Comment on Truly identical twins as actors would present really interesting opportunities for a stage play

• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Omg TIL.

  I thought identical twins were extremely rare…

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

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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