# Glenn Close vs. Meryl Streep **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-close-vs-meryl-streep/529582 "2010-02-19T02:46:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-close-vs-meryl-streep/529582/21 "2010-02-19T23:21:59Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Don’t even get me started on the whole Kate Winslett/Cate Blanchett business. Kate Winslet looks more to me like Sophia Myles; Cate Blanchett, I confuse with Tilda Swinton (even though they look very dissimilar). ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-close-vs-meryl-streep/529582/22 "2010-02-19T23:48:40Z")
Glenn Close and Meryl Streep are neither homely nor interchangeable. Glenn Close is my favorite actress, and Meryl Streep is arguably the greatest actress of her generation, and they bring entirely different qualities to their roles. On the other hand, while Brad Pitt and Matt Damon are both very pretty, they are pretty much interchangeable in my mind. Brad frequently has more facial hair. Heh. Apparently [New York Magazine](http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/09/brad_pitt_matt_damon_interchan.html) agrees with me. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-close-vs-meryl-streep/529582/23 "2010-02-20T00:08:20Z")
I used to have a hard time with Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal. I heard that Gyllenhaal was considered as a replacement for Maguire when it looked like Maguire would be unable to shoot _Spider-Man 2_, and I don’t know that I’d have noticed the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-close-vs-meryl-streep/529582/24 "2010-02-20T00:56:51Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Glenn Close and Meryl Streep are neither homely nor interchangeable. Glenn Close is my favorite actress, and Meryl Streep is arguably the greatest actress of her generation, and they bring entirely different qualities to their roles. > > On the other hand, while Brad Pitt and Matt Damon are both very pretty, they are pretty much interchangeable in my mind. Brad frequently has more facial hair. > > Heh. Apparently [New York Magazine](http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/09/brad_pitt_matt_damon_interchan.html) agrees with me. I guess that’s what is great about opinions: everyone’s is different. I find Matt Damon and Brad Pitt vastly different: Pitt is a great actor with incredible range, while I think Damon has all the charisma of a sock puppet! Two others I find pretty much interchangeable: Tom Sizemore and Michael Madsen. And given Sizemore’s penchant for spending time behind bars, I guess it’s a good thing that Madsen can cover his roles…TRM ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-close-vs-meryl-streep/529582/25 "2010-02-20T01:00:54Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > No. > > We don’t. > > Caged naked mud-wrestling death-match! Two MILFs enter, one MILF leaves! 😃 Shouldn’t it be “GILF” at this point? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-close-vs-meryl-streep/529582/26 "2010-02-20T02:14:12Z")
Matt Damon & Leonardo DiCaprio. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-close-vs-meryl-streep/529582/27 "2010-02-20T02:22:01Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Matt Damon & Leonardo DiCaprio. No, it’s Matt Damon and Mark Wahlburg ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-close-vs-meryl-streep/529582/28 "2010-02-20T03:07:04Z")
Pairs (or more) of actors that I often confused: [ol] [li]Elizabeth McGovern / Elizabeth Perkins - aided by the fact that they both starred with Kevin Bacon.[/li][li]Dustin Hoffman / Al Pacino / Robert DeNiro - at least in the 1970’s[/li][li]Michael Madsen / Tom Sizemore[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-close-vs-meryl-streep/529582/29 "2010-02-20T03:27:23Z")
> [@phreesh](#): > > What about Bill Paxton/Bill Pulman? Although Paxton has done some pretty unique work on Big Love > > Or the ones I STILL can’t keep apart - Dermot Mulroney and Dylan McDermott I had trouble keeping Pullman & Paxton straight in my mind for years, until I noticed that Pullman plays the dufus, while Paxton plays the jackass. Is Denholm Elliot the English Robert Vaughn? Or is Robert Vaughn the American Denholm Elliott? Kiera Knightley and Natalie Portman. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-close-vs-meryl-streep/529582.md?page=1)