So Top Management and I just started watching the Cinemax television show Banshee, which neither of us had even heard of before, until Cinemax started running ads, trumpeting its upcoming second season. So we checked out the first season and, after only four episodes, Top Management has already decided it's Her Favoritest Show EVAH. (Disclaimer: she says this about every new show she enjoys. She's a fickle thing, as I well know, and I expect to be tossed aside Any Day Now for a new and improved model, who may or may not, in fact, be a model.)
Anyhoo, we were a few minutes into the first epi when she said, "Who do I think he is? I mean, I know he's not, but who do I think he is?"
"Liev Schrieber," I said. "Sabretooth, the bad guy from the bad Wolverine movie? And the utterly unnecessary The Manchurian Candidate remake?"
"Yup," she agreed. "That's who he's not but I was thinking he was."
A few nights later, she said, "Hey, remind me: who do I think he is? I mean, I know he's not, but who do I think he is?"
And this time my mind was a blank. Because we'd now watched several episodes and now he was who he was for me and I couldn't see who he wasn't anymore.
So naturally, I googled. And autofill informed me that Antony Starr looks like...Scott Speedman?
No, he doesn't. I mean, yeah, okay, he kinda does, but nowhere near as much as the guy I couldn't think of any more.
So I left it blank and hit enter. And on the first page of results is a hit that says Antony Starr looks like Ray Stevenson. Which, again, yeah, okay, I can kinda see that. Only not really, not nearly as much as he looks like the guy I couldn't think of any more.
And then I remembered. And as a service to others, I'll just leave this here.
(He does kinda look like a much smaller, younger Ray Stevenson.)
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[UPDATE AUGUST 2019: yeah, he was pretty incredible in The Boys, no? And barely recognizable to someone who'd seen him in Banshee. So. Good.]
Your Top Management should check out Ant...that's his nickname, btw...in a little movie no one has ever heard of called After the Waterfall. He's great in that. I became a super fan of his after watching just the first three episodes of his New Zealand tv series Outrageous Fortune...in which he played twins (one really sleazy and the other brain damaged) for six years. He looked like...ah...himself.
Posted by: Charlotte Boyett-Compo | Monday, December 16, 2013 at 08:48 PM
I'd thought that they were the same person for over a year until just today. It's good to know that I'm not the only one who thinks they look alike. I'm usually really good with faces, but these guys fooled me.
Posted by: Lois james | Monday, August 24, 2015 at 06:29 PM