Double take: the weird and wonderful world of celebrity lookalikes
03.07.2022 - 16:23
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Pirates of the Caribbean film, but the other guests wouldn’t shut up about his likeness to Depp’s lead character. “They went on about it so much that I ended up just deciding to give it a go,” he explains. “I’m still amazed by the reaction I get.
No one knows I’m Scottish. I do the voice, the mannerisms. I have whole conversations in character.
I’ve seen a couple of other guys and they can only do lines from the movie. ”But the last few years haven’t exactly been straightforward for Macdonald, a single father, and certainly Depp’s court appearances haven’t helped. “I wasn’t following it at all though a lot of my mates were.
If he was found to be that sort of person, I’d have had to give it all up, I wouldn’t have been happy portraying someone like that. I’ve had cars stop in the street and ask how the trial’s going. I’ve had people come up to me and say ‘wife beater’ and stuff like that.
”Certainly, the career of a celebrity lookalike is not for the easily disheartened. There are few more unstable or fickle industries, by its very nature. At no time is your fate really your own, but instead that of the celeb you happen to be impersonating.
Fashions change and scandals break. Elections sweep household-name politicians into immediate obscurity and beloved football managers are guillotined with spectacular ruthlessness. One unforeseeable move and tidy livelihoods can be reduced to rubble with dizzying speed.
UK lookalike history is filled with the ghosts of the disgraced or the permanently out of fashion, from Rolf Harris to Tony Blair. If this in-built precarity was a cost of doing business before 2020, then matters weren’t improved by the onset of the pandemic. When Covid hit, it didn’t really matter who you were or how
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