We like to think that Lincoln, since he was a great orator, had a powerful, booming voice, ideally a baritone voice, and we’re understandably disappointed to find this high, thin, reedy thing exiting [apologetically?] from the mouth of Daniel Day-Lewis.
It is true that Lincoln was a great orator with a voice perfectly adequate for the audiences he addressed – never more than a few thousand people at any given time. But if truth be told, Lincoln’s was pure Indiana [“Mr. Cheeeerman”] twang.
Day-Lewis got it right.
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