10 Actors Who Played The Same Character In Completely Different Movies

The Characters: Jay and Silent Bob

The Movies: Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse films and Scream 3

One of the perks of being a director and sometime actor who has built an indie cinematic universe is that you can repeatedly give yourself roles in your own films, as is the case with Kevin Smith who has cast himself and BFF Jason Mewes as joined-at-the-hip duo Jay and Silent Bob in several of his View Askewniverse movies.

Jay and Silent Bob have made a few appearances in non-View Askewniverse films too, most notably Wes Craven’s third Scream movie in which they appear taking a tour of the Hollywood studio where Scream 3’s film-within-a-film Stab 3 is being filmed and mistake Courtney Cox’s Gale Weathers for real-life news anchor Connie Chung.

This, alongside a nod to a fictional Scream 4 film in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, led some to speculate that the Scream films and the View Askewniverse take place on the same fictional plane of existence.

However, look back to the very first Scream film and you’ll find a VHS copy of Smith’s debut film Clerks lingering in the background of the scene where film geek Randy explains how to survive a horror movie which means the View Askewniverse is fictional within the Scream universe.

Basically, that means Jay and Silent Bob are cosmic fictional beings able to transcend unrelated movie universes … or something like that.