By Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic A single performer’s double act is among the showier maneuvers that can be attempted on film.
There’s the technical aspect: Getting one actor, twice, into the same frame — or cutting to fool the mind into thinking that’s so — is inevitably showy. (When David Fincher cast one Armie Hammer to play two Winklevoss twins in “The Social Network,” it felt, more than anything, like an attempt to show off all the director could do.) And, too, there’s the way it maximizes the performer, giving opportunities for more acting as — from Nicolas Cage in “Adaptation” to James Franco in “The Deuce” to, yes, Lindsay Lohan in “The Parent Trap,” performers amp up the differences in their dual portrayals.
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