is supposed to be what 39-40? He isn't that far off the age he is playing and I doubt the actor will look that much different in 3-4 years. To fault him for how young he looks is idiotic considering it isn't like he is a 22 year old playing a 39-40 year old. They wanted a young looking candidate.

I will say I agree about no charisma though and a poor casting. I had no idea who was going to be cast as the Republican opposition to Frank this season as I don't like to spoil things. When I saw him first appear I was like "Oh god, not him. Kinnaman is supposed to play off of Spacey?". Not a fan of the guy.

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[–] douces 9 years ago

I believe he says he's 36 in the flashback to 2013. So the character may be 39. I may be mixing things up and he said he's 36 in the present day though.

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[–] mgha-37042 9 years ago

Agree! His dialogue delivery was also fake and cringeworthy

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[–] joeh1777 9 years ago

The problem is we have another foreign actor trying to fake an American accent and failing. I thought Kinnaman was good in the Killing, even his accent was passable. But here, you can clearly tell he is struggling. No Governor of New York would ever sound like that.

The funny thing is they let the actress playing his wife speak in her natural British accent. Even though I saw her in a show over the summer on ABC and she did a pretty good job faking an American accent.

Speaking of that, do they ever quite explain how he met his British wife? Perhaps I missed it, but knowing American politics this would be a huge story and commented on endlessly. But it is never brought up in the show.

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[–] flashm-84381 9 years ago

I only have one episode left to watch but yea so far they havent mentioned anything about her being a foreigner which I found funny. No way you have a brit as a possible first lady and no one points it out.

I just figured that maybe they wanted to focus on other things for their limited 13 episodes rather than filling up time with obvious politics, which I'm fine with. I think where they have gone with this seasons story plot has been entertaining so far.

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[–] Jjwhiskey79 9 years ago

I find the actress playing his wife far more insufferable. The forced British accent, painfully over the top "acting"...just awful

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[–] Paul_Ke 8 years ago

I find the actress playing his wife far more insufferable. The forced British accent

The actress was born in Ireland, so I don't know if it's that forced.

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[–] johnxanderyi 9 years ago

The most unbelievable Presidential candidate since Jamie Foxx. I may be biased due to the actor's ghetto/hood talk in "The Killing" however.

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[–] sandman_exe 9 years ago

He was very bad. He felt like a replacement for Meechum then a presidential candidate

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[–] herg2006 9 years ago

I don't know why exactly, but Joel Kinnaman makes my "skin crawl".
The way he talks, the way he looks out his eyes... he crept me out in Robocop and he creeps me out in this series.
If they ever gonna make a remake of "Henry, portrait of a....'....Kinnaman is your man for the lead !

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[–] MeDigFlix 9 years ago

Nah, not 25. Conway's demeanor seems immature and inexperienced, but he looks about late 30's to me.

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[–] johnsonium 9 years ago

I partially agree. He looks young. However, he's supposed to be young and a bit naive. Also, there are real presidential candidates who look pretty young this cycle. For instance Marco Rubio.

I disagree about the charisma. He seems fine to me. I can imagine people wanting to vote for him, especially since he's a war veteran and can play up that angle.

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[–] CaptainoftheAmericas 9 years ago

He looks like he's in his 30s, not 20s.

Also I feel like he improved as the episodes progressed, but his introduction he was definitely not charismatic.

If he's supposed to be a conservative version of Obama it certainly wasn't working 

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