# The movie Kick Ass has both Quicksilvers!!?

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**Created:** [July 9, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-kick-ass-has-both-quicksilvers/790854 "2017-07-09T17:41:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-kick-ass-has-both-quicksilvers/790854/21 "2017-07-11T16:43:23Z")

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> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> The Royal National Theatre staged a version of _Frankenstein_ where the two lead actors would alternate playing the monster and Victor Frankenstein.
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> They were Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller.

Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn famously exchanged the roles of Thomas Becket and Henry II in the initial Broadway run of Jean Anhouilh’s **Becket** in 1960 (and then on tour Olivier and Arthur Kennedy did the same)

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-kick-ass-has-both-quicksilvers/790854/22 "2017-07-11T16:49:42Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn famously exchanged the roles of Thomas Becket and Henry II in the initial Broadway run of Jean Anhouilh’s **Becket** in 1960 (and then on tour Olivier and Arthur Kennedy did the same)

Still, for purposes of this thread the Interesting Little Factoid is that Cumberbatch is of course TV’s Sherlock Holmes, and so too is Miller.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-kick-ass-has-both-quicksilvers/790854/23 "2017-07-11T17:03:48Z")

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> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> Still, for purposes of this thread the Interesting Little Factoid is that Cumberbatch is of course TV’s Sherlock Holmes, and so too is Miller.

Sorry – that bity wasn’t obvious to me.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-kick-ass-has-both-quicksilvers/790854/24 "2017-07-11T17:11:38Z")

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And speaking of Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey, Jr. are likely to appear in movies together in the not-too-distant future, in the Marvel cinematic universe.

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-kick-ass-has-both-quicksilvers/790854/25 "2017-07-11T17:15:18Z")

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At that, Kevin “Robin Hood” Costner and Russell “Robin Hood” Crowe were playing Superman’s two dads in MAN OF STEEL.

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