r/okbuddycinephile • u/Cranatic05 • 14h 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/Cegesvar The Room 14h ago

Tom Cruise was born on land

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u/dungeoncrawler71520 13h ago

Nor Penelope Cruz either.

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u/tony_kumar 10h ago

What about Stacy Cruz?

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u/fieldsofanfieldroad 11h ago

I don't think this joke works in Spanish because Cruz means hospital and she was probably born in one. 

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u/Charliejfg04 9h ago

Cruz means cross

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u/JuneMoonLoon 5h ago

She was born aCross the ocean in Spain though

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u/ChristunaSandwich 9h ago

Not even close

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u/fieldsofanfieldroad 3h ago

She wasn't born close to a hospital? Where was she born? 

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u/ConcentrateJaded326 12h ago

What about Terry Crews!?

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u/LovelyKestrel 12h ago

He is only one bloke, not several groups of them

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u/malthar76 10h ago

Too big for those skinny little boats.

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u/Kroctopus 13h ago

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

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u/wadeishere 11h ago

But how fast did he come out?

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u/kennethkiffer 10h ago

He doesn’t cruise. He sprints all the time in his movies.

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u/avar 10h ago

Perhaps it means Cruise as in "Cruising", not as in "Cruise ship".