We all look alike to someone who doesn’t care about the fine details in life. There is an old saying that goes, “Every living person in the world has a doppelganger (a double or twin) that could pass for them.”
But when you actually meet your doppelganger in person you realize you don’t resemble at all. You don’t even look like you could pass for sisters. The fact that others think you do is puzzling and even insulting.
Imagine how actress Thandie Newton (pictured left) felt when British socialite and fashion designer Victoria Beckham confused her for actress Zoe Saldana.
“Recently I was in SoulCycle in L.A. and Victoria Beckham who I have actually met a few times was there,” the British actress told Graham Norton.
She said they spoke for a few minutes before she realized Beckham had mistaken her for Guardians of the Galaxy star, Saldana, who was pregnant with twins at the time.
“We were chatting away when she said, ‘It’s so great that you are here when you are pregnant.’ I said, ‘I actually had my baby a couple of months ago.’
“We carried on chatting and it was obvious she thought I was someone else so I said, ‘Do you think I am Zoe Saldana?'”
Newton added: “Victoria was absolutely mortified! It was actually okay as Zoe is a rare beauty, but really? Up close? Come on! And, I am British!”
Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman must also grin and bear it as people who never met him claim he has a twin halfway around the world.
Suleiman Abdulfatai, left, whose Twitter username is @fhatoh_s, didn’t even see the Black Panther film when it was released in theaters.
He said he went to see it after people began referring to him as King of the fictional African nation Wakanda due to his cursory resemblance to Boseman.
Abdulfatai, 31, posted his selfie on Twitter.com where it went viral as others picked up on his slight resemblance to Boseman.
Like Newton and Saldana, there is definitely not enough of a resemblance to mistake Abdulfatai for Boseman.
But Twitter users pride themselves on making the connection between two strangers who don’t really don’t look alike at all.
And we wonder why so many innocent people are locked up for years due to false identification.
Ok! Good morning to you, Sandra… long weekend was great!!!
I don’t see any resemblance. Thandie and Zoe look nothing alike. Victoria really messed this one up lol.
Ashley Graham looks just like Eva Mendes in the face and I still get my red heads Isla Fisher and Amy Adams mixed up. Still. to this DAY.
Isla Fisher and Amy Adams definitely favor
Thandie and Zoe don’t look alike. That young man and Chadwick do favor though.
I also…when it was announced Jesse Williams was fooling around with Minka…I thought it was Leighton Mester. I saw a pic and I was like why do they have Leighton’s pic up…calling her Minka?
I just googled those two and wow they could pass for twins or siblings for sure
Dude looks just like him .. ???
I always say they need to play sisters in a movie.
So, Thandie and Victoria had talked on a few occasions before and Victoria still mistook Thandie for Zoe? Disrespectful. LoL.
Guilty. I get Zoe Saldana and Joy Bryant mixed up all the time.
P Spice comes across as a very miserable person.
I wish Sallie Mae (Navient) would mistake me for somebody with a zero balance.
Ross and Russ… They take the cake lol
Lol!
im shock she even spoke tho…
Either Beckham is self absorbed or just meets too many people to know the difference? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6668e7b65af6429d9063ed0249b30211a04c02aec48de1640d619ec7fbf99d4a.gif
Love Thandie Newton in Westworld and Sunday’s night episode was amazing! Thandie Newton should take the mix-up as a compliment because Zoe Saldana is younger than her but both are pretty. I mix up Isla Fisher and Amy Adams all the time.
Lol damn,she even said they’ve met a FEW times.
Good morning. The two actresses look nothing alike. Vic might need glasses.
This is nothing new ????? people with the same hue as Victoria ??????????think all people of color look alike. Just like they all smell like wet dog and bologna when their hair is wet to me. ?????
Thandie is an ok actress, but I don’t like her on Westworld. I’m so sleep on her character.
Easy mistake the other time I was getting my camera out to take a picture of what ithought was Victoria Beckham actually turned out to be a sapling ? (yeah I know a very weak joke) ?
Umm dude really could pass for Chadwick. Thandie and Zoe are both bad actresses that’s the only resemblance. LOL.
Me too.
I used to get them mixed up because both their acting is just plain turrible. But damn Vic how do you meet someone SEVERAL times before and still get it wrong? Either you did that shyt on purpose or you just slow
This is nothing new ????? people with the same hue as Victoria ??????????think all people of color look alike. Just like they all smell like wet dog and bologna when their hair is wet to me. ?????
Chadwick is growing on me.
I may have to add him to my list!
#wakandaforever
Me too
they look nothing alike .. she tried you.
All i got from this article is that Victoria actually speaks
He really does.
Victoria Beckham lips look weird. Anyway, talk about an overrated white woman.
I think she’s just an airhead. No hate, she’s stylish, successful, a great mother, but I just don’t think she thinks deeply or remembers much of anything. We all know a person with a “whatever” type of attitude.
LOL
I watched him in Message from the King on Netflix this past weekend and he was giving me a lil (just a lil) Edris Elba vibe #wakandaforever
they both look alike, who cares?
LOLLOLLOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Sallie Mae, don’t even bring up this heffa. Why won’t she just move and stop bothering folks?
So disrespectful. And would be the main one to enter a room like everyone there’s supposed to know who SHE (Victoria) is.
They’re both black, thin actresses. That’s it.
Facts!
That is definitely a strong resemblance. He looks like a younger version of Chadwick. Chadwick just might be Nigerian…
This is what we doing TUDAy.
Informative write up… they think we look the same anyway.
I just added it to my watch list. How was it?
ohh!
let me add to my list!
Thanks sis!
THIS!!!
A little low budget, but worth watching
Enjoy!
Or maybe higher then a minkcoat!!!!!
They do look very much alike.
I bet her ass doesn’t get David’s mistresses mixed up ?.
Zoe Saldana and Thandie Newton are mid level actresses with brown skin and fine hair, they are both skin and bones, and have white husbands…can see how Posh got them mixed up. There’s nothing especially striking about either woman, Zoe just has more exposure and mainstream movies under her belt.
Hahahahahaha
What mistresses?! They had one cheating scandal years ago and that’s all I can remember.
Lol! Right! I use to wish she did repossessions.
WELP!
And probably drugs
Cool, watching this weekend, thank you!!
LOL! WTF is Sallie Mae anyway and why’s she so unforgiving? Who peed in her Cheerios?!
Aw . . . . damn
I’m gonna excuse myself here . . .
you know what…..honest mistake lol who watches Westworld????!!!!! Thandie is THAAAAATTTTTT BEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIII!!!
zoe & thandie do resemble tho
Crine laughing
That skinny hag didn’t or couldn’t even bother to actually look in someone’s face. I hope she remember’s the black woman who takes her husband’s frome her face.
OMG who u tellin…done graduated & I’m still on a payment plan for they ass
U ain’t lyin because I remember confusing the two before myself.
Sandras last line would make a great graduate thesis.
How often are criminals mistakenly identified.
Homeboy look nothing like Chadwick
you know they think we all look alike