“Let’s make him look like Drexl Spivey”

You’ve heard to saying, “There’s no small parts, only small actors?” Certainly true of Gary Oldman’s portrayal of Drexl Spivey, the drug dealer in True Romance (1993).

The following year Oldman played a corrupt narcotics officer in The Professional. Another superb performance. In one of the opening scenes Oldman lead a team of narcs into an apartment searching for some missing heroin. Photo below is one of the half dozen cops on the raid.

Don’t know who the actor is but that’s not important. The similarity to Drexl Spivey seems too strong to be coincidental. Was this an inside joke on Oldman?