to think that Mackenzie Crook and Stephen Merchant are the same person.

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Just having a argument discussion with DH. We've just binge watched Detectorists and I made a comment comparing it to Outlaws. DH was completely confused as he claims they are different actors. It's a while since we watched Outlaws (which we loved) but I'm 100% sure that Mackenzie Crook was in both. Even though Wikipedia tells me otherwise.

Is anyone else convinced that they are the same person?

I do have form for this - I muddle up Leonardo Di Caprio and Matt Damon, and Will Smith with Samuel L Jackson. I mean, I can visualise them in my head and know they look completely different, but on screen it's more challenging.

I don't really do it with women. Although Jessica Chastain and Amy Adams have posed a challenge at times.....

As an aside, do people consider Mackenzie Crook attractive? I can never quite make up my mind!

Absolutely not 😷

Wow I didn't know that 😂

I thought Jesse Plemons (Breaking Bad, first season of Fargo) was Matt Damon's younger brother for ages. Mystified as to why no one referenced it in interviews etc.

In my defence I was far from the only person to spot the resemblance between them. Apparently the poor guy was known as Meth Damon for ages!

@Nellieinthebarn aren't they the same guy?!

Totally get the Mackenzie Crook and Stephen Merchant they look so alike to me, same eyes, same mouth, skinny face, gangly, yep to me can’t tell the difference.

So did I

Apparently not. I couldn't get the link to work to a photo of them together. One is Gosling, one is Reynolds. Dont ask which is which.

😂😂

Can't see the resemblance between McKenzie Crook and Stephen Merchant though. They're thinner than average and have a nerdy awkwardness but facially look nothing alike.

I suppose they have a similar cadence to their voices but McKenzie is quite Kent/estuary while Stephen is pure Brizzle

I think Amanda abbington and Katherine Parkinson were in an advert together. Maltesers?

😂 They might be twins?

Selma Hayek and Penelope Cruz for me. And back in the dAY Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman

Philip Glenister and David Morrissey are the same person

Thank you! I too suffer from Ryan blindness. I actually fancy one and not the other, but can’t figure it out unless I see them both together. Which one is Ken?

Katherine Parkinson WAS in the IT Crowd and Sherlock

@ScrambledSmegs I watched "Games Night" at the cinema when it came out and spent the whole film thinking that Matt Damon had put on a lot of weight......

Surely there's a couple of decades between them!

I can't tell the difference between the two Ryans either.

I didn’t realise Adam Thomas and Ryan Thomas were different people but I suppose I’ve got an excuse at least they’re brothers 🤔

Ben Miller and Rob Brydon. Could be twins!

This thread is hilarious. I'm googling all these people going oh yeah they're so alike.
Brilliant

I thought Mackenzie was American !

Tom Hanks and Bill Murray are the same person. I knew this for years and then in 2016 this photo came out and other people saw the light too.

There is a film called the departed with Matt Damon, Leonardo di Caprio & Mark Walburg. It was the most confusing 2 hours of my whole life - they all look exactly the same!

@nancy75 sounds very confusing!

Ok I've just realised that Katherine Ryan and Katherine Parkinson aren't the same person either