Right? Tell me I’m not the only one who sees it. (appearance only)
https://www.google.com/search?q=novak+djokovic+paul+ryan&tbm=isch
~Max
Actually, if Novak Djokovic had black hair and dark features, he’d look exactly like my husband. And he’d have to be taller, too.
Roger Moore: “How will I recognize him?”
Maud Adams: “Tall; slim; and dark.”
Roger Moore: “…so’s my aunt.”
- THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
I do not know what Paul Ryan looks like.
However, there is a Denver Nuggets player who looks like Djokovic. He’s also Serbian and has almost the same name (Djokic). I always do a doubletake when I walk by and my guys are watching a Nuggets game and I see him.
Also in that vein, when I was watching The Magicians, I kept seeing not just Djokovic but also Kygrios, in the main characters. I think I may be alone in this.
They are both brunettes with relatively slim faces and large noses.
Djokovic’s nose is sharper. I saw a lot of that stereotypical south slavic nose in the Balkans. Ryan’s nose is large but it isn’t the same. I have a dominant Irish lineage including a touch of clan O’Riain (O’Ryan, Ryan, etc once anglicized.) Ryan’s nose is also relatively large and long but has a hint of the more bulbous tip that my larger nosed Irish relatives generally had. Ryan looks like family so I probably notice the small difference more.
Then there is the eyes. Any picture that clearly shows the eyes offers a striking difference between Ryan and Djokovic. Try to not notice that striking difference once you see it for the first time.
No thank you. I’m doing my best to forget what Paul Ryan’s face looks like.
(I always thought he looked like a bunch of those 1940s-50s child actors. Bobby Driscoll maybe, or Natalie Wood.)
maybe, in an extremely general way, but I don’t think I’d ever confuse the two.
I see it. I agree I would be unlikely to get them mixed up, but if Djokovic were an actor and played Ryan in a movie, I’d think “Wow, good look-alike casting!” The main difference that might throw it off is that Djokovic has a more protruding* jaw when he faces camera and smiles.
*Not sure that’s the right term, so I included a pic.