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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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You couldn't fully write the play around them if you wanted to to put it on reliably, but you could probably take some interesting shortcuts. "Oh, the protagonist is supposed to wake up from a nightmare in a nervous sweat? Okay, cut to black while they're in the nightmare scene; moments later, open the lights on another part of the stage where the identical twin actor is fully dressed in pajamas and wakes up in bed."

As long as you juggled this right, you could have a character that teleports and changes costumes instantly. I've never done theatre, but this sounds versatile.

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[–] teft@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Terminator 2 uses identical twins twice. Once when T1000 copies the cop drinking coffee and later when the T1000 copies Sarah Connor.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Also most famously in the scene where Connor is messing about with T2's head or whatever, before a mirror. They had a stand-in for Schwarzenegger, but had Hamiltons on both sides of the ‘mirror’. But that scene might've been deleted or only in an extended edit, idk.

And iirc when Connor has the nuke dream, she sees herself on the playground, again via the power of having two of the twins.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The actor for Sarah Connor has a twin? Nani?

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Linda and Leslie Hamilton, yes

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Omg TIL.

I thought identical twins were extremely rare...

Did they specifially pick an actor that have an identical twin? Lmao

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

It was a happy coincidence. They didn’t need twins in the original Terminator, but in T2 the second terminator could change appearances. Linda’s sister was used when the terminator appeared as Sarah Connor.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 22 hours ago

That's awesome, I never know about this!