This kind of thing is way too common to be pathological.
They seem to run this a lot during streaming services. I’m always impressed how in a commercial where the acting is all facial expressions, Angel Parker absolutely nails them, it’s amazing.
Also, being in a household with two young girls, I find it funny to see Idini Menzel dismissed as the ‘white singer in the pink jacket.’
About 15 years ago the lady cutting my hair asked if I was the mayor (of Parma, Ohio). It happened again with a different stylists so I guess it might have been feasible. I have no idea what he looked like.
I just tried vonvon.me and with a current photo I look like Eric Bana. I have no idea who he is but I do look like him!
I tired starbyface and it gave me a bunch of choices. One of them was Michael Douglas so I’ll take that one.
Yeah. I first noticed that Geico ad while it played w the sound off. Angel’s face was so expressive it was real eye-catching. I only learned who the actress was when researching my post. The ad almost works better w/o the audio.
As to the singer chick in the pink coat, I have no idea who she is. When I listened to the ad audio, she sang so badly and her acting was so over-the-top I figured she had to be a joke designed-to-be-annoying character, like Flo from Progressive. Now you’re telling me she’s a real entertainer? Color me mystified.
Ha. She’s the voice of Elsa. Also somewhat famously, the original Elphaba in Broadway’s Wicked. My older daughter has also been getting into Wicked lately.
I’ve been told I look like Stephen King, by so many people over so many years, that I’ve come to accept that it’s so.
However, I was blown away by the - African-American, as it happened - lady to whom I had to show my driver’s licence to prove I wasn’t Gary Busey. Um, thanks?
The first time I saw a movie starring Ryan Reynolds, he reminded me so strongly of another actor, but I couldn’t put my finger on who. It bugged me for months, trying to figure out who Ryan Reynolds reminded me of.
Turned out, he reminded me of Ryan Reynolds, from when he was starring in a sitcom.
I know, right? And Ted Danson inevitably reminds me of Ted Danson.
It shouldn’t be too hard to understand why either. The physical markers that distinguish white people are typically things like hair color and eye color. i.e., colors. So adding in skin color isn’t much of a stretch. Wasn’t it common practice to list eye color and hair color on IDs in the USA?
In pretty much all non-white populations eye color and hair color are the same. If you grow up around East Asian people, you pick up on different things to distinguish faces. I wonder if they put eye color and hair color on IDs in non-white countries? I mean, why bother right?
And in my case, add on a mild touch of face-blindness: “Prosopagnosia is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces.” (From “medicinenet.com”).
My wife had eye color in her Cameroonian passport. I suppose many former colonies keep up their administrative procedures without much questioning.
In 1986 I worked at the Central Bakery at Michigan State University. We had a problem that requried a maintence worker to come in. I came around the corner and saw this guy and was so startled that I broke my personal rule not to ask a person “did anyone ever tell you that you look like…?” In this case it was Paul McCartney. The resemblance was so striling. So I started to ask “the questioon” and before I even go to the name he forcefully said “Yes”. He must have been so tired of answering.
Was it Billy Campbell?
Over the years I have been told by strangers that I look like Eric Clapton, Bruce Willis, John Heard, and Tim Allen. The only thing I have in common with all of them is that we’re all white males. It was a Black guy who said I looked like Tim Allen. He didn’t just say I looked like Tim Allen, he thought I was Tim Allen. Once I convinced him I wasn’t we had a good laugh.
But I wasn’t offended.
I’ve never been mistaken for any celebrity, but I’ve got a friend who looks a lot like Sean Penn. I wouldn’t have noticed it myself, but when it was pointed out I was like “Oh, yeah.”