# Let's cast SDMB: The Motion Picture (or, who do you look like?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431 "2006-04-05T17:05:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/81 "2006-04-06T02:42:22Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > …snip… > [http://www.thenurseslounge.net/albums/Graduation/Liberal\_001.thumb.jpg](http://www.thenurseslounge.net/albums/Graduation/Liberal_001.thumb.jpg) > > I’m sorry-it has just occured to me that I have no idea how to fix that coding. Could someone be so kind? (do I put brackets around it or what? If I don’t do it every day, I lose the skill-how sad is that?) > > Thank you, nice person, whoever you are… It worked fine, you can just copy any hyperlink from your address bar and paste it into the Reply to Thread box and VBulletin does the coding for you. Very easy. Jim ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/82 "2006-04-06T02:42:55Z")
Well, I say [Brett Butler](http://www.oxygen.com/Press/Programming/GraceUnderFire/images/Brett-Butler-GUF-2.jpg)would be just about right with improbably red hair and dark brown contacts. It’s mostly her rubber face and goofy looks that remind me of myself. Oh, we’re talking post boob job Brett, BTW… 😛 SO, on the other hand insists on either Meryl Streep or Kathleen Turner “in her prime.” Bless the near sighted dear, no wonder I keep him around… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/83 "2006-04-06T02:50:13Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > [http://www.thenurseslounge.net/albums/Graduation/Liberal\_001.thumb.jpg](http://www.thenurseslounge.net/albums/Graduation/Liberal_001.thumb.jpg) > > I’m sorry-it has just occured to me that I have no idea how to fix that coding. Could someone be so kind? It worked – but why you always linking to the thumbnail one rather than the full-size one? (which is a very cute pic, BTW). If we’re going by that picture, I’ll cast [this actress](http://images.art.com/images/products/regular/10103000/10103186.jpg) as you. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/84 "2006-04-06T03:00:19Z")
According to the entertaining site linked above, I could be played by such luminaries as Matthew Fox, Matthew Perry, or Stan Laurel. I’ve always thought I bore a resemblance physically and personality wise to [Topher Grace](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333410/). ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/85 "2006-04-06T03:06:15Z")
> [@JustAnotherGeek](#): > > …and just so this isn’t completely a flirt post, you guys have to tell me who I look like. > > [http://www.flickr.com/photos/17669460@N00/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/17669460@N00/) How about [Anthony Rapp](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/4534/Events/4534/AnthonyRap_Wargo_8063255_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Rapp,%20Anthony)? Well, to get back on-topic, the closest celeb-match to **vaderspal** is a Breakfast Club-era Ally Sheedy aged by 20 years. On **Anastaseon’s** recommended site, the two “matches” that show up for both photos I gave it were Selma Blair and [Sophie Ellis-Bextor](http://www.sophieellisbextor.net/gallery.htm) (dark-haired version). Selma, _maybe_, but I don’t see the other one. ---
**Author:** ![Arien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arien)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/86 "2006-04-06T03:08:45Z")
That site gave me Mena Suvari for one picture then I tried again and got Oprah Winfrey. Yeah, ok. Needless to say I do not look like either of them. I especially don’t have Mena Suvari’s huge forehead. Maybe she came up because the first picture was cut off at the top and didn’t include my hairline and thus the the software equated that with more forehead? Anyway, if the SDMB was made into a movie, I’d only be included in a large crowd shot at best. Not even enough to get me a page at IMDB. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/87 "2006-04-06T03:09:47Z")
Matthew Modine, in his role as [Pvt. Joker](http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/45/45_images/fullmodine2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/88 "2006-04-06T03:44:58Z")
I would be played by [Emily VanCamp](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/4085/Events/4085/EmilyVanCa_Grant_7068851_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=VanCamp,%20Emily), who apparently stars on Everwood, which I’ve never seen. Add five years and a curvier figure, and darker hair, and you’ve got me. I’m often blonde like her, but I’ve gone “natural” for the time being. Howefver, the face recognition website gave me…[Vaclav Havel](http://volokh.com/files/jim-Havel2.jpg). I kid you not. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/89 "2006-04-06T04:48:49Z")
That site is hilarious; it says I look variously like Richard Gere, Wong Kar Wai, and Karl Malone. The match I was happiest with (not because I _particularly_ look like him – though I look more like him than Wong Kar Wai – but because I think it would be cool to look like him) is Jack Kerouac. In reality, I’d probably be played by White Guy #2 – generic, not too distinctive looking bystander. Someone once told me I looked like a young Jimmy Stewart. I’m happy with that too – he was a handsome guy, in his way. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/90 "2006-04-06T04:58:25Z")
> [@vaderspal](#): > > Well, to get back on-topic, the closest celeb-match to **vaderspal** is a Breakfast Club-era Ally Sheedy aged by **20 years**. My pride forces me back to amend this to **10 years** , since she was probably in her early 20’s when she made that movie (as opposed to her “movie age” of 16ish). I’m only 36, and look young for my age. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Phantom\_Dennis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@Phantom\_Dennis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phantom_Dennis)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/91 "2006-04-06T06:45:25Z")
More than one person has mentioned that I look (and talk) like [Nicholas Brenden](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/scrapbook/47/Sbk/47/5504100_2_22.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Brendon,%20Nicholas) (Xander from Buffy). Yeah, I see the resemblance. But I think I’m a closer match to [Aaron Douglas](http://www.thescifiworld.net/img/interviews/aaron_douglas_02.jpg) (Chief Tyrol on Battlestar Galactica). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/92 "2006-04-06T06:59:46Z")
Dennis Franz will play the part of **Panache45** , but he’ll have to drop 40 pounds, and grow a few inches, and get a buzz cut, and grow a goatee, etc. etc. etc. But Panache’s partner will be played by the love child of Tony Perkins (at the time of “Psycho”) and Antonio Banderas. (It’s obvious who’s the hottie in this relationship.) ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/93 "2006-04-06T07:04:48Z")
> [@JustAnotherGeek](#): > > [size=1] > > …and just so this isn’t completely a flirt post, you guys have to tell me who I look like. > > [http://www.flickr.com/photos/17669460@N00/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/17669460@N00/) > > (one’s me, the others are a blatant plug for the [SDMB May Photo Assignment](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=365445) Awful strong resemblance to [Sebastian](http://shopping.animazing.com/gallery/disney/images/dis05k_jpg.jpg), there, in the first picture. I’m Asian, so we can cast Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, Bruce Lee, or Zhang Ziyi. Y’all white people won’t be able to tell the difference, anyway. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/94 "2006-04-06T13:01:31Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > It worked – but why you always linking to the thumbnail one rather than the full-size one? (which is a very cute pic, BTW). > > If we’re going by that picture, I’ll cast [this actress](http://images.art.com/images/products/regular/10103000/10103186.jpg) as you. 😉 I have no idea how to link to a larger one–in fact, I have no idea that a larger one exists-such are my computer (lack of) skills/knowledge. I sent that pic to someone on the nursing site I frequent and she scanned it in etc–I have no clue how to make it bigger etc. As soon as I posted, I saw that the link worked, but I know I am so bad at this, I was just trying to pre-empt the posts about it not working. That’ll teach me…something I imagine(what I dont’ know!). Molly Ringwald? Nah-she’s a redhead–I’m a strawberry blonde (sort of). But thanks! At least it wasn’t Creature From the Black Lagoon… ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/95 "2006-04-06T13:08:52Z")
Bah-just tried that site. My pic is taking 15 minutes to load? Don’t think so–so I guess it doesn’t work for me. Thank god-it’d probably come back PeeWee Herman or similiar. In 7th grade, my Home Ec teacher told me that I looked like Alfalfa from the Lil Rascals–not a good thing to say to a 12 year old girl… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/96 "2006-04-06T13:37:39Z")
> [@JustAnotherGeek](#): > > …and just so this isn’t completely a flirt post, you guys have to tell me who I look like. um, er, Matthew Broderick? > [@Phantom Dennis](#): > > More than one person has mentioned that I look (and talk) like \*\*Nicholas Brenden \*\* (Xander from Buffy). How \*\*\*YOU \*\* \* doin’? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/97 "2006-04-06T13:42:20Z")
After much thought, I have decided to fire Winona Ryder and replace her with [Mary Steenburgen](http://www.ctv.ca/generic/CTVShows/images/JoanofArcadia/JoanofArcadiaGallery/2joan-Steenburgen-300.html), only younger and with less boobage. Hope that’s okay, **tdn**! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/98 "2006-04-06T15:31:44Z")
Not that the personality’s any kind of match, but these days I’m looking a lot like [Bill Murray…](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000195/) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/99 "2006-04-06T15:36:56Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > According to the entertaining site linked above, I could be played by such luminaries as Matthew Fox, Matthew Perry, or Stan Laurel. > > I’ve always thought I bore a resemblance physically and personality wise to [Topher Grace](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333410/). I sort of looked like Topher Grace when I was younger. Now I look like Topher Grace if he was a lot older and even uglier. Imagine combining all the worst elements of Topher Grace and someone ugly and tall with a square head - Penn Jillette, maybe, but without a ponytail. Funny how so many SDMBers are to be played by drop-dead gorgeous actors. Things that make ya go “hmmmmm.” ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431/100 "2006-04-06T15:59:28Z")
Mine’s got to be [Edward Norton](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001570/). I get that all the time. Not Edward Norton in _American History X_ mind you. More like Edward Norton in _The People vs Larry Flynt_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cast-sdmb-the-motion-picture-or-who-do-you-look-like/351431.md?page=6)