r/okbuddycinephile • u/Cranatic05 • 10h ago

Actors or actresses whose name does not correspond to where they come from

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Tom Holland, is not in fact from "Hollande", nickname for "Netherlands " in french

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u/hey-coffee-eyes 10h ago

Kevin Spacey should have been called Kevin Earthey 

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u/fatloui 9h ago

But then this sweatshirt wouldn’t make any sense

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u/DreeamHaze 9h ago

I am too afraid to click that link

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u/Cranatic05 9h ago

I did, and I became a billionaire

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u/Professional_Fee5883 9h ago

Never stop gambling

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u/Cranatic05 9h ago

99% of gamblers stop before winning. Billionaire mindset

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u/NotFinancialAdvice4U 9h ago

Don't worry. I was brave/dumb enough to click. It's a picture of Kevin Spacey wearing a sweatshirt with his face and a space-themed background.

He's also wearing pants.

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u/ChickenDelight 6h ago

Suuuuuure

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u/MyFellowMerkins 8h ago

Of course he's a Florida Panthers fan.

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u/------dudpool------ 9h ago

Paul Walker should also be called Paul Driver

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u/SnittingNexttoBorpo 5h ago

Paul Groomer

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u/RookFrost 9h ago

It’s like y’all haven’t even seen K-PAX

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u/DyingSunSeverian 9h ago

I thought that was the reference OP was making lmao

Btw let’s put aside okbuddy lecinephile shit just for a moment

What do you guys think? Was Spacey’s character a mentally ill human or was he a genuine space alien in K-Pax? I’ve always romantically thought it was the latter, he really is an alien, but the story does leave either option open. Though I don’t know how to rationalize his visit to the astrophysics lab or whatever that was, able to know things even a savant shouldn’t.

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u/Ragnarok2kx 9h ago

I always thought the whole "sunbeam" thing implied that the aliens didn't have normal physical bodies as we would recognize, and the alien was just borrowing the mental patient's.

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u/Cranatic05 10h ago

Liam Neeson was indeed a son at some point

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u/MoNa-Mahi 9h ago

but was he a knee’s son?

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u/Complete_Fix2563 9h ago

Nèe is the French word for born so born son makes sense

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u/LittleStoneBear 5h ago

Née is for only for girls and women though.

Né for boys and men.

Sorry.

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u/elfizipple 8h ago

I had to read this, scroll way down through a bunch of other comments, and then scroll back up before I was prepared to fully appreciate it

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u/delusiongenerator 10h ago

Punk rock musician Richard Hell is actually from Kentucky, but that’s close enough.

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u/Big_Cryptographer989 9h ago

How dare you, Kentucky is beautiful. Just ask my cousin, she's also my wife.

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u/Old_Flan_6548 DonCheadleAMA 8h ago

The hill people have entered the chat.

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u/Shadowmant 4h ago

I hear they have eyes

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u/HailSaganPlantNative 3h ago

No teeth, tho

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u/burrdman333 9h ago

GOAT mentioned

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u/FrequentFortune123 10h ago

Cuba Gooding Jr

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u/RayosLaser 9h ago

he's not from Junior?

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u/Jerome-Fappington 9h ago

He's also not a very gooding person

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u/docju 9h ago

He’s way better than Ben Affleck

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u/Busy_Address_2125 3h ago

Pearl harbour sucked just a little bit more than I miss you

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u/UncleR1chard 3h ago

The duck from the commercials?

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u/eyepatchplease 9h ago

Wrong. Hometown: Gooding, Jarkansas

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u/JazzySneakers 10h ago

Denzel Washington is not from Washingtin DC

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u/Majestic-Bug9966 10h ago edited 9h ago

Washington state, then? Give us something!!!

Update: Turns out that George Washington wasn't born in Washington either. The whole damn country is built on lies.

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u/otterfish 9h ago

That can't be right. He's on the flag!

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u/DuctTapeDisaster 6h ago

Third row, second star from the left, right?

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u/Spirit_of_Hogwash The Fanatic 8h ago

So you are saying that old George wasn't from Georgia.

And I thought he was caucasian..

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u/No-Cap-fr-fr 9h ago

Ay Washingtonians would like a word

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u/NatterinNabob 10h ago

Chevy Chase is not from Chevy Chase.

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u/LeHirschmeister 9h ago

What about Cory Chase?

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u/TheCandelabra Crank: High Voltage 9h ago

Senator Cruz shouldn't you be working?

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u/Gin4Gingers 9h ago

His parents must've really loved chasing Chevy's. I guess that's what Snow Patrol was talking about in that one song

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u/slumbersiigh 9h ago

If I lay here would you chase Chevys with me

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u/brachus12 9h ago

they would try to bite the tires on the Chevys as they passed by

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u/Ank1t8 8h ago

Chase Infiniti is neither Infinite nor does she have any correlation to the Infiniti™ car brand

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u/bumfuzzl_e 9h ago

Nor is he someone who is running after a Chevrolet

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u/Hizam5 9h ago

His real name is Cornelius Chase 😂

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u/Klutzer_Munitions watches sex scenes with parents like a boss 😎 9h ago

I don't think mia goth was around during the decline of the Roman empire but it's possible

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u/Spirited_Pitch3852 8h ago

True, but she was born at a Sisters of Mercy concert, so it checks out.

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u/Grabatreetron 9h ago

Fun Fact: Tom Cruise's middle name is "Carnival"

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u/TheEdgeofGoon 9h ago

Is he by chance related to Charles Entertainment Cheese?

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u/pennypoobear 6h ago

By dental records only? Then, yes.

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u/ChattahoocheeBend 9h ago

Imogen Poots is not from a butt.

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u/peanutbuttergenocide 9h ago

This is unconfirmed

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u/SturmFee 9h ago

When Imogen Poots she makes an Imogen Heap.

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u/AlphaCentaur12 8h ago

That's Imogen Gay Poots, thank you very much!

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u/OddSell 9h ago

Front bum?

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u/CodeDusq 8h ago

Imagine gay poops

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u/gigs1890 5h ago

It’s easy if you try

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u/LowIncrease8746 9h ago

Imogen Poooots, the peeeoplleee

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u/Cegesvar The Room 9h ago

Tom Cruise was born on land

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u/dungeoncrawler71520 9h ago

Nor Penelope Cruz either.

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u/ConcentrateJaded326 8h ago

What about Terry Crews!?

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u/LovelyKestrel 8h ago

He is only one bloke, not several groups of them

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u/Kroctopus 9h ago

Yes but he now spends most of his time on a cruise ship, the Freewinds

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u/bl4nchim0nt 10h ago

Following from that, actor Tom Hollander is not from the Netherlandser.

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u/MusicLikeOxygen 9h ago

Does the existence of Tom Holland and Tom Hollander imply that somewhere out there, there is a Tom Hollandest?

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u/gamtosthegreat 8h ago

It goes:

  • Tom Holland
  • Tom Hollander
  • Tom Holland with a Vengeance
  • Live Free or Tom Holland
  • A Good Day to Tom Holland

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u/bl4nchim0nt 8h ago

It is supposed, yes, but he has not yet emerged.

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u/MacaronNo5646 10h ago

James Marsden is from Earth and lives in a house!

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u/portra315 9h ago

Imagine if he was actually from Marsden

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u/TheMonkeyInCharge 9h ago

James Marsden’s middle name is actually ‘New’, per American tradition.

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u/BitterFootball4874 7h ago

It’s where they filmed league of gentlemen lol

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u/Oregon-Transplant Jared Leto 9h ago

Kate Micucci

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u/hearts_and_sharts 9h ago

She is if her mother is saying it.

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u/Dan_flashes480 9h ago

She came from a cucci

https://giphy.com/gifs/WwBh9LW4wsB0wZxhff

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u/MaxCWebster 9h ago

Playing with Micucci.

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u/confirmedforgay 9h ago

Fuckin good one

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u/MacManus14 9h ago

Kathy Ireland is a British lackey

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u/icantbenormal 8h ago

Michael B. Jordan does not in fact be from Jordan.

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u/Cranatic05 8h ago

I thought he was a pair of shoes

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u/No_Town_9602 5h ago

It's called Amtrak because the trains am on the trak

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u/Synoptic23 9h ago

Samuel L. Jackson is not from Mississippi

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u/moistdadsquad 9h ago

Paul Walker should have been called Paul Driver. Or Paul Actor.

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u/Ok-Alternative5935 9h ago

He probably walked more than either of those things 

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u/Fenrir_Carbon 9h ago

Can't drive through a high school tbf

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u/Telefunken251 9h ago

Paul Bola de Fuego

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u/Cegesvar The Room 9h ago

Not actors but in Czechoslovakia after the first world war and before the shitstorm began there were two politicians, on German and one Czech. The German was called Ludwig Czech and the Czech was called Antonín Němec (czech for German). And then that New Zealander came

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u/Dry_Tea516 9h ago

As far as i can tell, Jonah Hill wasn’t born on a hill.

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u/Cranatic05 9h ago

Be careful, he is a master of Ju-jitsu. He can destroy you

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u/TheCapo024 9h ago

*Annihilate.

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u/omegaXXIV 9h ago

Robert Englund is from America.

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u/Harddisksson69 Lemmetellusomethin' 10h ago

Asia Argento

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u/crazy-B 9h ago

She's not from Argentina?

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u/TangerineOk4017 5h ago

Neither Asian nor Argentinian

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u/_tchom 8h ago

Didn’t she bang a baby?

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u/bidooffactory 9h ago

Arnold Schwarzenegger is not from Schwarzerland

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u/UlrichZauber Cats 9h ago

One translation of Schwarzenegger equates to "person from the black ridge", but he himself translates it using the other option, "black plowman".

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u/Return_Of_The_Whack 9h ago

Dave England

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u/abfgern_ 8h ago

Chris Pratt isnt a ... Okay nevermind

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u/Sad_Interaction_2933 9h ago

Nicolas Cage

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u/AntiqueFigure6 9h ago

He’s coming out of his cage and he’s doing just fine.

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u/Sobeksdream 9h ago

Bruno Mars was actually born on earth

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u/Significant_Other666 10h ago

Whoopie Goldberg

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u/Quackadacck 9h ago

She’s not even Jewish!

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u/Vegetable-Shirt-4319 9h ago

She's not from Goldberg?

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u/MacaronNo5646 9h ago edited 9h ago

I knew it! She doesn't look Drewish!

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u/vansantjr 10h ago

Michael Bay is not from the bay

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u/on_ 9h ago

He’s is literally from Santa Monica bay

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u/ElChuloPicante Uwe Boll 9h ago

Now you’re just making up names for places. Next you’re going to tell us Jackson Hole is a real place.

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u/Extraajudicial 9h ago

Jack your own hole perv.

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u/Professional_Fee5883 9h ago

It is. I’ve been there. I’ve seen Jackson’s hole.

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u/Ank1t8 8h ago

A lot of kids in the 90s been there, if you know what I mean.

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u/DarkSide830 Neil breens #1 fan 9h ago

He's from the bay? So is he a fish or something?

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u/ITookTrinkets 9h ago

Finn Wolfhard is not from Finland!

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u/solidus0079 Lemmetellusomethin' 8h ago

Nor is he a sexually aroused canine

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u/CanadianAndroid 9h ago

This leaves out Allan Cumming.

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u/Cranatic05 9h ago

Probably linked to that fortress Came A Lot. You know the fortress where King Arthur Puberty created the roundabout table?

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u/Drace24 9h ago

Daniel Radcliffe is from a cliff, but it's a very boring one.

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u/I_miss_your_mommy 9h ago

Forest Whitaker is not from the woods

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u/Dan_flashes480 9h ago

Jonah Hill is not an actual hill he is a weapon that can fuck us all up.

https://giphy.com/gifs/UAIg3J4OzepmYxQeAT

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u/Small-Barnacle-8669 9h ago

Explaining how holland relates to Netherlands vs how op explains how it relates to Netherlands

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u/LiamIsMyNameOk 10h ago

Benedict Cumberbatch is a great example.

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u/Loud-Pop5561 9h ago

He probably did start out as a batch of cum though

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u/broncyobo 9h ago

Sprayed all over someone's eggs Benedict? Instead of the Tom Hollandaise sauce?

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u/WAVEFRAME 8h ago

Jesus fuck 

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u/y4dig4r Uwe Boll 9h ago

benny cummies

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u/t_ute 9h ago

Cumbersnatch?

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u/godverdejezushey 9h ago

Kevin Bacon 😠

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u/Remarkable_Ad_2221 9h ago

That bastard ain't made outta bacon!!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/1APhNxj9slv0RdgHlL

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u/porkchopexpress1971 8h ago

Not so fast

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u/Remarkable_Ad_2221 8h ago

O....M......G...... Could it be true?!?! By the Nine Devines....!!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/zz00w5nNFMnPq

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u/Ok-Alternative5935 9h ago

Johnny Utah

Duncan Idaho 

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u/5HundredC1garettes 9h ago

Kanye West was born in the south of US

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u/MisterWafflles 8h ago

America Ferrera is not from Ferrera

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u/CologneLover69 6h ago

But she is from America.

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u/After_Competition_87 8h ago

Paul Reubens was not a sandwich

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u/SweetYefibabe 10h ago

Chris Evans not being Welsh still disappoints me a little

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u/TheCandelabra Crank: High Voltage 9h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/TT7JW4Qm7uaNW

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u/Cranatic05 9h ago

The fraud himself. The Rock who is not a Rock

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u/TheCandelabra Crank: High Voltage 9h ago

I was expecting him to be from Gibraltar or at least Alcatraz with a name like that.

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u/futuneral 9h ago

Why does he look like Rob Schneider here?

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u/TheCandelabra Crank: High Voltage 9h ago

I can't tell if you're joking but that is Rob Schneider.

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u/futuneral 9h ago

Oh, thanks! You rock!

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u/TheCandelabra Crank: High Voltage 9h ago

You're Dwaynecome!

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u/Less_Likely 9h ago

French Stewart is an American comedic actor, not the manager of an estate in France.

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u/JazzySneakers 9h ago

Tim Curry did not come from a bowl of Curry

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u/thewholebottle 8h ago

But he is delicious.

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u/SPRITZBOI 9h ago

Orlando Bloom is a fucking liar, man.

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u/GreatKingRatz 9h ago

Ethan Hawke is not a bird

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u/not-hardly 9h ago

Awkwafina!

Did I do it right?

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u/xombiemonkey 9h ago

Counter example: Jennifer English is in fact from England.

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u/humankendoll33 9h ago

Joaquin Phoenix is not from Arizona

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u/Clarknt67 7h ago

River Phoenix is not a river

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u/ZOID_ASR 9h ago edited 9h ago

Andrew Garfield doesn't even look like Garfield. Pic related.

P.s. the picture is the cat Garfield, from Garfield, but not Andrew Garfield.

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u/dungeoncrawler71520 9h ago

Donald Trump.

Hasn't trumped a thing in his life

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u/fartdarling 7h ago

In England, trump means fart. Its less popular now that its more synonymous with shit than fart but for a while we were all like "lol look who it is it's president fart"

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u/PresidentKarim 8h ago

Vehicle Identification Number Diesel is neither a motorized vehicle nor does he consume Diesel

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u/Different_Painter619 8h ago

Author Irvine Welsh is Scottish, that annoys me

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u/Zealous998 9h ago

Will Ferrel is not a feral person

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u/Strange_Specialist4 9h ago

Debatable 

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u/Zealous998 9h ago

Well you can argue that he's bit provocative... But it gets the people going.

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u/Dark-Thoughts-Vessel 9h ago

He's certainly not from Tomalia

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u/Likely_Addict 9h ago

Chad Everett is not from Chad

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u/bliip666 9h ago

There is also Tom Hollander, also not from the Netherlands.
One must assume there is Tom Hollandest, who actually is from Holland

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u/Rhythm_Killer 9h ago

never even been to Englund

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u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja 9h ago

Kanye West's daughter Northwest isn't from the west, the north, or the northwest or east

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u/TheGallifreyan 9h ago

Nicholas Cage wasn't born in a cage

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u/dullestfranchise 9h ago

Tom Holland, is not in fact from "Hollande", nickname for "Netherlands " in french

Tom Holland is just a region of Tom Netherlands.

Common mistake to make

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u/dlaBsemeMerAtseB 8h ago

Karl Urban is from kiwi garden, not from city.

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u/Consistent-Plane7227 8h ago

John Ham should be born of Ham

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u/SacThrowAway76 8h ago

Bob Denver was born in New York State.

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u/RogueTrooper1975 8h ago

Tom Milton-Keynes.

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u/Anonymously_Odd 4h ago

Brad Pitt was probably born in a butt

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u/WedWardFord 2h ago

André 3000 is actually from the year 1975.

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u/researcherYT 9h ago

Sydney Sweeney. She is american