MetaChat - Hollywood makes the movie of your life story. In your worst nightmare who plays you?

MetaChat is an informal place for MeFites to touch base and post, discuss and chatter about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter. Questions? Check the FAQ. Please note: This is important.

07 May 2007

Hollywood makes the movie of your life story. In your worst nightmare who plays you? →[More:]

Should be someone B list or lower who vaguely resembles you in looks and temprament.

post by: rainbaby at: 07:59 | 29 comments

David Arquette in a wig.

posted by cortex 07 May | 08:04

Liza Minelli, because it definitely should be the other way around.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 May | 08:06

Danny de Vito in drag.

posted by essexjan 07 May | 08:12

Roseanna Arquette.

I swear that was my answer - that's hysterical cortex. Highly annoying acting family, hu?

posted by rainbaby 07 May | 08:12

I use to get John Cusack a lot. With the new look, I was going for Timothy Olyphant, but came out more like Jason Lee. So, Jason Lee.

posted by jonmc 07 May | 08:13

John Malkovich. No question.

posted by psmealey 07 May | 08:13

That guy who played the killer in Silence of the Lambs.

posted by danostuporstar 07 May | 08:17

Kyle MacLachlan.

posted by misteraitch 07 May | 08:27

Margaret Cho.

posted by brina 07 May | 08:30

Oh dano, you gotta link to that guy.

Look!

Somebody put a wig on cortex. I even do that in pictures - peace sign!

ew ew ew!!!

posted by rainbaby 07 May | 08:31

Oh, turns out his chin is way too strong for me.

A wig on cortex would be redundant as I understand the world.

Peace.

posted by danostuporstar 07 May | 08:44

Katie Holmes. I hates her.

*shudder*

In a perfect world, Angelina Jolie.

posted by LunaticFringe 07 May | 08:47

Kevin Smith.

posted by BoringPostcards 07 May | 08:47

(the Jason Lee thing is actually getting a little weird. At thepinksuperhero's birthday party, several of her friends started calling me 'Earl.')

posted by jonmc 07 May | 08:48

Kelly Osbourn, or Kelly Clarkson.

posted by muddgirl 07 May | 09:06

Bjork, Sandra Tsing Loh, or Gong Li. Wow, I have the willies now.

Margaret Cho would be alright. Michelle Yeoh would be great but we don't look alike.

Once Margaret Cho presented a screening of one "I'm the One That I Want." She pretended to be an usher to be funny. She tore my friend's ticket and he joked, "So they've got you tearing tickets now huh?" She glared at us.

posted by halonine 07 May | 09:27

Peewee Herman.

Okay okay OKAY!!!!

posted by Doohickie 07 May | 10:29

Mindy Cohn. *shudder*

posted by FlamingBore 07 May | 10:56

Roseanne Barr.

posted by bunnyfire 07 May | 11:39

Resembling me in looks and temperament pretty much guarantees that someone will never even make it as far as the B-list level.

That said--You know that one guy, who's conventionally handsome, and appears in unchallenging movies that make hundreds of millions of dollars, but none of this makes any sense to me, because he's so obviously a talentless, crazy asshole? Him.

posted by box 07 May | 11:53

220 pounds of chopped liver in a Goonies t-shirt.

posted by Divine_Wino 07 May | 12:03

Philip Seymour Hoffman. I fear that I may one day become creepy enough to be played by him.

posted by craniac 07 May | 13:44

The alien that came out of that guy's stomach.

posted by chewatadistance 07 May | 14:20

No celebrity really looks like me. Maybe if you got a big professional wrestler, who got a buzzcut and let himself go to flab... yeah, that might be good fodder for nightmares.

posted by King of Prontopia 07 May | 14:44

Meg Ryan. God, how I have always hated her.

posted by jrossi4r 07 May | 15:19

Anthony Michael Hall. Geek as a kid ... aging gracefully.

posted by netbros 07 May | 23:13

Keanu Reeves. A cheese danish would be preferable, and would have more range.

posted by bmarkey 07 May | 23:20

I have a friend that not only looks almost exactly like Keanu, he also dresses like and has the temper tantrums of Johnny Mnemonic. "I want roomservice and ironed shirts!"

If it was really terrible nightmare and made for Hallmark TV film, Paris Hilton which is wrong in so many ways and thirty pounds off. If it's straight-to-video, they'd have Madonna play me - but at least she's fit and my size (read: short). I don't know which is worse really.

posted by dabitch 08 May | 07:33

I use to get John Cusack a lot. With the new look, I was going for Timothy Olyphant, but came out more like Jason Lee. So, Jason Lee.

Dude, I have never seen you in person (my loss), but from pictures I have seen (from last week's meetup), I'd say you were a dead ringer for Mike Watt.

posted by psmealey 12 May | 18:48

← LCD Soundsystem remixed. || Who's afraid of quarters? →

HOME || REGISTER || LOGIN