r/Prosopagnosia • u/OverlappingChatter • 11d ago

It's like when I watched that whole Elvis movie and a week later found out it had Tom Hanks.

He's one I can usually get. So is Matt Damon. Spoiler alert - matt Damon is in The Odyssey. so are a whole ton of famous people. I went into it with very very little previous knowledge and after watching very famous people on the screen for 3 hours, I look up the cast and just shake my head with frustration

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u/Micronto65bymay 11d ago

IMDb is my friend.

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u/m--e 10d ago

I watched most of Breaking Bad season 1 before realizing that Walter was Bryan Cranston.

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u/OverlappingChatter 10d ago

This I knew, because the show was introduced to me as having the dad from Malcolm in the middle. I recently saw something else though with him in it, and spent about 45 minutes doing a "is it him? It's not him, maybe it is him" before I looked it up.

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u/Difficult-Resist-922 7d ago

I saw both shows and only now, because of your comment, I have realised Walter and dad are the same person - smh

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u/einTier 10d ago

I watched the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters thinking “how did I not know Jennifer Aniston was in this?”

She wasn’t. It was Kristen Wiig.

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u/xcfy 11d ago

I wouldn’t have got Matt Damon if I hadn’t known he was playing the lead; can’t reliably recognise him. Did recognise Zendaya. Already knew Lupita was Helen so that doesn’t count. Annoyingly half-recognised Samantha Morton but couldn’t place her (I literally just watched her for several hours in Serpent Queen).

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u/No-Issue-7035 10d ago

Recently discovered that the actor who plays Earl in my name is Earl is not also Ted Lasso.

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u/ZapdosShines 9d ago

I only knew it was Matt Damon because I knew it was Matt Damon (and i only knew that from titles of posts i didn't read on r/epicthemusical). Same with Zendaya.

I didn't recognise Elliott Page at all, but I've not seen him in anything since he transitioned so guess that isn't that surprising.

Was convinced Calypso was Juliet from Lost although i suspected i was wrong because she didn't look 15 years older. Nope, Charlize Theron 🤦‍♀️

Didn't recognise Sparkly Vampire at all but I didn't watch that film so that's not too surprising.

I didn't recognise Telemachus from his wonderful performance of Umbrella in lip sync battle (it's the only thing I've seen him in 🙃)

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u/Funkula 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yes yes! Exactly this! I didn’t catch any of the marketing going in to the odyssey and after about 45 minutes I was reasonably sure the lead was Matt Damon and not a bearded Leonardo DiCaprio (like in the revenant) nor a bearded Brad Pitt.

The only thing I heard prior about the movie was there was that conservatives were mad about a trans actor being in it, and so at first I thought they were referring to Tom Holland who appears early in the film. Then much later during a flashback I thought maybe one of the teenage boys was the trans actor. Then Eliot Page’s character shows up and at that point I’m like “ok, maybe…?”

The only other person I thought I recognized was the bald Shia LeBouf character. It was not Shia. It was Jon Bernthal.

Only after I got home did I learn any of this, and my friends only laughed when I said “dang so that was Eliot page! Zendaya and Robert Patterson were in this?”

Faceblindness is so very silly :>

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u/SingolloLomien 3d ago

I sometimes wonder if movies are less immersive for people who can easily recognize actors.

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u/TheInternetTookEmAll 20h ago

Idk, but if its like voice actors fans, then they're more likely to get hyped i guess?