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Lindsay Lohan does not have a twin, something she made clear with a quippy response to former Disney CEO Michael Eisner at the The Parent Trap premiere, telling the executive she should’ve gotten paid more for the role.

Speaking with Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live, Lohan recalled Eisner (perhaps jokingly) asking her where her twin was at the 1998 event when she was 12 years old. “I was so young I don’t even know how I thought to say this,” Lohan said. “I said, ‘Well you should’ve paid me double,...

Actors often play multiple roles in movies for a variety of reasons, whether they're playing twins, doppelgängers, or completely unrelated characters. The use of the same actor in multiple roles can add to the comedic effect or create a creepy atmosphere, depending on how it is used. From classic films like "Dr. Strangelove" to modern movies like "Us," actors have delivered great performances in dual roles, exploring themes of identity and obsession.

It's not all that uncommon for actors to play multiple roles in the same movie, but there are many different reasons they might do this. One of the most common reasons an actor will take on a dual role is because the characters need to have similar appearances, perhaps because they are identical twins or clones. Another common trope is the idea of someone coming into contact with their doppelgänger. This is often used in horror movies or...

Exclusive: U.S. distributor K Street Pictures has taken on world rights to feature drama Last Call (previously known as Dominion), starring Rhys Ifans and John Malkovich.

Rodrigo Santoro, Romola Garai, Tony Hale and Zosia Mamet also star in writer-director Steven Bernstein’s (Decoding Annie Parker) black-and-white pic about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

The film is a fictional portrait of Thomas’s last day at New York watering hole the White Horse Tavern, leading up to his untimely death at age 39. Ifans portrays the bohemian word master who had reached significant celebrity during the 1950s with such poems as Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Malkovich plays the poet’s confidant and enabler, Dr. Fenton.

The movie was first shown at the Rio film festival in 2016 and then again at the Tallinn film festival in 2017 but producers claim those were unfinished versions of the film and that additional...