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There have been countless occasions where we’ve seen members of celebrity families sharing screens. Take the example of Clint and Scott Eastwood inFlags of Our Fathersor Brad Pitt and Shiloh Jolie-Pitt inThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button.The biggest advantage of having an actor as your offspring is probably being able to use them as your younger versions in movies. They have the perfect resemblance, the perfect voice, and the perfect style.
Here are 15 actors who played the younger versions of their superstar parents in movies:
1James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini is reprising his father’s role as Tony Soprano in the prequel ofThe Sopranos, titledThe Many Saints Of Newark.
2For showing how he looked like when he was young,Riverdalemakers cast Mark Consuelos’ son, Michael Consuelos, to play his teenage version.
3. Melissa Rivers played her mom Joan in the filmJoy, a biopic about the American inventor Joy Mangano
4. Mario Van Peebles directed, wrote, produced, and starred as his filmmaker dad Melvin in the biopicBaadasssss!
5. Former Phillies GM Rubén Amaro Jr. played his father Rubén Amaro Sr’s (former MLB player) role on two episodes ofThe Goldberg
6When the makers of30 Rockhad to show a childhood flashback of Tina Fey, they decided to cast her daughter Alice Richmond for the role.
7For voicing the younger version of Gloria, DreamWorks roped in Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith inMadagascar: Escape 2 Africa
8In his biopicNotorious,rapper The Notorious B.I.G. got his son C.J Wallace to play his younger version.
9Mila Jovovich’s daughter Ever Anderson played the younger version of her mom’s character Alicia Marcus ofResident Evil: The Final Chapter.
10Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson played the role of his young father on a 1999 episode ofThat ‘70s Show.
11In the movie,Evening, Mamie Gummer volunteered to play the role of her mother Meryl Streep’s 1950s version
12O’Shea Jackson Jr. played the role of his dad Ice Cube in his biopicStraight Outta Compton
13. Sophia Loren played the role of both, her mother Romilda Villani as well as herself in the filmSophia Loren: Her Own Story
14. On one of the episodes ofOrange Is the New Black, Dasany Kristal Gonzalez played 14-year-old Daya, who’s played by her mom Dascha Polanco as an adult, in a flashback
15. Zoe Perry plays the role of Mary Cooper, Sheldon’s mom, onYoung Sheldon.Her mother Laurie Metcalf played the original version of that character first onThe Big Bang Theory
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Muneer is an Indian writer at FandomWire who plans to visit all countries in this world to eat the food on their streets. Obsessed with joggers, he sings and plays the strings too.
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