DOES 'SATAN' ACTOR RESEMBLE OBAMA?

The "History Channel" is currently airing a miniseries on the holy bible; The Bible. On Sunday night, viewers got their first look at Satan. (I guess in future trivia circles a question might go like this: "In what episode of 'The Bible' did the character of 'Satan' make his first appearance?")

What struck many viewers was the more than passing resemblance to the current president of the United States of America, Barack Obama.

After noticing the headline "Does Satan actor in 'The Bible' look like Obama?" in this morning's Washington Post, I decided to visit the article. "Holy... he does look like Obama." ("And that outfit makes him look like a kind of 'Darth Obama'.")

In the role of Satan is Moroccan actor Mehdi Ouazanni; I don't know what he looks like without the makeup styling done on him in The Bible, but in this case he does certainly bare more than a passing resemblance to the 44th president of the U.S.A.

I'm a fan of Obama. Satan is not rendered in this History Channel Special the way I've always imagined him as looking. Isn't he supposed to look really mean, and evil? Here he looks more like a merchant dealer in kevas and trillium.

What I do find amusing is the fact that the miniseries' producers, Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, are denying the Doppelganger bit in their show. They are quoted as saying in the Washington Post story: "Utter nonsense."

What that tells me, if those two Uber-producers are being authentic in their reaction, is they've never been in an editing room at 3 o'clock in the morning. The similarity is obvious anyway, but when you're exhausted at such a late hour, trying to make your air-dates, you start getting loopy; seeing things you've never noticed before. One could imagine this exchange...

EDITOR
Hey, man, don't you think he looks like Obama?...

PRODUCER MARK
(giddy laugh)
That's so funny! I never noticed that before. You're right!
(beat)
Oh... no....


Washington Post story...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/does-satan-actor-in-the-bible-look-like-obama-nonsense-producers-say/2013/03/18/0b22c65c-9013-11e2-9cfd-36d6c9b5d7ad_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines