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actors perfect for playing different age counterparts of one another?


Which pairs of actors can you think of that would be perfect for playing different age counterparts for one another?

Here's some of my ideas:

young Timothy Dalton/old Patrick Stewart
young Dane DeHaan/old Jack Nicholson
young Jessica Chastain/old Cloris Leachman

What are yours?

Please don't post ones that have been done already ala young Joseph-Gordon Levitt/old Bruce Willis

Discuss...

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Rose Byrne currently aged 40
https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/rose-byrne.jpg

and Lara Robinson currently aged 22
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3b/e2/2c/3be22c5ac88b36403ae48f17b318c677.jpg


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i think Zoey Deutch looks so much like rose byrne, i thought it was her daughter

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I think Dane DeHaan would be perfect young version of Leonardo DiCaprio instead.

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There are some good suggestions here:

https://www.businessinsider.com/lookalike-celebrities-2018-2

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lol, none of those people look alike

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Oh get forked

Nah, I don't know, I can see similarities between Ronan and Streep, Hemsworth and Bridges, and Wilson and Trump (no offence Owen). While you're right, none of them are dead ringers, quite a few could pass as younger versions of those they're matched with. I could easily see Lawrence playing a younger Helen Mirren, for example.

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okie dokie

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"It - Chapter 2" is (albeit a mediocre movie) a perfect example of age counterparts done right.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/kids-vs-adults-it-chapter-two

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Whereas a really bad recent example is Love & Mercy. John Cusack and Paul Dano are not remotely convincing as the same person.

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Is it any worse than Stacy Martin and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Nymphomaniac? Of all the shocking things he shows in that film, the most audacious thing Lars von Trier did was try to convince us that one becomes the other in just the span of a couple years.

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The Eddie Kaspbrak actors were insanely close. Ransone captured every little nuance and action Grazer had and copied it perfectly. I truly believed I was looking at the same guy 30 years later.

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Some good ones... but Dalton and Stewart are only a few years apart and other than the hair, I really don't think Timothy looks significantly younger!

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I was thinking more along the lines of if we were to have a DeLorean time machine, how great it'd be to get an 80's Timothy Dalton to portray a young Professor X or Shinzon from Star Trek: Nemesis in the present.

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Chris Hemsworth/ Brad Pitt/ Robert Redford.

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I think a young Joanna Kulig/old Faye Dunaway might work as well.

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