Vin Diesel and The Rock.
Gerard Butler and Clive Owen
Amy Adams and Isla Fisher
Lance Reddick and Idris Elba
Sarah Hyland and Mila Kunis
Elisabeth Shue and Elizabeth Banks
Yeah, that’s actually become A Thing: Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard Prove Once and for All They Are Not the Same Person | Vanity Fair
I saw 36 Hours when it came out in 1965. For years, I thought the main Nazi was played by Arthur Hill. Imagine my surprise 50 years later to find the actor was actually Rod Taylor!
Watching shows like ***Columbo ***back in the '70s, I always used to confuse Patrick O’Neal and Peter Lawford.
There was a guy back in the '60s and '70s who used to do “… And it costs no more!” types of commercials and was a ringer for perennial game show host/panelist Bill Cullen. I don’t think I ever found out what his name was.
Jennifer Garner and Jennifer Connelly.
Lance Henrickson (Millenium, Bishop from Alien) and Tobin Bell (Saw)
Other than the “English brunette” part, I just can’t see it. For one thing, completely different body types. Both gorgeous, regardless.
Musicians rather than actors, but…
I was sure Leon Redbone was Frank Zappa playing a gag on us (a la Andy Kaufman with his “Tony Clifton” character). Then Frank had to spoil the joke by dying sixteen years before Leon. Some people…
Only one of this pair is an actress, but I thought a lesson that any party should have learned from the 2008 presidential election was that you should never nominate someone who’s a dead ringer for a comedian who can parody them on TV during the election season. Almost immediately after Sarah Palin was chosen as the Republican vice-presidential nominee, well before the first Saturday Night Live sketch about her, I heard people talking about how much she looked like Tina Fey. The only difference was a change in the glasses.
Fairly easy, IMHO. One of them’s one of the most beautiful, talented women in movies, and the other is Opie’s kid.
You seem to have a more discerning eye than even they do.
It’s the blue eyes.
They’re both in The Towering Inferno, which proves they’re not the same person.
But to me, they look nothing alike.
Drummer Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili peppers looks a lot like Will Ferrell
Without reading the whole thread…
Albert Finney and Brian Cox are either Doppelgangers or twins separated at birth, and you can’t convince me otherwise
I used to have the same problem (and I had completely forgotten about it until now). I think it was perhaps enhanced by two common acting techniques: first the pensive look to their right (toward the left of the screen for the audience) with a look combining contemplation, confusion, and wonder, and second a reaction shot that is so pronounced it is almost a double take (but really isn’t a double take at all). The second one used no dialog that I ever recall, but it is the bases of the term: “You are really gonna take it there?” I couldn’t tell you a single example of either of them doing it at a certain time in a certain movie – but I can picture them both doing it on screen and in different wardrobe (multiple times). The first look could be: “what do you REALLY mean?, how should I handle this?, or if I don’t pull a rabbit out of my metaphorical hat- bad bad things are gonna happen”.
I have the distinct impression of watching both men think right before my eyes. Plus of course, the blue eyes thing.
I don’t know exactly what it is about them, but Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon totally look the alike to me, or they did when they were younger. It made The Departed very difficult to follow as I kept getting their characters mixed up.
As far as people with similar sounding names goes, I used to always confuse Jack Nicholson (the actor) with Jack Nicklaus (the golfer). Actually I had to Google them just now to make I had it right.
I was sad to hear that the actress who played the Sheriff in the movie Fargo became the public face of the recent college admissions cheating scandal. I knew it was the same person because she must have met her husband on the set of the movie.
It was only last week that I realized Felicity Huffman and Frances McDormand are not the same individual.
There is always people confusing Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Javier Bardem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dean_Morgan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Bardem
And from the WWE there is John Cena and Darren Young
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-connection-between-Darren-Young-and-John-Cena
No one’s ever seen Lee Horsley and James Garner together.
I mentioned in some other thread awhile back that I saw John Cena in a promo for something on Nickelodeon where he was playing multiple characters, and it struck me that he * literally * looks like Jim Varney on steroids.
As I mentioned in the Rutger Hauer thread, I used to get him and Wings Hauser mixed up. Not only are the names somewhat similar, the kind of look alike. After a while I stopped because Wings totally disappeared from the landscape.
Kit Harrington and Christopher Abbott.