8 Great Double Performances From A Single Actor

It's quite difficult for an actor to convincingly play one movie character, with all their faults, tics and foibles. Even the greatest actors in the world don't always get the complexities of a performance right, even with all their attention focused on the part. Imagine the difficulty, then, of one actor facing down the challenge of playing not one character, but two, in the exact same goddamn movie.

Brogan Morris

Published: Nov 25, 2015 10:00 am

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5) Sam Rockwell In Moon

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Sam Rockwell has always been the next big thing that – for whatever reason – could never quite reach the star status he deserved. Not that he hasn’t given some great performances in his career, proving just why he should be more major than he is; chief among them is Duncan Jones’ Moon, a sci-fi chamber piece and mystery thriller that places Sam Rockwell’s Sam Bell all alone on a lunar mining facility.

Well, not completely alone. Moon is the movie that taps into Rockwell’s appeal as an actor best because it encourages him to show off the two most valuable sides of himself – the crazed, high-energy trickster, and the poignant, screen-commanding thespian – as Sam and his unwanted clone. It’s perhaps the ultimate example of a double role, because Rockwell acts opposite no other human but himself in Moon, and makes the movie seriously compelling because of it.

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Brogan Morris