From the poor man’s Tom Hardy to a ‘king-sized’ Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood can’t resist cloning its stars. It rarely ends well …
Logan Marshall-Green has always had a lot in common with Tom Hardy. The same nose, pillowy pout, penchant for hipster face thatch – but, alas, not the mad energy that has made Hardy cinema’s loose cannon du jour.
This summer, however, Marshall-Green hit the big screen in Upgrade, a springy sci-fi film in which his paralysed character’s body is taken over by a rogue AI that gives him superpowers. Neat career move, you might say, if Hardy himself were not now starring in Venom, as an investigative journalist whose body is taken over by a rogue symbiote that gives him superpowers. Coincidence? Maybe. But it feels as if Upgrade pushes Marshall-Green fully into the realm of being the poor man’s Tom Hardy. It’s the latest example of the movie doppelganger, a phenomenon the industry seems compelled to repeat.
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