{"id":14,"date":"2026-09-05T18:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/?p=14"},"modified":"2026-09-05T18:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:10:58","slug":"fans-thought-these-two-actors-were-the-same-person-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Fans thought these two actors were the same person for years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, fans thought <em>Smallville\u2019s<\/em> Jimmy Olsen and <em>X-Men\u2019s<\/em> Iceman were played by the same man. In reality, they\u2019re identical twins Aaron and Shawn Ashmore.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers began acting as children, and because they looked so alike, some casting decisions were reportedly settled with a coin toss.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tumblr_majoixvIXQ1r7b601o1_250sq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tumblr_majoixvIXQ1r7b601o1_250sq.jpg 250w, https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tumblr_majoixvIXQ1r7b601o1_250sq-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shawn became famous as Iceman in <em>X-Men<\/em> and later starred in <em>The Rookie<\/em>, while Aaron appeared in <em>Smallville<\/em>, <em>Warehouse 13<\/em>, and <em>Ginny &amp; Georgia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Decades later, they\u2019re still fooling viewers \u2014 and once you realize there are two of them, you\u2019ll never watch their shows the same way again. Talk about Hollywood\u2019s ultimate double take!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, fans thought Smallville\u2019s Jimmy Olsen and X-Men\u2019s Iceman were played by the same man. In reality, they\u2019re identical twins Aaron and Shawn Ashmore. The brothers began acting as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdview.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}