There’s gotta be some examples of that kind of fancasting out there.
Only example I can think of is Zooey Deschanellnellchanell being in a Katy Perry video.
Those examples have nothing to do with what I mentioned: actors who look like family, not real-life relatives.
I’m re-watching a bunch of MASH reruns and season 9, episode 6 starts with the gang ringing in the new year, 1951. Now, the episode is sort of a year in the life thing, but the first scene features Potter, BJ, Winchester, Klinger in a baseball jersey not a dress and no Radar, which basically means the entire first eight seasons of MASH took place in a span of about 6 month, the war having started in June of 1950.
MAS*H is hard to pen down. Henry Blake’s helicopter was shot down in 1952.
True. As I was composing that post it occurred to me that Frank, Radar, Trapper and Henry spent plenty of time freezing their asses off; that couldn’t have all happened in November and December of 1950.
BTW … Blake was shot down in a plane. /pedantry
Yeah, the MASH timeline is muddy, to put it mildly. If I recall correctly, the producers basically said, “we don’t really care about that.”
As for lookalike actors, David Hyde Pierce’s resemblance to Kelsey Grammer was apparently a large factor in his being cast in Frasier.
Hey, that’s a good one. I’ve only seen bits of a few episodes and had to check online. They do look alike.
In the movie “Babylon,” I was wondering why they had Margot in a second, uncredited, role. It turned out to be Samara Weaving.
In the role I know her best in, she does.
In the 2014 movie The Monuments Men, which was directed by George Clooney, he is in the second-to-last scene of the movie playing the character he’s played all through the movie up to that point. The scene is supposed to take place in 1947. His character is asked if thirty years from then anyone will remember that men died for a piece of art. He thinks that they will. In the last scene, set in 1977, his character is played instead by his father Nick Clooney (who is a little more than 27 years older than George Clooney).
I fully support that attitude (particularly in the case of MASH where I believe there were more episodes than days the US was actually fighting). Insert a new Darrin or Becky (and/or bring back the original Becky), ignore that Chuck went up the stairs 10 years ago and never came back down - the modern obsession with continuity drives me nuts.
If it’s some major obvious thing, make an attempt at hand-waving an explanation (it was all a dream worked better with Newhart then Dallas), but then just move on.
It just occurred to me that the made-up word “bodacious” which I think I first heard in AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN is the adjectival form of the word ‘body.’
A quick look at the Googlke n-gram viewer corroborates that the term appeared in the 19th century, with b lips around 1840 and 1885. But it really started taking off circa 1920 and has grown, peaking around ten years ago or so
Strange. I never saw Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. The phrase I’m familiar with is “bodacious tatas”–isn’t that from Officer and Gentleman?
I never saw that movie. But evidently “bodacious tatas” was used in that film, and some dictionary definitions (and Joe Bob Briggs) say that’s the first use of the phrase. I know it was used as a porno title about the same time, but that would be consistent.
Nevertheless, “bodacious” clearly existed as a word long before anyone associated with An Officer and a Gentleman was even born.
Mine is Maria Bello, Julie Bowen, and Kristen Bell.
They’d be convincing as two sisters and a daughter/niece, wouldn’t they?
One of the matches I couldn’t remember upthread is Matt Damon and Hllary Swank, who look an awful lot like brother and sister.
After having a quick look online for Damon/Swank, I’ve realized that the lookalike thing has been done to death on social media, so I guess my idea would be to apply just about any of them to familial movie roles. I’m still a little surprised it doesn’t seem to be done in the film industry.
How about Laurie Metcalf and Jeffrey Tambor?
Yeah, good one! 
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne were cast as a couple in a movie, and it really disturbed me because they looked so much alike.