# Interchangeable actors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218 "2012-08-21T21:37:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/41 "2012-08-22T18:29:57Z")
Katie Holmes and Sasha Grey. But maybe that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/42 "2012-08-22T18:42:58Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Katie Holmes and Sasha Grey. > > But maybe that’s just me. One had sex for money until a little while ago, and the other is just Sasha Grey? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/43 "2012-08-22T18:43:47Z")
[Lelee Sobieski and Helen Hunt](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_mss=leelee+sobieski+and+h&pq=leelee+sobieski&cp=26&gs_id=2l&xhr=t&q=leelee+sobieski+and+helen+hunt&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&biw=1506&bih=936&wrapid=tljp1345660969793041&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=OCg1UKHaMsSSiAKCyIGwBA). ---
**Author:** ![cold\_northerlies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aca169/32.png) [@cold\_northerlies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cold_northerlies)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/44 "2012-08-22T18:56:15Z")
[Leonardo di Caprio and Matt Damon](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm981113088/tt0407887). Maybe not normally, but in The Departed I was very confused for the first thirty minutes or so. ---
**Author:** ![HenryGale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b782af/32.png) [@HenryGale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HenryGale)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/45 "2012-08-22T19:45:31Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > Clive Owen and Gerard Butler. Not that I mind either (or both) of them. Totally! I can tell them apart now, but I’m still not sure which of them were in what movies from 6-7 years ago. Looking them up just now, I could have sworn it was Butler who played King Arthur. Nope.. Owen. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/46 "2012-08-22T19:52:54Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman. I came here to say this. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/47 "2012-08-22T22:27:57Z")
Ellen Barkin, Helen Hunt, Holly Hunter I can only come up with a couple ways to tell them apart. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/48 "2012-08-22T23:01:43Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Harris has never really done comedy like Jones has (in his indomitable deadpan style, natch). Harris would have never worked out well in the Men in Black movies, for example. Fair enough, I will accept that. Though now I’d like to see Ed Harris do comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Kitty\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c0e974/32.png) [@Kitty\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitty_A)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/49 "2012-08-22T23:57:45Z")
I’ve always thought that Brad Garrett could be the goofy brother of either Jeffrey Dean Morgan or Javier Bardem. Among women, for some reason I always mix up Julia Stiles and Erica Christensen. And, I don’t think Meryl Streep is homely. At all. ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/50 "2012-08-23T00:22:35Z")
Tell me this guy doesn’t remind you of Edward Norton. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cn2b575u93M/maxresdefault.jpg "DIE-NER (GET IT?) Movie Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn2b575u93M) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/51 "2012-08-23T00:33:13Z")
I think [Joshua Jackson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Jackson), from _Fringe_, is very similar to [Brian Austin Green](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Austin_Green), from _Sarah Connor Chronicles_, and [Shane West](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_West) from the new _Nikita_. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/52 "2012-08-23T11:23:37Z")
> [@cold\_northerlies](#): > > [Leonardo di Caprio and Matt Damon](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm981113088/tt0407887). > > Maybe not normally, but in The Departed I was very confused for the first thirty minutes or so. Yep, the first time I watched **The Departed** I was totally lost. Had to start over when I realized they were two different people. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/53 "2012-08-23T11:34:57Z")
I often get Emma Roberts and Emma Stone confused. Similarities in their names and ages and they do the same range of movies. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/54 "2012-08-23T12:09:20Z")
If you need a peppy redhead, either [Isla Fisher or Amy Adams](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sugexp=les%3Bcqrwrth&cp=13&gs_id=fe&xhr=t&q=isla+fisher+amy+adams&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&biw=1252&bih=548&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=5Bw2ULi4Oonm8gT0-YG4DA) will do. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/55 "2012-08-23T17:50:59Z")
I actually thought Daphne Zuniga from Spaceballs was actually Traceyt Gold from Growing Pains. They look and sound alike to me. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/56 "2012-08-23T19:11:34Z")
Isla Fisher and Amy Adams. They are obvious clones. [http://www.google.com/search?q=isla+fisher+amy+adams&hl=en&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=M382UO-2A6m4yQHo8oGQBA&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QsAQ&biw=1536&bih=695](http://www.google.com/search?q=isla+fisher+amy+adams&hl=en&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=M382UO-2A6m4yQHo8oGQBA&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QsAQ&biw=1536&bih=695) I saw an interview with, I think, Amy Adams, where she talked about the similarities. She just laughed and said something like; If you liked the acting, it was me. If you didn’t, it was her. Sorry, **Spoke** , I didn’t see your post! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/57 "2012-08-23T19:27:19Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > Isla Fisher and Amy Adams. > > They are obvious clones. Also [Elizabeth Banks](http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/elizabeth-banks-totally-looks-like-rachel-mcadams.jpg) and [Rachel McAdams](http://files.myopera.com/celebfan/albums/6921892/Elizabeth%20Banks%20-Rachel%20McAdams.jpg). Or is it [Rachel McAdams](http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/elizabeth-banks-totally-looks-like-rachel-mcadams.jpg) and [Elizabeth Banks](http://l.yimg.com/ea/img/-/110609/5_16v0m0e-16v0m2b.jpg?x=450&q=80&n=1&sig=QPD_88.Mzq8JVx5W_V2Ngw--)? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/58 "2012-08-23T20:17:38Z")
Maggie Wheeler (Janice from Friends) and Fran Drescher. Someone should cast them as sisters. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/59 "2012-08-23T20:50:32Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Ditto [Logan Marshall-Green (the guy in Prometheus) and Tom Hardy](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=iV4&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=rcs&q=logan+marshall-green+tom+hardy&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&biw=1600&bih=732&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=mGo0UIeVIsjRqwHfw4CgDg). I went into Prometheus unspoiled, and for about 30 minutes thought, ‘huh, didn’t know Tom Hardy was in this.’ Wait, what? I totally thought that was Tom Hardy in Prometheus until you just told me it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218/60 "2012-08-23T21:09:43Z")
It took me awhile to realize William Mapother (Another Earth) wasn’t Jeremy Renner (The Bourne Legecy, The Hurt Locker). Rachel Weisz and Carla Gugino. The late Chris Penn and Michael Rapaport. Michael Cera (Scott Pilgrim…) and Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interchangeable-actors/632218.md?page=4)