11 Amazing Times Actors Played Other Actors Playing Characters 

11. Face/Off

The Players: Nic Cage and John Travolta playing each other

Mode Of Body Swap: Facial transplant, microchip implant, 3D-printed flesh and a buttload of plastic surgery

Seriously, beyond paraphrasing one of the best/grossest quotes in the movie, there is so much to unpack in Face/Off’s body swapping technology. Like why it isn’t being used to save lives, or help burn victims or amputees or just regular everyday folks who want to switch faces.

Instead of doing any of that, they use this world-changing technology exclusively for the most utterly cuckoo-bananas undercover operation ever conceived.

And thank goodness they do, because Nic Cage is at his most outCAGEous and Travolta cranks up the TraVOLTS to dangerously shocking levels. Analyzing these performances almost seems pointless and stupid. If you have seen Face/Off, you’re probably replaying the highlights in your mind right now.

If you haven’t seen Face/Off, please stop reading this article immediately, watch Face/Off, watch an encore performance of Face/Off, and then release two white doves into the air.