10 Great Twin versions in film and TV for ‘Sinners’

With Ryan Coogler’s Vampier thriller “Sinners” who places Michael B. Jordan against himself, cinema visitors are about to see double – but it is far from the first time that this trend has appeared in popular media.
2025 has seen the rise of Doubles with the turn of Robert Pattinson in “Mickey 17” by Bong Joon Ho and Adam Scott’s take the Innie and Outie versions of Mark in “Severance”. But since then people have feared the idea of Doppelgängers, twins can be seen in hundreds of stories over the years.
From the frightening turn of Vera Miles in a classic “Twilight Zone” episode, Lisa Kudrow’s view of a few bickering twins in “Friends” and Lupita Nyong’o’s iconic sag -nominated turn in Jordan Peele’s “Us” here and TV.
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Lupita Nyong’o as Adelaide Wilson/Red in ‘Us’
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Lupita Nyong’o, who won an Oscar for her work in “12 years a slave”, confirmed herself as a horror legend with her sagging work and both Adelaide Wilson and her horrific-bound-counterpart, red. Nyong’o plays every character with expert precision and timing while Adelaide is struggling to beat herself in her own murderous instincts. But it is only when director Jordan Peele picks up the rug from among the audience that viewers fully understand the secret of the youth that Adelaide has, a revelation that quietly planting Nyong’o from the start on that ominous beach pier.
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Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman in ‘Adaptation’
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What could be better than one Nicolas Cage performance? Two Nicolas Cage performance. In Charlie Kaufman’s Ultra-Meta, the writing process records, it is the double versions of Cage that humanize the creative travel. As Charlie, Cage is overwhelmed by his own ambitions, while his twin brother, Donald, suddenly changes career paths like Charlie. In the following years, Cage gave a number of great performances, but it has been told that his last Oscar was nomination for “adjustment” – No director has a whole know how to play for both Cage’s comic and dramatic strengths like Spike Jonze did here.
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Paul Dano as Eli Sunday/Paul Sunday in ‘There Will Be Blood’
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While Daniel Day Lewis’ Oscar-winning version in “There Will Be Blood” is rightly taught as an acting master class, Paul Dano’s ability to go with Lewis is Lewis, since both the Demon sucking Eli Sunday and his twin brother Paul Sunday is the performance. In fact, Dano was cast halfway through the shoot when Paul Thomas Anderson Kel O’Neill fired, leaving him for only four days to prepare. It is no coincidence that the most iconic line of the film (“I drink your milkshake!”) Is spoken directly with Dano, who sells the scene just as much with his pathetic broken reaction.
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Adam Scott as an Innie/OUTION Mark in ‘Severance’
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The exact moment when Mark gets on the elevator and in his “Innie” herself shifts the version of him that never easily misses the ordinary white walls of Lumon Industries. But Adam Scott makes a meal of the moment every time, with the light muscle twitching in his eyes and shift in posture. Even if there is nothing physically different about the two points, Scott makes two distinction halves of the same broken whole. The grief of OUTION Mark always drips down in one way or another. And it is only when Innie and Outie Mark finally meet in season 2 that we fully understand how complicated Scott the Power Balance has played.
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Robert Pattinson as Mickey 17/Mickey 18 in ‘Mickey 17’
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The most recent film input in this list is a welcome one. Robert Pattinson only continues to make daring and interesting choices in his career, as he does in the latest position of Bong Joon Ho. We are immediately introduced to Mickey 17 with his strange but fascinating baby-like voice-by-the actor says he emulated from looking at Johnny Knoxville in “Jackass.” But despite how crazy Mickey’s attitude is, and the film as a whole can be, Pattinson still manages to live the humanity of his character and excavated desire to live and love to the surface. That is only strengthened if we meet the rigid, many physically more physically fed Mickey 18. When the two go in, it’s a great sight to see.
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Margot Kidder as Danielle Breton/Dominique Blanchion in ‘Sisters’
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The deceased Margot Kidder is often associated with her work in “Superman”, but it is her iconic turn in Brian de Palma’s Hitchcock-like thriller who set her up for later horror success in “Black Christmas” and “The Amityville Horror.” Like both Danielle Breton and Dominique Blanchion, Kidder plays a set of merged twins with an unknown past. During the infamous murder scene of the film that turns into a split-screen showcase, Danielle unleashes her inner Dominique. The most horrible part is how Danielle justifies her actions and ultimately brings the curious journalist Grace (Jennifer Salt) under her spell.
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Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe/Ursula in ‘Friends’
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While ‘friends’ is known for his strong ensemble -cast, Lisa Kudrow had the opportunity to play against herself with the broken relationship between Sister’s Phoebe and Ursula, who originally appeared as a waitress in ‘Mad About You’. When Ursula pops up in the city, Phoebe’s feelings of jealousy come by growing up with her sister to the surface, giving Lusa Kudrow the chance to expand the background story of her character beyond the main -friendly group. (Fun fact: the sister of Lisa Kudrow, Helene Marla Kudrow, a body -double was used!)
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Vera Miles as a millicent Barnes in ‘The Twilight Zone: Mirror Image’
Do you ever get the feeling that you are not alone in this world? That suspicious fear of the Doppelgänger effect is creepy recorded by the performance of Vera Miles as a millicent Barnes in season 1, episode 21 of “The Twilight Zone.” While her suitcase is always shaken around and the ticket agent tells her that she has previously asked the same questions, Miles perfectly explains the dead end feeling of nobody you believe. The scariest moment in this episode contains no jumping frights or spirits lurking in the dark. It is rather the appearance of pure pain when Millicent looks at the bus that drove away – just to see her own reflection stare at her immediately.
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Hayley Mills like Susan Evers/Sharon McKendrick in ‘The Parent Trap’
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While Lindsay Lohan gave an iconic achievement in the 1998 family classic ‘The Family Trap’, she has Hayley Mills in the original of 1961 to thank as a precedent. Mills plays teenage wins Sharon Evers and Sharon McKendrick who, after a meeting in a summer camp, to come up with a plan to change households and get their divorced parents together again. In both parts, Mills brought comic charm and even demonstrated her singing carbonades with the song “Let’s Get Together”.
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Armie Hammer as Tyler Winklevoss/Cameron Winklevoss in ‘The Social Network’
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The now controversial hammer played a set of shower bag twins in the classic ‘The Social Network’ by David Fincher 2010. The Winklevoss Twins are an example of privileges and companies, because they propose to collaborate with Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) on the establishment of Facebook. But while the twins go against each other with Mark, Hammer lets the legal conversation spit out because they realize that special treatment will not always be at their disposal in life.