Tuesday
Jun072011
Twins
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 2:14PM 
Lets get together yeahyeahyeah ♫ think of all that we could sha-areI had such a great birthday yesterday. Thanks to everyone who sent virtual or telepathic happy day wishes. And thanks to all of you who liven things up here everyday with your presence and comments. Today I was thinking about twins, as its a Gemini thing. (Happy birthday to all Gemini readers!) I always wanted a twin and my favorite movie as a little kid was The Parent Trap.
Which movie star do you most wish had a twin?
Why? I mean besides the obvious reason: There'd be twice their wonderfulness around.
tagged Birthday, The Parent Trap, twins
Birthday, The Parent Trap, twins
Reader Comments (6)
Sharon Stone hands down!! Enough crazy for a twin :-)
Smitty -- ohshit. you know Joe Esterhazs and Paul Verhoeven would've exploited that too!
Happy belated birthday, Nathaniel!
Hmm, maybe Jake Gyllenhaal? I'm not sure though..
Regarding "The Parent Trap". Most people (outside of Germany that is) probably don't realise that it's a remake of a German film called "Das doppelte Lottchen" (1950) or rather that both films are adaptations of a novel by German author Erich Kästner (though apparently, Kästner got the idea from the 1936 film "Three Smart Girls", it's all a little confusing). Anyway, I've always adored "Das doppelte Lottchen" and when I was looking for some clips I discovered that the complete movie is on YouTube (with English subtitles!). Kästner himself wrote the screenplay and acts as narrator. It's not a masterpiece or anything, but it's really rather cute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDaSxRj1818
The twins are played by actual twins: Jutta and Isa Günther.
Ryan Gosling. We’ll have the Indie Gosling who works on small unnoticed movies and the twin, the Commercial Gosling who works on big budgeted movies, like sci-fi movies and action ones. I don’t think we can handle two Goslings right now.
Helena Bonham Carter. But she'd (they'd?) be born in the 19th century - one would be Kate Croy and one would be Helen Schlegel. The end.
First of all, Happy Belated Birthday! Sorry I missed it but I was travelling between continents (that sounds so much better than coming bqck from Israel).
As a twin myself, who loves loves loves "The Parent Trap", I always secretly wished Hayley Mills had an actual twin. It wouldn't diminish her amazing work in creating these two characters, but I still vividly remember feeling a little jipped when I first found out it was just one person.. My twin and I were kind of heartbroken.
And for your actual question... Most of the stars I like are so unique and individual, and their persona is so based off of the fact that there could never be anyone like them - i.e, Streisand - so it's really hard for me to imagine them being twins. That said... I would have loved another Cary Grant! :-)