# Are They All The Same Guy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571 "2014-04-21T00:40:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/1 "2014-04-21T00:40:53Z")
Wolverine’s Hugh Jackman [![](http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/19300000/Hugh-Jackman-hugh-jackman-19323014-1280-1024.jpg) ](http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/19300000/Hugh-Jackman-hugh-jackman-19323014-1280-1024.jpg) Top Gear’s Richard Hammond [http://www.interviewhub.co.uk/previews/photo/9496-preview-9496-richard-hammond-6567.jpg](http://www.interviewhub.co.uk/previews/photo/9496-preview-9496-richard-hammond-6567.jpg) Doctor Who’s David Tennant [![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g_hiAb4R08M/UTyjnKlUC4I/AAAAAAAEAcw/NVl-PkMQYc4/s1600/David_Tennant_Photo3.jpg) ](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g_hiAb4R08M/UTyjnKlUC4I/AAAAAAAEAcw/NVl-PkMQYc4/s1600/David_Tennant_Photo3.jpg) The Full Monty’s Robert Carlyle > **[Picture of Robert Carlyle](https://www.listal.com/viewimage/3590275h)** > > Picture of Robert Carlyle ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/2 "2014-04-21T00:43:36Z")
Two eyes, two ears, one mouth - it all checks out! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/3 "2014-04-21T03:14:15Z")
Only the first two look at all similar to me. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/4 "2014-04-21T03:18:24Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Only the first two look at all similar to me. And even then, I suspect it’s more the camera angle than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/5 "2014-04-21T06:42:42Z")
I am usually bad with distinguishing faces but these guys look nothing alike to me, except for maybe hair and eye color on a couple of them. However, I would be willing to do further research and more closely examine Jackman and Tennant at the same time, for science and all, if that could be arranged. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/6 "2014-04-21T07:42:41Z")
That was from Hugh Jackman’s audition for _Top Gear - The Action Movie_. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/7 "2014-04-21T11:22:19Z")
Similar bone structure. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/8 "2014-04-21T11:27:20Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > Similar bone structure. Apart from Carlyle. He’s certainly the outlier in this grouping. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/9 "2014-04-21T16:31:12Z")
Pretty sure that Richard Hammond is separate from the others; haven’t the others all been on Top Gear at one time or another? ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/10 "2014-04-21T16:38:17Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > That was from Hugh Jackman’s audition for _Top Gear - The Action Movie_. Are you sure you’re not thinking of Richard Hammond’s audition for Wolverine - The Kindergarten Years? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/11 "2014-04-21T20:49:48Z")
Throwing in with the people who can see a resemblance between Jackman and Hammond, but can’t see the other two in them. (Well, maybe Carlyle could be mistaken for their brother…in a darkened room…from a distance.) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/12 "2014-04-21T23:51:59Z")
They are all different guys, but they do have to work out whose week it is to use the heavy-lidded warm brown eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/13 "2014-04-22T07:24:37Z")
I’ve always said Tennant is just a tall skinny Hammond. And MY Doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/14 "2014-04-22T09:40:27Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I am usually bad with distinguishing faces but these guys look nothing alike to me, except for maybe hair and eye color on a couple of them. However, I would be willing to do further research and more closely examine Jackman and Tennant at the same time, for science and all, if that could be arranged. I’ll come help. Make it a double blind, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/15 "2014-04-22T12:06:56Z")
Actors keep themselves fit…and generally on the skinny and short side … less than 5’10" as a rule. and are selected for having an actractive, smart face… the proper smile, the proper chin, the proper nose… Hammond has distinctive eyes. One has lesser eye brow… Yes men with kind of thick (or bushy hair cut) brown hair are easy to mistake. there’s many of them. the average… So why attractive ? thats the theory - that average is attractive. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/16 "2014-04-22T14:55:29Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Pretty sure that Richard Hammond is separate from the others; haven’t the others all been on Top Gear at one time or another? Hugh Jackman and Doctor Who were as part of “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car”. Not so sure about Robert Carlyle. I know he’s been mentioned but I’m not sure he ever made the show. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/17 "2014-04-22T17:48:56Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > That was from Hugh Jackman’s audition for _Top Gear - The Action Movie_. Top Gear UK is nothing BUT an action movie - driving through terrorist held areas of the Middle East, riding crowded trains in Vietnam, Dabbawaling in downtown Mumbai India, racing through supermarkets (careful not to damage the Pot Noodles), setting caravans on fire, finding yet another source of the Nile. Although to be fair, the past series (21) featured a very sedate challenge with the presenters taking 3 hot hatchbacks for a leisurely, quiet drive - from Sebastopol in the Crimera to Keiv, Ukraine and places north (of course, this was a little before Putin took a look at a map and said hmmm…) ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-all-the-same-guy/686571/18 "2014-04-23T02:03:30Z")
The picture of Jackman from the middle of the nose up looks like a young Bruce Springsteen.