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From a 2011 Uncut article on David Bowie's acting career:

In 2006, director Christopher Nolan cast Bowie as the pioneering electrical engineer Nikolai Tesla in his elegant Victorian thriller, The Prestige. It's hard not to draw parallels between Tesla, the reclusive genius, and Bowie himself these days, living out semi-retirement in his New York home — after all, he has often been powerfully connected to his acting roles, inhabiting his '70s stage personae with Actor's Studio dedication. As John Lennon dryly commented, "Meeting him... you don't know which one you're talking to."

[...] It's Nolan's brilliant casting of Bowie in The Prestige that reminds you —goblins, cowboys and Prussian officers aside— how compelling a dramatic presence he can be. Bowie enjoys a spectacular entrance as Tesla, walking into shot through fearsome arcs of electromagnetic current. This is Tesla the erratic genius, pioneering in isolation on his scientific projects: time travel, anti-gravity machines, teleportation devices. Nikolai Tesla. The man who harnessed electricity. Who else are you going to get to play him?