10 Actors Who "Stole" Their Performances Off Real People

3. Michael Fassbender - Prometheus

Who He Plays: David, android on the ship Prometheus Who He Really Plays: Peter O'Toole (as Lawrence of Arabia) and Greg Louganis The product of Weyland Industries, Prometheus' android David has the affected air of a British aristocrat and the physicality of a lithe athlete. It's a grand performance from Michael Fassbender in an otherwise uneven film, the realisation of an odd mixture of influences. "I decided to make him more robot-like but with human elements within", said Fassbender of David. "When you read a script, certain images or names pop up" - for Fassbender, those names were O'Toole, Louganis and Bowie. David's walk and "economy of movement" came from Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis, while the look and vocal patter was inspired by Peter O'Toole's take on Lawrence of Arabia (it's the film David's watching while he travels alone on the ship). David Bowie's Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell To Earth has also been namechecked as a source.