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Truly identical twins as actors would present really interesting opportunities for a stage play (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by TheTechnician27@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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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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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The actor for Sarah Connor has a twin? Nani?

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Linda and Leslie Hamilton, yes

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Omg TIL.

I thought identical twins were extremely rare...

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

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

They're definitely rare, far more rare than many of the similar things to them like their opposite (chimerism where multiple sets of DNA but one person) or fraternal twins. But there's a lot of people and identical twins have advantages for child acting especially but acting in general. Then consider that likelihood of identical twins is a genetic trait and getting a break in acting is much easier if you have family in the industry.

Long story short, it's rare enough that even if you know several twins you may not know any identicals, but common enough that it's not weird for random actors to have an identical twin. It's typically just a lucky thing though and they rarely cast around it except for children (labor laws)

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 points 17 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.