Movies where actors pull double duty.




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Tom Hardy plays twins in a film called Legend

Nicolas Cage and John Travolta play both themselves and each other in face/off

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There’s an actor in the LOTR trilogy who plays several different prominent orc characters

Also John Rhys-davies plays both Gimli and Treebeard

also Brett McKenzie played Figwit and Lindir (I had to look these names up; he’s just an extra but also one of the guys from Flight of the Conchords).

favorite

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Does Face/Off count. I mean it could get in on a technicality. Nothing better than Travolta pretending to be Nicholas Cage, and Nicholas Cage being well the same.

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And then I knew: that this boy, would be a fool, for blondes.

not a movie but garret dillahunt in deadwood

deadwood was the best

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Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood would likely qualify.

whomst among us can claim to know a double dutier than michael keaton

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I Know Who Killed Me is the best movie featuring Art Bell and Awesome Color.

nicholas cage as john travolta was nicholas cage but with even more awkward face touching

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Alec Guinness plays 8 members of the D’Ascoyne family in Kind Hearts and Coronets

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How could I forget Kind Hearts and Coronets. It’s a British black comedy about British ponces hating each other for money, as played by a knighted aristocrat actor. It’s just about the most British thing imaginable.

I was struggling to describe this so I just uploaded it

such a wonderfully weird film

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good addition to the “stuff dads can do” thread too

everyone in cloud atlas lol

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Anything with Peter Sellers that isn’t Being There.