Some time ago I noticed Katie Holmes on television, only to realize, to my surprise, that she actually wasn’t Katie Holmes, but Maggie Gyllenhaal. This realization brought a couple of musings to mind. For a bit of background information, I myself was one of the people dissatisfied with the casting of the Rachel Dawes character for The Dark Knight. Friends angered over comparisons between the “ugliness” of Maggie and “hotness” of Katie.
But let’s get back to the point. Did my mind get confused and make that observational, perceptive error because the two actresses (sorry, ‘female actors’) actually do bear a resemblance to each other? Or was my mistake influenced by the casting of Rachel Dawes in the two Nolan Batman reboot movies, Batman Begins and/versus The Dark Knight? Random, but still, it is a little something silly to think about. Either a) Katie Holmes and Maggie Gyllenhaal look alike after all, or b) The movies influenced my mistake, at least on some subconscious level, by having me mentally associate the two, or by some other means.
As an aside, my respect goes more to Maggie Gyllenhaal. I appreciate her eclectic taste in roles, and think her acting has some strength/merit. Haven’t seen much of Katie Holmes, so I’m not in any position to judge, anyhow.
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