The actor for Sarah Connor has a twin? Nani?
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teft@piefed.social 2 days ago
Terminator 2 uses identical twins twice. Once when T1000 copies the cop drinking coffee and later when the T1000 copies Sarah Connor.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Linda and Leslie Hamilton, yes
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Omg TIL.
I thought identical twins were extremely rare…
Did they specifially pick an actor that have an identical twin? Lmao
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 day 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 days ago
That’s awesome, I never know about this!
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 day 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.