When Kevin Spacey was preparing to play ruthless House majority whip Frank Underwood on House of Cards, he turned to then-actual House majority whip Kevin McCarthy. The Bakersfield, California, Republican vaulted into that leadership job after a record-fast four years in Congress, and now the 49-year-old moves up to the No. 2 spot in the House - majority leader - on Friday. But how much does he resemble Spacey's fictional vote-wrangling whip, Frank Underwood? (Aside from the murder, we mean.) For one thing, you can sometimes hear McCarthy's words coming out of Underwood's mouth. Before shooting started, Spacey shadowed McCarthy on...
- 7/31/2014
- by Sandra Sobieraj-Westfall
- PEOPLE.com
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