10 Actors Audiences Are Convinced Are In Movies (But Aren't)

10. Matthew McConaughey - The Dark Knight Rises

After Matthew McConaughey was cast in Interstellar, a theory began doing the rounds online that the actor had actually made a minor cameo appearance in Christopher Nolan's prior film, The Dark Knight Rises, seemingly foreshadowing his involvement in the director's next big tentpole.

During the opening sequence in which Bane (Tom Hardy) is extracted from a CIA plane, the plane's pilot is briefly visible for a few seconds, and many later believed the actor playing the pilot to be McConaughey in a sneaky cameo.

Even today, you'll find Nolan fans who still swear that this is indeed the Oscar-winning actor, and though the man in question certainly does bear a strong resemblance to McConaughey, it just isn't him.

After all, what's more plausible, that Nolan had McConaughey show up on set to shoot two seconds of footage for a cameo nobody involved ever even talked about, or it's just a guy that looks like him?