Octopus

A shape-shifting genius who became anyone but himself.

Peter Sellers was famously unable to answer who he really was without a character to hide behind — a true shape-shifter who dissolved entirely into roles like Inspector Clouseau, Dr. Strangelove, and President Merkin Muffley. His multi-layered adaptability, combined with a deeply unstable private identity, makes the octopus a perfect fit: impossibly versatile, hard to pin down, and operating with a kind of dark, mercurial intelligence. Colleagues and directors were often baffled by his transformations, and Sellers himself once confessed there was 'no me' beneath the masks.