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9. The Impersonated Cop Was Achieved With Identical Twin Actors - Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day is such a triumph of visual effects - and a superbly aged one at that - that there's no real reason not to believe that the T-1000's (Robert Patrick) ability to mimic anyone it comes into contact with was achieved primarily through VFX wizardry.

And while you're probably aware that Sarah Connor's (Linda Hamilton) doubling late in the movie was pulled off by using Linda Hamilton's identical twin sister Leslie, that's not the only twin duo James Cameron took clever advantage of in the film.

Lewis, the guard working at Pescadero State Hospital - who famously gets impersonated by the T-1000 and stabbed through the eye by him - wasn't played by a single actor whose takes were then digitally stitched together, but indeed two identical twins, Don and Dan Stanton.

Yet you might've actually figured this out if you've seen Good Morning, Vietnam or Gremlins: The New Batch, given that the Stansons both have small-but-memorable roles in each of those films.

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