Playing a historical figure presents a unique opportunity, as well as a challenge. One has a responsibility to very thoroughly analyze both the figure's time, and their individual persona. Revisionism is to be avoided at all cost.
If you have any questions about anything I do or reference, or are concerned I may have botched the historical time-line somewhere, please feel comfortable politely asking here, or at blazko. I am taking him from a historical fiction novel, but using the HBO play by because Monsieur Dillane is fabulous.