Jamie Costa's 'uncanny' Robin Williams impersonation leaves fans hungry for biopic
(NEXSTAR) — An “uncanny” perception of Robin Williams has people today on the net floored.
“Oh my goodness! This gave me goosebumps!” one particular particular person posted on Twitter. “There may well have also been some tears.”
In a five-minute video clip shared Monday on YouTube, actor Jamie Costa performs the function of the late Williams in a scene in which he finds out his buddy, comedian John Belushi, has died. The scene is performed out in 1982 on the established of “Mork and Mindy,” which starred Williams as the alien Mork.
In the clip, titled “ROBIN Test Footage Scene,” Pam Dawber, played by Sarah Murphree, interrupts Williams as he practices his lines to convey to him of Belushi’s death.
Belushi, star of “Blues Brothers,” died at 33 of a cocaine and heroin overdose in 1982.
Comic Scott Nevins wrote on Twitter that the impersonation is “unbelievable.” He stated Costa experienced earlier acquired notoriety for “his uncanny” Williams perception.
The clip prompted social media speculation about a hitherto not known biopic about Williams, who died at 63 of an clear suicide in 2014.
PopCulture Uncovered tweeted that for casting, Hollywood would need to have to search no further more than Costa to perform Williams, indicating “you’ll agree that the job is intended to be his.”
An individual else tweeted: “This is certainly amazing!!! I felt like I was seeing Robin. Jamie captures every single facet of him completely.”
And nonetheless another commented on the online video: “It truly is one particular issue to resemble a person but it’s how much he appears like him and has his mannerisms and expressions down that is so freaking amazing. I hope this movie receives produced. I however sense his reduction.”
