YMMV / Resistance (2020)

• Questionable Casting: Some in Germany lamented that Matthias Schweighöfer was cast as Klaus Barbie, because he looks nothing like this Historical Domain Character for one (among other things, he's blond, while Barbie had brown hair, Phenotype Stereotype is at play), and also because it was resented as yet another risk of cliché Hollywood "Nazi" typecasting for German actors who want to make themselves a career there (Schweighöfer is more known for his comedic works with Til Schweiger at home). Schweighöfer himself weighed in about this around the time of the release of Army of the Dead and Army of Thieves, saying he preferred not to make too much "period pieces", alluding to that specific and infamous kind of typecasting for German actors.

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