You know I really think you get it. These morons who consider themselves artists and act just for the admiration of each other, are generally uneducated, cloistered people, who somehow made a lot of money because they pretend. They take roles where they do character study, or brief historical and subject studies, at which point they think they are experts. Didnt Morgan pretend he was a President once, so there you go.
Yes, and that was another movie I did not pay to see.
I think it an error to think he is tupid. Memorizing lines is not a low IQ function. He is however a lost liberal.