People you thought were the same person

freewheeler

Chad Smith (Drummer Red Hot Chilli Peppers)

+ Will Ferrell

Had to google it once...was convinced they were the same person!

gormdubhgorm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120041817#Comment_120041817

Thanks wish I saw this earlier that is the fella as well. But it is those three Busey, Nolte and Sadlier. They all play similar characters in films as well. To the extent if you put a gun to my head and asked me name the fella. I have a 33% chance of getting it wrong.

the 12 th man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120086646#Comment_120086646

There's a youtube video where they do a drum off...

cj maxx

Bill Pullman

And Bill Paxton

YFlyer

Karl Spain and Limerick United mascot in the early 80s.

maninasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120031340#Comment_120031340

Yup https://lovindublin.com/news/rte-just-mixed-up-game-of-thrones-star-peter-dinklage-with-jordan-prentice-from-in-bruges

its_steve116

For years I was under the impression that Karen Koster and Claudine Palmer were the same person, to the point that I thought Karen was married to Robbie Keane. Only when I learned that she had a husband called John did I realise otherwise.

castletownman

Topical, but I thought Jeff Beck went solo as Beck and I enjoyed his single 'Loser'.....mind blown

banie01

Zach Galifianakis & Robert Redford 🤦‍♂️

Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg.

its_steve116

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120102604#Comment_120102604

"Maaaaaark Waaaaaaahlbeeeeerg!" (in Team America Matt Damon voice)

cyprian

I thought John McEnroe was marrried to the singer Patti Smith, turns out it was a different famous patti smith

Absoluvely

Thought these were the same actor

Stephen Spinella as Lieutenant Chad - Rubber (2010)

Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell - No Country For Old Men (2007)

scotchy

Alun Armstrong and Pete Postlethwaite. Always takes me a while to figure which is which, even though I don't think they look alike.

Although now I look at them again, they do share a resemblance.

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John_Rambo

Mo Mowlam and Elton John.

blade1

Edward Norton and Edward Furlong.

Not visually, just when one of their names pops up I might think it's the other.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120032129#Comment_120032129

Ah that’s criminal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120034002#Comment_120034002

Noel needs a new identity to get work

blade1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120169257#Comment_120169257

They should be put back on the chain gang.

comedians James acaster and joe Lycett , what was particularly confusing is one of them is very flamboyantly dressed, which had me thinking “why is lycett wearing a giant fluffy pink cardigan today ? “

jojofizzio

Phoebe Bridges and Phoebe Waller-Bridge….I just assumed some days the former could not be bothered with the full version.

also thought the same (one)person was being shared by Paul Mescall and Martin McDonagh

gormdubhgorm

Apologies if I posted this before radio on in background.

Thought it was the familiar monotone voice of that Leo Varadkar fella.

I started to wonder why is Leo on about the Rugby WC ? I only then copped on it was Brian O’Driscoll!

It happens the other way around as well. Jayus B.O.D is taking a keen interest in the HSE trolley crisis. Hang on….

seenitall

I concur for Brydon/Coogan, Damon/ Wahlberg, Howard/Chastain and Cera/Eisenberg.

Some other famous pairs (that I’ve mixed up, at least):

Cameron Diaz and Helena Christensen

Juliette Binoche and Julia Ormond

Lesley Ann Warren and Lesley-Ann Down (no, not just their names!)

Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester

James D’Arcy and Benedict Cumberbatch

Johnny Depp and Skeet Ulrich

I also used to get confused about loads of old Hollywood actors, like Lee Marvin and Jason Robards. There’s loads of these pairs, just it’s been a while so I can’t remember.

And don’t get me started on all the Baldwin brothers, or the Bee Gees, or the Carradines. Some are interchangeable for sure.

BattleCorp

I think it was an Underworld film and I was about half an hour in before I realised it wasn't Kate Beckinsale. Had to google and it was Rhona Mitra.

Other actors that I did a double take on were Tom Hardy and Logan Marshall Green and Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Javier Bardem.

The 6 cops in trouble this week and the 6 cops in trouble last week (USA)

o1s1n

I had to do a double take the first time Dr Jacoby turned up in Twin Peaks, thought it was a Jack Nickleson cameo.

scotchy

Being unfamiliar with the film it was from, for a long time I thought it was Robert DeNiro in this meme.

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yourdeadwright

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120031340#Comment_120031340

Wow mind blown , i thought it was him all this time

bodhrandude

When I saw the Rig I thought it was your one from Breaking Bad.

Emily Hampshire (The Rig)

And Laura Frazer (Breaking Bad)

Hangdogroad

For some reason that I've forgotten in the mists of time, I used to get Gemma O Doherty mixed up with Cathy Kelly, author and former journalist. This would have been long before the former went full mentalist. Its not even that they look alike or anything.

Edit: it was niggling at me all morning so after some deep digging I know now why I had them confused. I had Cathy Kelly mixed up with former Sunday Independent crime correspondent turned author Liz Allen, who does kind of look like her. She took a case against the Sindo in the early 00s over bullying. Gemmas firing from the Indo led me to further get her confused with Liz Allen and subsequently Cathy Kelly.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-allen-novelist-and-former-journalist-goes-bankrupt-with-3-7m-debts-5cmd2jzr2