Film fan #1:- "Have you ever seen that movie with Gary Busey where he plays a homeless guy and he ends up living with a rich family in Hollywood? And he sleeps with the guys wife and mistress and makes his life hell?"
Film fan #2:- "You mean Down & Out In Beverly Hills?"
Film fan #1:- "That's the one."
Film fan #2:- "No it's not got Gary Busey in it. It's Nick Nolte that plays the homeless guy. Gary Busey is the guy that's trying to trap the Predator in Predator 2."
Film fan #1:- "No, no that's the guy who plays Bruce Banner's dad in that Hulk movie by Ang Lee."
Film fan #2:- "No THAT'S Nick Nolte. Eddie Murphy's partner in 48 hours."
Film fan #1:- "The guy who's Keanu Reeves' partner in Point Break?"
Film fan #2:- "GAAHH!! NO! THAT'S GARY BUSEY!!!"
I'm forever having these types of conversations with people. Sometimes it's simple mistaken identity that confuses them.
Sometimes it's stubbornness to believe they're wrong that drives them to keep pushing their point of view.
Sometimes it's the sheer inability to tell faces apart from each other.
In my case, if I ever make this mistake it's usually because they're incredibly similar looking. But right after discovering the difference between the actors I get an immediate idea in my head.
They'll probably never be in the same film.
Unless they're playing each others relatives...
So here is a suggestion to the makers of movies and/or television programs for people that could play each other's relations, be they parents, children, grandchildren or siblings.
N.B.-This post will be lady actors and then another time I'll put up one of gent actors
Elizabeth Perkins, Embeth Davidtz, Sarah Paulson & Bridget Moynahan
Maggie Grace, Leslie Bibb, Emma Caulfield & Rachael McAdams
Helen Hunt, Tina Fey & Anna Kendrick
Elisha Cuthbert, Alison Lohman & Chloë Moretz
Rosie Huntington-Whitely & Rachel Weisz
And the insanely obvious Meg & Jennifer Tilley
Until next time fools,
Pete
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