Kevin Bacon playfully targeted his former co-star Ethan Hawke on social media, jokingly giving him a strict “24 hours to respond” to a video teasing their lookalike appearance.
The 68 year old man Free from all ties The star shared a hilarious documentary-style clip on Instagram in which he impersonated Hawke, directly poking fun at the uncanny resemblance the two actors share.
In the video, Bacon can be seen making himself comfortable in a single chair placed in front of a window.
He jokingly asks the camera crew if he needs a microphone and asks where they want to start, before introducing himself as Ethan Hawke.
In his caption, Bacon joked that he was just preparing for the day when Netflix decided to make a documentary about his “real identity.”
The two stars, who recently shared the screen in the 2023 psychological thriller Leave the world behindhave long been well aware of their famous internet likeness.
While promoting the film, Bacon, 68, and Hawke, 55, even sat down for a “Zoom challenge” hosted by Netflix, where they were tasked with trying to make out their own faces in extremely close-up photos.
During the promotional game, both actors admitted that they get confused in public all the time.
Bacon joked that whenever he is confused for the Before sunrise actor, he tells people that he “got Ethan Hawke today.”
Hawke then admitted that he actually signed Bacon’s name for fans who were congratulating him on his iconic role in Free from all tiessimply responding, “Yeah, I was.”
The challenge proved trickier than expected, as they struggled to differentiate between their own features, including their hairline, teeth and wrinkles.
After failing to correctly identify several of the cropped images, Hawke laughed off the confusion, admitting that it’s a bit embarrassing when the two people in question can’t even tell each other apart.
