Over nearly eight hundred episodes, he's been played by eleven different actors.
This is the story of a black gay man told in three chapters by three different actors, set in director Barry Jenkin's home town of Miami.
The movie faces off two different Brians, played by two different actors: rather in the way Todd Haynes's I'm Not There (2007) – co-written by Moverman – had a string of different people to play Bob Dylan.
Dev Patel, who plays the 18-year-old Jamal (the three leads are each portrayed by three different actors, aged seven, 13 and 18) was the sole British cast member.
Although Ray is a loving father to Jason (well played by two different actors as a boy of different ages), it is all he can do to keep his job installing carpeting and air-conditioning.
His latest film, I'm Not There, is a meditation on the life and legends of Bob Dylan, with the man himself played by six different actors, including Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett.
I admit to having been frequently lost in the film, in which Mailer is reincarnated three times (played by three different actors), while his soul is incarnated as three classic American cars: a 1967 Chrysler Imperial, a gold '79 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am and a 2001 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor.
"Click" more or less follows the usual template: Mr. Sandler stars as Michael Newman, an up-and-coming architect with a pert, pretty wife, Donna Kate Beckinsalee), and two button-cute young children, Ben and Samantha, each of whom is played by three different actors, for reasons that will soon become clear.
Abandoning the lush and stately romanticism of most earlier filmed versions (like William Wyler's 1939 swoon fest, with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier as Cathy and Heathcliff), Ms. Arnold's "Wuthering Heights," with the screen's first black Heathcliff (played by two different actors), emphasizes mud, misery and savage, inarticulate feelings.
