# Twinskie actors
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 12, 2024, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986 "2024-01-12T01:57:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/41 "2024-02-04T07:56:46Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> Lord of the Rings helped me solidify who Sean Astin is.
Father Time took care of the rest.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/42 "2024-02-04T10:35:04Z")
These are, in no particular order, Margot Robbie, Emma Mackey, Faith Ford, Jamie Pressley, Samara Weaving, and Jaime King.
[ ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2ZH4xYaYAQPrAp?format=jpg&name=900x900)
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/43 "2024-02-04T19:30:07Z")
Gawd, I’m only fairly certain about Margot Robbie. So this is what getting old is like.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/44 "2024-02-04T19:48:02Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#):
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> Gawd, I’m only fairly certain about Margot Robbie. So this is what getting old is like
I want the picture labeled to see if I know what’s what. I think Robbie is bottom right.
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### Author:  [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/45 "2024-02-04T20:06:04Z")
Bottom right is Jamie Presley, top right Faith, bottom left Samara.
I have actually seen more Samara Weaving films than Margot Robbie films.
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/46 "2024-02-04T20:08:50Z")
Well, if I’m wrong about the bottom right being Margot, then I don’t even get that one.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/47 "2024-02-04T20:28:40Z")
Correct. The order is:
Jaime King - Margot Robbie - Faith Ford
Samara Weaving - Emma Mackey - Jamie Pressley
Emma Mackey actually appeared in _Barbie_ as one of the Barbies, which I think was deliberate for her looky-likey-ness.
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### Author:  [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/48 "2024-02-04T21:00:16Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> And, for reasons perhaps best left unexamined, we find ourselves living in the age of [the Chrises](https://ohtorch.com/7674/entertainment/hollywoods-four-chrises-cause-confusion-and-swooning/#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20famous,Chris%20Pine%2C%20and%20Chris%20Pratt.)
I had trouble keeping Chris Farley and Chris Rock straight 😑
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### Author:  [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/49 "2024-02-05T00:33:54Z")
> [@Dogginit](#):
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> I had trouble keeping Chris Farley and Chris Rock straight
The way to tell the difference is that one of them is dead.
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### Author:  [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/50 "2024-02-05T00:52:38Z")
Back in the 1970s I thought Gil Gerard looked and sounded a lot like Lee Majors. Maybe not identical but strongly reminiscent.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/51 "2024-02-05T01:01:11Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Keira Knightly and Natalie Portman.
To the point that, in _Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace_, when they were both teenagers, Knightley played a character named Sabé, who served as the decoy/double for Portman’s character, Queen Amidala, due to the similarity of their looks.
(Having watched the movie many times, I figured out that I could tell the difference between the two, due to eyebrow shape, and a mole on Portman’s cheek.)
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### Author:  [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/52 "2024-02-05T02:57:30Z")
> [@Dogginit](#):
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> I had trouble keeping Chris Farley and Chris Rock straight
IIRC, they are/were rather different in skin color.
> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> To the point that, in _Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace_, when they were both teenagers, Knightley played a character named Sabé, who served as the decoy/double for Portman’s character, Queen Amidala, due to the similarity of their looks.
I’m not sure if this is just legend, but supposedly once they were in makeup, their own parents had a bit of trouble distinguishing them.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/53 "2024-02-05T03:02:03Z")
> [@Seanette](#):
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> I’m not sure if this is just legend, but supposedly once they were in makeup, their own parents had a bit of trouble distinguishing them.
I remember reading exactly that story when the movie came out. It might well have been exaggeration, but it’s a cute story.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/54 "2024-02-05T03:53:07Z")
> [@Seanette](#):
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> IIRC, they are/were rather different in skin color.
Probably not so much anymore.
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### Author:  [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/55 "2024-02-05T03:55:49Z")
This is true. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/56 "2024-02-05T04:17:25Z")
> [@Moriarty](#):
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> The way to tell the difference is that one of them is dead.
🤣So very good riposte!
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/57 "2024-02-05T17:40:34Z")
I guess when you look at them side by side they don’t look all that similar, but I’ve frequently confused George C. Scott and Everett Sloane.
[ ](https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRbj6dkmYco49zdWdPTWARR0Xuka90Vbz69KGwoSMnpmgwflQ1S)
[ ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/George_C._Scott_-_publicity.JPG/486px-George_C._Scott_-_publicity.JPG)
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/58 "2024-02-05T22:51:52Z")
> [@Seanette](#):
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> IIRC, they are/were rather different in skin color.
Skin color probably not the first thing I’d notice about Rock and Farley.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/59 "2024-02-05T23:04:27Z")
I sometimes confuse Lashana Lynch and Condola Rashad. When I see their pictures together they don’t really look alike but when I only see one I have to doublecheck which one it is.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinskie-actors/995986/60 "2024-02-05T23:36:17Z")
I recently found out that I’m the only person who confuses Ryan Gosling with Jake Gyllenhaal. I’ve always thought their resemblance was obvious.
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