Seems like if you want the shot to look handheld, shoot the first take handheld on a camera with good accelerometers, digitize the camera trajectory and reproduce it using motion control robot of some kind.
The Sagal sisters?
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“There’s something different about you today…”
“You mean how literally everything about me except my face is different from the man you’ve been married to for the last 20 years?”
“Yes, that’s it. When did your foreskin grow back, anyway?”
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Tatiana Maslany is a Canadian national treasure. An incredible actress. There are scenes where she’s playing one of her clones pretending to be a different clone with an intentionally fake-sounding version of an accent the other clone has that the actress doesn’t have to begin with, and it’s all utterly convincing. There aren’t enough hyperboles for what she’s doing in some of those scenes.
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Another under-appreciated example of actual twin casting is in Orange Is The New Black. The flashbacks to Sophia’s pre-transition life as a firefighter were played by her identical twin brother who is (to my knowledge) not trans. Talk about impressive casting work!
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Same here, for all the reasons you explained so well. My brother told me he was rewatching Fringe, and I told him after the whole Fauxlivia plot, I was done with that show.
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Conrad Bain and his brother Bonar Bain. Bonar had a “real job” (I know, I know) here in Edmonton, I think he was some kind of administrator. He appeared in a few shows like SCTV which was done here for a while. And a few times together with Conrad.
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Coming to America is still one of my favorites. The nightclub scenes still crack me up.
I’m kinda looking forward to Coming to America 2 - although I’m trying to keep my expectations low.
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One rare exception just occurred to me, the infamous San Francisco twins, Marian & Vivian Brown. They were not only both actresses, they still dressed alike, even as senior citizens.
RIP.
Mine too; my kid and I quote lines from it all the time, especially the nightclub scene.
I cannot say that I am looking forward to the sequel; the premise makes no logical sense.
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I mean, there’s a few, e.g. Category:Identical twin male actors - Wikipedia Category:Identical twin actresses - Wikipedia
but even on those short lists, there’s a lot of situations where one twin did some acting, but only a small amount compared to the other, and therefore isn’t actually known. It’s not a huge pool of talent to draw from, if you’re casting a twin part.
I hadn’t known that before. The casting director seriously lucked out there!
Although come to think of it, maybe not that rare. The identical twins I’ve known have tended to stick together (going to the same college, moving to the same city, working together or doing the same kind of work for decades), to a degree that just hasn’t been true with other siblings. But as children, it’s a matter of automatically being in that situation because of a lack of choices, and as adults there are a whole series of choices that have to be made by both siblings to end up in a similar situation.
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I meant the part about still dressing identically, and hanging out together all the time, well into their twilight years. That is rare.
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A sort-of inverse use of twins: Some friends are parents of identical twins who, as babies and toddlers, were in demand for commercials etc to film shots of a single non-twin little human-critter. This way, whichever kid is in the mood to do the camera-friendly stuff can be used while the other kid does their thing. And they could swap them when the camera-kid got tired.
As they get older, they look less and less alike, so I can see why it’s hard to cast “identical-looking” identical twins.
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Nope, again. I escaped the clutches of The Zeitgeist long ago.
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You’ve eliminated a pretty big swath of pop culture. It’s probably for the best. 
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That was how it worked with the toddler Michelle on Full House.
(I’m so happy for those twins that they grew up to look far less goblin-like as adults.)
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And slightly different body language as well, just enough to make it clear to the audience that this is the imposter clone. Not to mention that she’s sometimes doing this while interacting with a third clone.
A treasure, as you say.
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The twins I mentioned above were still living together in their mid-40s. They have relatively recent photos where they’re dressed alike, but I think they may just do that for photos. And they always seemed to be together. If just one was in the show, the other would usually tag along.
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Even if you just zero in on fooling one person there’s a lot of homework involved, apparently…
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