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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

Spot the difference: are Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston too alike to make a bodyswap movie?

Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston
We’ve both been in Friends! … Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston. Composite: Alamy

The bodyswap genre has long existed on a simple premise: what if two people with entirely opposite worldviews got to experience life through each others’ eyes. Classics of the genre have involved Freaky Friday (a child switches bodies with an adult), 18 Again! (where a teenager switches bodies with an 81-year-old coma patient), Like Father Like Son (where a child switches bodies with a surgeon) and The Hot Chick (an attractive person switches bodies with Rob Schneider).

But you ain’t seen nothing yet, because Hollywood has now devised a bodyswap movie that makes all these films look like practice runs. It has used advanced scientific and mathematical formulas in order to locate the two actors currently working on planet Earth who are total opposites in every conceivable way, and built a film around their infinite and complex differences. That’s right, there will soon be a bodyswap movie starring Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston.

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