Trivia / Me and Orson Welles

• Billing Displacement: Zac Efron, who only plays the main character, gets second billing below Christian McKay on the British posters and Claire Danes on the American ones.
• Dawson Casting: Christian McKay was 35 portraying the 21-year-old Welles, but it is somewhat justified in that Welles really did read much older than he was. This is him at 24.
• Fake American: British Christian McKay as the American Orson Welles.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: The movie premiered to terrific reviews at the Toronto Film Festival, but was unable to secure any US distribution. It ended up sitting on the shelf for more than a year before it was finally given a piss-poor release in November 2009. Some people think the terrible release situation was what robbed Christian McKay of an Oscar nomination.

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