6 Movies Where Actors Played Two Versions Of Themselves
Here’s the pitch: One Will Smith is great, but two? Even better.
The Hollywood genre machine will never stop churning: spy thrillers starring Matt Damon, comic book movies where an entire city is destroyed, indie gems with Paul Dano, and that one time two movies about talking pigs came out at the same time.
But of all the many different species, and sub-species, of movies out there, the one-actor-who-plays-two-character movie is both underrated and beloved. For completely mystifying reasons, too. Yes, Lindsay Lohan playing her own twin in The Parent Trap reboot is adorable but is that any reason to produce movies featuring a famous person co-starring with themselves, thanks to split-screen trickery or cutting-edge CGI? Apparently, for decades, the answer has been ‘yes.’
Enter Gemini Man, a new movie where Will Smith plays an elite assassin who’s being hunted by a sexy, new, young assassin named Junior. Who is this Fresh Prince trying to take on our man? Why, it’s his own clone, of course!
This big-budget Battle of the Will Smiths is proof the two-for-one-actor genre, which has been gurgling within Hollywood since the 1940s, is inexplicably healthy and well. Here are six more examples where one actor plays multiple roles — and don’t…
