I keep eying the news of Jesse Eisenberg’s dual role in Richard Ayoade’s next movie The Double , based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella, with excitement about people who aren’t even involved with the project. If The Double , about “a Russian government clerk whose life unravels after what he believes is a literal facsimile of himself — same appearance, same name, same hometown — begins working in his office,” is a hit, will it popularize the idea of other actors playing dual roles? And who would we want to see act against his/her own mirror image?
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Talkback: Which Actors Should Play Opposite Themselves?
