# "Wait, it's a different guy?" moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157 "2022-02-26T16:45:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/81 "2022-02-27T14:41:06Z")
Thanks for asking. Looks like that’s been debunked: [Jones was never a dentist, as many websites report.](https://alchetron.com/Allan-Jones-(actor)) ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/82 "2022-02-27T14:55:50Z")
Interesting photos here. > **[96 Actors With Their Body Doubles Show Your Whole Life Was A Lie](https://www.boredpanda.com/actors-body-stunt-doubles/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)** > > You know what it's like when you're in the supermarket doing your grocery shopping and somebody comes up to you and says Hey, aren't you a major international movie megastar? No? Well, me neither, but I'm pretty sure the people below have found... ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/83 "2022-02-27T15:16:04Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Still getting my James Franciscuses and Tony Franciosas mixed up. It doesn’t help that their names are practically the same. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/84 "2022-02-27T15:21:28Z")
It was nice that James Farentino had dark hair, so as to spare us “Slovakia/Slovenia/Slavonia” level confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/85 "2022-02-27T15:24:03Z")
Oh, thank god! ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/86 "2022-02-27T15:52:55Z")
Meg Foster and Kirstie Allie looked a lot alike at one time. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/87 "2022-02-27T17:01:20Z")
In the 1990’s, I thought Ethan Hawke and Sean Astin were hard to tell apart. Example: Who is in that movie Rudy? I genuinely would have had to pause and think. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/88 "2022-02-27T17:14:40Z")
Oh, another two who I had to look to what year the film and/or TV show was made to make sure I knew who I was watching (and briefly thought one was the other’s daughter): Helen Hunt and Leelee Sobieski. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/89 "2022-02-27T17:31:18Z")
I don’t really think any of those stunt doubles actually look like the actors they’re doubling so that they’d be mistaken for them on the street, it’s all make-up, prosthetics and costuming. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/90 "2022-02-27T17:33:43Z")
Javier Bardem and Jeffrey Dean Morgan ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/91 "2022-02-27T17:37:12Z")
Fergie looks a lot like a young Kirstie Alley. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/92 "2022-02-27T18:12:50Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > Javier Bardem and Jeffrey Dean Morgan Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Robert Downey, Jr., at least circa 2009. When I saw the trailers for _The Watchmen_, I genuinely thought RDJ was playing the Comedian (possibly in muscle prosthetics). ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/93 "2022-02-27T18:21:15Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I don’t really think any of those stunt doubles actually look like the actors they’re doubling so that they’d be mistaken for them on the street, it’s all make-up, prosthetics and costuming. Close enough to fool the audience in passing moments etc., however. ---
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/94 "2022-02-27T18:41:46Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Oh, another two who I had to look to what year the film and/or TV show was made to make sure I knew who I was watching (and briefly thought one was the other’s daughter): Helen Hunt and Leelee Sobieski. Yes, they pretty famously get confused for each other, I had forgotten that. I seem to recall a talk show showed Ms. Hunt photos of both of them to see if she could recognize herself. Another duo of doppelgangers is Joey Lauren Adams and Renee Zellweger. Adams said that Harvey Weinstein made the error numerous times, but others did also. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/95 "2022-02-27T18:44:38Z")
Probably an old one, but I watched ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ yesterday and when the sheriff appeared I thought hey, Slim Pickens. Nope. Andy Devine. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/96 "2022-02-27T21:40:39Z")
I watched a clip of what I thought was Rachel Bloom playing an astronomer…turns out it was an actual astronomer named Amy Mainzer. [![](https://www.heyalma.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/rachelbloom.jpg) ](https://www.heyalma.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/rachelbloom.jpg) [![](https://dnm.nflximg.net/api/v6/BvVbc2Wxr2w6QuoANoSpJKEIWjQ/AAAAQa-yUIGnPmqZbZc3wMmvVC7VHcb_sROYtq9yletEC8WBN7QE_EPva_d9yvmHZhWYdB4xqdsi3xXlHtfjgoQOG_PdrgiRNW-ScHbjnYSLYWZjcVhAq45rxvtbrQP1Xb_bV72w4MXfirImwlkI7IR28lg6LtU.jpg?r=bac) ](https://dnm.nflximg.net/api/v6/BvVbc2Wxr2w6QuoANoSpJKEIWjQ/AAAAQa-yUIGnPmqZbZc3wMmvVC7VHcb_sROYtq9yletEC8WBN7QE_EPva_d9yvmHZhWYdB4xqdsi3xXlHtfjgoQOG_PdrgiRNW-ScHbjnYSLYWZjcVhAq45rxvtbrQP1Xb_bV72w4MXfirImwlkI7IR28lg6LtU.jpg?r=bac) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/97 "2022-02-27T23:06:58Z")
> [@Temporary\_Name](#): > > Another duo of doppelgangers is Joey Lauren Adams and Renee Zellweger. A trio, if you include Jewel. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/98 "2022-02-27T23:20:47Z")
Theres two or three actresses who look like Margot Kidder And dont get me started on Amy Adams/ Bryce Dallas Howard/ Jessica Chastain/ Isla Fischer ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/99 "2022-02-28T01:36:41Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > And dont get me started on Amy Adams/ Bryce Dallas Howard/ Jessica Chastain/ Isla Fischer Oh, that’s easy. Amy Adams and Isla Fischer are around 5’1" while Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastain are about six inches taller. (However, once you get beyond that, I’ll grant you the distinctions get a lot more fuzzy.) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/100 "2022-02-28T02:04:43Z")
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