{"id":18037,"date":"2025-03-10T07:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T06:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/twins-rivals-clones-hollywood-is-doubling-down-on-dual-roles\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T07:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T06:37:52","slug":"twins-rivals-clones-hollywood-is-doubling-down-on-dual-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/twins-rivals-clones-hollywood-is-doubling-down-on-dual-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins! Rivals! Clones! Hollywood is doubling down on dual roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Michael B Jordan are all pulling double duty in their new films and that\u2019s just the start<\/p>\n<p>For years, dual roles have been played largely for laughs. Think of Adam Sandler\u2019s Razzie-sweeping twin turn in Jack and Jill, or Lisa Kudrow as both Phoebe and Ursula Buffay on Friends. Eddie Murphy was always particularly prolific, his most multiplicitous performance as a clutch of Klumps for Nutty Professor II.<\/p>\n<p>There are exceptions, of course. But for every Legend or The Prestige there are ten Austin Powers, Bowfingers and \u2013 shudder \u2013 Norbits. This year, however, is giving us a more dramatic breed of duplicate. Robert De Niro will pull double Don duty in The Alto Knights, Michael B Jordan will play twin leads in the supernatural Sinners and a pair of Robert Pattinson clones is currently headlining Bong Joon-ho\u2019s Mickey 17.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/mar\/10\/hollywood-dual-roles-robert-pattinson\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/aa80f46a3c15f2d17f50de7c4fa908d7765e0076\/0_227_3411_2047\/master\/3411.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c72a44c4607f7e3f0493d5025f9aa05e\" title=\"Twins! Rivals! Clones! Hollywood is doubling down on dual roles\" \/>Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Michael B Jordan are all pulling double duty in their new films and that\u2019s just the start<br \/>\nFor years, dual roles have been played largely for laughs. Think of Adam Sandler\u2019s Razzie-sweeping twin turn in Jack and Jill, or Lisa Kudrow as both Phoebe and Ursula Buffay on Friends. Eddie Murphy was always particularly prolific, his most multiplicitous performance as a clutch of Klumps for Nutty Professor II.<br \/>\nThere are exceptions, of course. But for every Legend or The Prestige there are ten Austin Powers, Bowfingers and \u2013 shudder \u2013 Norbits. This year, however, is giving us a more dramatic breed of duplicate. Robert De Niro will pull double Don duty in The Alto Knights, Michael B Jordan will play twin leads in the supernatural Sinners and a pair of Robert Pattinson clones is currently headlining Bong Joon-ho\u2019s Mickey 17. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Michael B Jordan are all pulling double duty in their new films and that\u2019s just the start For years, dual roles have been played largely for laughs. Think of Adam Sandler\u2019s Razzie-sweeping twin turn in Jack and Jill, or Lisa Kudrow as both Phoebe and Ursula Buffay on Friends. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/twins-rivals-clones-hollywood-is-doubling-down-on-dual-roles\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twins! Rivals! Clones! Hollywood is doubling down on dual roles<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}