Kennedy And Lincoln

Out and about earlier this month promoting her 2 holiday films War Horse and The Adventures of Tintin producer Kathleen Kennedy commented on that photo from Steven Spielberg's Lincoln biopic with star Daniel Day-Lewis

Kennedy told The Playlist

"That's not actually his Lincoln beard, that's just what he looks like right now. He wasn't in hair, makeup, wardrobe, or anything when that picture was taken. He had just gone out that evening, he was just having dinner, and someone snapped a photo of him. But doesn't he look like Lincoln in blue jeans? I had friends who called me going, 'Oh my God, oh my God, it looks like Lincoln!' It's pretty remarkable when you look at that photo, and you say, 'Oh my God, he really embodies Lincoln,' because he does"

Kennedy confirmed that with the film focusing on the last few months of Lincoln's life and the pushing of the Thirteenth Amendment.through Congress, there will be "no war scenes, we're not doing the Civil War."

Based on the best-selling book, Team of Rivals: by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the screenplay was penned by award winning writer Tony Kushner.

Day-Lewis will play Abraham Lincoln, While Academy Award winner Sally Field will star as Mary Todd Lincoln, wife to the 16th President of the United States.

The great cast for this epic biopic also includes Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, David StrathairnJohn Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson Bruce McGill Joseph Cross David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, Walton Goggins Lee Pace Jackie Earle Haley David Oyelowo  Jared Harris and David Warshofsky

The film hits theaters after next year's election in the US