# Who Would Play You in the Movie Based on Your Life? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2000, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640 "2000-10-04T16:57:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/41 "2000-10-06T05:02:28Z")
The role of JBirdman12 would have to go to Christian Slater. He’s just like me, all the way down to the 3rd hand Jack Nicholson voice (sample dialogue: “Ya gotta have a boat–it makes it easier to hide the bodies!”) ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/42 "2000-10-06T05:13:31Z")
I have absolutely no clue who should/would play me in a movie based on my life. I doubt any actresses look like me, and well, I’d rather ask someone else which ones get roles that are like me. So, anyone who’s up to it, give me an actress to play me. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/43 "2000-10-06T05:36:45Z")
Oliver Platt would make a great slythe! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/44 "2000-10-06T08:09:33Z")
When we had this discussion back in college, I was told that Barry Bostwick would be perfect to play me. The only problem, though, is that he’s 30 years older. My girlfriend keeps telling me that I look like Tom Cruise (and I am doing nothing to get her eyesight fixed), but the actor who looks most like me is William McNamara, who played the copycat serial killer in Copycat(1995). He looked and dressed so much like me in that movie that it scared the fertilizer out of my gf. –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/45 "2000-10-06T14:20:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Snooooopy \* > \*\*Independent sources have told me that I look quite a bit like Philip Seymour Hoffman. \*\* Funny you should mention that. I said I thought Phil would do a good job with me, because I just really like him as an actor. But as I was typing it, I was thinking - Snooooopy, that’s who ol’ Philip Seymour was destined to play. I may be the bearer of either good or bad news, but those independant sources were right; you and he could be brothers. ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/46 "2000-10-06T14:50:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chance the Gardener \* > \*\*Peter Sellers is sort of the obvious choice. \*\* That’d be one hell of a acting job, what with trying to not act dead and all. ---
**Author:** ![Anniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@Anniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniz)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/47 "2000-10-06T14:59:32Z")
Because I can take who ever I whant too, my choise would be **Nicole Kidman**. She just look gorgous. ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/48 "2000-10-06T15:26:30Z")
Definitely the Woman in the Radiator from Eraserhead. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/49 "2000-10-06T17:34:27Z")
Regretably, I look like Drew Carey. ---
**Author:** ![Sophie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sophie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophie)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/50 "2000-10-06T18:41:16Z")
Ooooo, I can’t remember her name right now, but I have been told by a few people that I look like that woman who was in Cider House Rules and Mighty Joe Young…dammit…I wish I could remember her name… ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/51 "2000-10-06T18:49:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sophie \* > \*\*Ooooo, I can’t remember her name right now, but I have been told by a few people that I look like that woman who was in Cider House Rules and Mighty Joe Young…dammit…I wish I could remember her name… \*\* **Charlize Theron** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/52 "2000-10-08T19:35:55Z")
This used to be a hard question for me until we got the expanded cable service. Jimmy Kimmel. Cordially, Myron M. Meyer The Man Who ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/53 "2000-10-08T19:48:22Z")
Christina Ricci. ---
**Author:** ![drewcosten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@drewcosten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewcosten)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/54 "2000-10-08T23:13:22Z")
David Duchovny, definitely (especially in the way that he plays Fox Mulder). I’ve been compared to, and called Fox Mulder so many times that it would have to be him. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/55 "2000-10-09T09:36:38Z")
Bruce Willis in ‘Pulp Fiction’. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/56 "2000-10-10T18:07:56Z")
I’ve been told I look like Jennifer Jason Leigh, Diane Lane, and Elizabeth Shue. I’d rather play myself in a movie, but I think I’ll go with Jennifer - she has a similar personality to mine. Even though I think she’s the least attractive of the three… ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/57 "2000-10-10T18:31:42Z")
Hmmm i’ve always wanted to be an actor so i would have to play myself but if i had to pick an actor it would either be: Ben Affleck - because he is a great actor Trey Parker - because he is a great actor and hes funny as hell or Jason Lee - because hes a great actor and hes funny as hell _and_ in real life im alot like Brodie from Mallrats. I dont really look like any of them though, im 6’5" 155lbs, you arent going to find an actor that fits that description heh. (alot of people say if i put on an afro wig i would look like the college age howard stern from private parts.) ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/58 "2000-10-10T19:05:16Z")
Dawn French, but she will have to grow her hair or wear a wig. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/59 "2000-10-11T12:47:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jean Grey \* > \*\*I’ve been told I look like Jennifer Jason Leigh, Diane Lane, and Elizabeth Shue. I’d rather play myself in a movie, but I think I’ll go with Jennifer - she has a similar personality to mine. Even though I think she’s the least attractive of the three… \*\* Then, will you marry me? How 'bout a torrid affair then, HMMMM? ---
**Author:** ![Jedi\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@Jedi\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jedi_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640/60 "2000-10-12T05:30:49Z")
I’d be lele soborseki (her name is probably spelled wrong…), at least according to one of my friends - she said i have the whole innocent but mature and serious look. 🙂 a couple others think i look a lot like gillian anderson, and I really like the way she portrays scully in the x-files (the same friends say i act a lot like her too) :). I’d have to go with lele though, because she’s younger, although she’d have to die her hair auburn. 😃 Jedi Girl [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-based-on-your-life/35640.md?page=4)