ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS

For an actor, playing a real person carries a certain responsibility to be true and respectful to the figure you're pretending to be. But it becomes even more of a challenge to recreate someone who the audience is intimately familiar with, namely another famous actor. Here's a gallery of movie stars playing other movie stars...

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ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS

For an actor, playing a real person carries a certain responsibility to be true and respectful to the figure you're pretending to be. But it becomes even more of a challenge to recreate someone who the audience is intimately familiar with, namely another famous actor. Here's a gallery of movie stars playing other movie stars, and tell us in the comments how you think they stack up against the real deal.

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