Separated at Birth?

Okay, you tell me: Are you 100% sure which is Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, and which is Cillian Murphy?
Those lips, those eyes

18 comments

  1. Roberta says:

    And both oddly reptilian — sort of Voldemort-like.

  2. TehipiteTom says:

    I used to have a real problem with Toby Maguire, Elijah Wood, and Lukas Haas. Those big eyes and all.

  3. Roberta says:

    Good call, Tom. I had a Jake Gyllenhaal and Toby Maguire. I eventually worked it out, with Jake being scruffier and gayer.
    But not much gayer.

  4. deblipp says:

    This came up yesterday, my friend just saw Breakfast at Pluto and loved it. Asked if I knew Cillian Murphy. I said yes, from Girl with a Pearl Earring and Bend it Like Beckham. She said no, Beckham was Rhys-Meyers. I said they’re the same guy she said no so I put the pic together to prove I was right.

    And I SO am.

  5. Roberta says:

    With all this talk about conventional beauty, I am struck, in an awful way, by the ice coldness of these two photos. While I recognize that the faces house attractive features, there is nothing in either of them that has me find them, either of them (or one and the same) attractive.

  6. deblipp says:

    Okay, so my friend still insists they don’t look alike. She is SO WRONG.

    Roberta, you’re right. To me they look like very pretty toddlers.

  7. Roberta says:

    Very pretty mean toddlers. who would bite your back and lie about it in court, because their family background is trailer trash and they wanted to rise above that.
    or something.

  8. TehipiteTom says:

    Very pretty mean toddlers. who would bite your back and lie about it in court, because their family background is trailer trash and they wanted to rise above that.

    That’s a pretty good description of Rhys-Meyer’s character in Gormenghast. Which, by the way, is worth watching (BBC production).

  9. Roberta says:

    I’ll put it on the list. Does Reese/Kirsten/Julia co-star?

  10. taijiya says:

    Eh? Isn’t that one on the left Tom Welling? Ah! These kids today, they all look alike! ::waves cane in the air::

  11. deblipp says:

    Tom Welling! AGH!

    But Murphy and Rhys-Meyers also have the same Irish accent.

  12. maurinsky says:

    I think I would call them creepy-pretty. The first film I saw Rhys-Meyers in was Titus, and he was very disturbing, until he got eaten, anyway. Cillian Murphy has incredible features. I think if either/both of them were smiling, they wouldn’t look so creepy.

  13. Gwen says:

    Meyers looks somewhat human, Murphy on the other hand, is definitely some sort of extra-terrestrial being…a very VERY attractive one though

  14. B.Ran says:

    How could you people possibly think that these two guys look alike. I have absolutely 2 problems with this

    1. How could Cillian Murphy not be attractive?

    2. Neither one of them look like toddlers!

    3. They really don’t look alike. Cillian is SO much hotter.

    Okay, that was three but shut your face because you people are so dead wrong.

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  16. Lillarosa says:

    Yes!! Cillian is the boy at the left!! it’s simply spectacoular boy!!

    Si!! Cillian รจ quello a sinistra! E’ un ragazzo semplicemente spettacolare!!

    kisses

  17. Karla says:

    They’re both handsome, but Jonathan Rhys Meyers is so gorgeous and more when he is smiling.

    Nice try, I wouldn’t think about this look alike.

  18. daniel says:

    What are you talking about!? They are nothing like!