Josh Peck sees no family resemblance between himself and his own Red dawn actor Chris Hemsworth.
On Thursday, Nov. 7, Peck shared a Thursday throwback photo on Instagram from the 2012 film, a remake of the 1984 cult classic, in which he played Matt Eckert, Hemsworth’s movie brother.
In the caption, Peck wrote: “#tbt to the moment a major studio believed @chrishemsworth and I could play brothers. Stay cool everyone.”
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Fans in the comments section played along with the joke, saying they could see a resemblance between the two stars, while others reminisced about the film.
“I was invested, I saw a vision 😂 such a great movie!!!!” one fan wrote. “If you squint hard enough, you can see what they saw 😍,” joked another.
The “major studio” Peck refers to in the post is MGM/UA Entertainment Company, which also released the original Red dawn. Due to MGM’s financial problems at the time, the film was sold to another distributor and finally released two years after it was made.
The remake of the action thriller will celebrate its 12th anniversary on November 21.
Josh Peck’s ‘Red Dawn’ throwback post on Thursday on Instagram.
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In the film, Peck and Hemsworth (41) played the characters played by Charlie Sheen and Patrick Swayze in the 1984 film.
Ago Red dawnPeck was best known for his role as Josh Nichols on the hit Nickelodeon TV show Drake and Josh from 2004-2007 Since 2012, Peck has starred in sitcoms such as How I met your mother and grandfather. Recently, the actor played the more serious role of Kenneth Bainbridge, a physicist tasked with pressing the button to detonate the first atomic bomb in history in 2023. Oppenheimer.
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Peck has a history of making fun of himself on social media. When Oppenheimer won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in March, Peck posted a video on TikTok with the caption, “When people ask if I thought I was going to be in Best Picture.”
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A popular background sound shows an interviewer asking, “What gave you confidence?” to which Peck lip-syncs the response, “Delusion.”
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