Boardwalk Empire/Trivia
- Dawson Casting:
- 37 year old Stephen Graham as 21 year old Al Capone.
- Also, 30-year-old Michael Pitt as 23-year-old Jimmy Darmody.
- Anatol Yusef as Meyer Lansky. No way is he 18.
- 62 year-old Greg Antonacci as 38 year-old Johnny Torrio.
- Fake Nationality:
- The very German Eddie Kessler is played by an American actor, Anthony Laciura. The casting crew was in fact surprised when they learned that Laciura, who had made his entire introduction in a German accent, was actually an Italian-American from the Bronx.
- Fake American: Englishmen Stephen Graham, Anatol Yusef and Jack Huston as Al Capone, Meyer Lansky and Richard Harrow, respectively.
- Fake Irish: Scottish Kelly Macdonald and Englishman Charlie Cox as Margaret Rohan Schroeder and Owen Sleater. Also, Scot Tony Curran as Margaret's brother Eamon.
- Also, the French Isabelle Jeunet is played by Swiss actress Anna Katarina.
- Washington-born Jeffrey Wright plays Trinidarian gangster Valentin Narcisse.