# movies where an actor imitates another actor in the same movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902 "2012-06-02T23:56:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/41 "2012-06-05T13:45:40Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > There’s the mirror scene in that old Marx Brothers movie… _Duck Soup_, with Harpo Marx imitating Groucho. Harpo did a reprise of this with Lucy in _I Love Lucy_. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/42 "2012-07-21T04:28:47Z")
In one of the _Hot Shots!_ movies, Charlie Sheen is on a Vietnam-era patrol boat, doing a voiceover as he writes in his journal, just like in _Apocalypse Now_. Another voiceover intrudes, saying the same words, and another patrol boat approaches them going in the opposite direction, and you see Martin Sheen is in that one. They each stand, stare at each other, and as the boats pass, they shout at each other, “I loved you in _Wall Street_!” ---
**Author:** ![Pitchmeister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pitchmeister/32/3459_2.png) [@Pitchmeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitchmeister)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/43 "2012-07-23T13:54:36Z")
I really loved Helena Bonham Carter as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter 7.1 - wonderfully awkward! ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/44 "2012-07-23T14:14:34Z")
> [@Pitchmeister](#): > > I really loved Helena Bonham Carter as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter 7.1 - wonderfully awkward! I heard that they first shot Emma Watson doing the scene so that Helena Bonham Carter could get the mannerisms down perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/45 "2012-07-23T15:57:43Z")
I don’t know if it aired in the US yet, but there’s an episode of **Lost Girl** where the entire main cast swaps bodies. Kenzi gets Dyson’s body and I think Kris Holden-Reid does a pretty funny, spot-on imitation of Ksenia Solo. (off the subject, but man that little goth pixie is smokin.) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/46 "2012-07-23T18:22:14Z")
There’s a Laurel & Hardy short where a blood transfusion goes wrong, and they each end up acting like the other one. Probably _Thicker Than Water_, 1935 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902/47 "2012-07-23T18:31:47Z")
> [@Pitchmeister](#): > > I really loved Helena Bonham Carter as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter 7.1 - wonderfully awkward! HBC did such a really fantastic job of that. When she showed up on screen my brain instantly recognized her as “Hermione in a Bellatrix costume” without even stopping at “EEEk, Run! Bellatrix!” In the deleted scenes for In Bruges, Matt Smith does an **excellent** Ralph Fiennes. Highly recommended. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-an-actor-imitates-another-actor-in-the-same-movie/623902.md?page=2)