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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 23 July 2019

Double take: Celebrities take mistaken identity in stride

Associated Press he said. There’s one actor
NEW YORK (AP) — “Hey, he’s consistently confused
aren’t you ...” Well, no. As with: Laurence Fishburne.
famous as they are, celeb- Gabrielle Union said she
rities sometimes get mis- gets mistaken for “every
identified as another A-list black person you’ve ever
face, but many told The met in life, famous or not.”
Associated Press that they Among her supposed loo-
take it in stride. kalikes are singers Brandy
“I get (mistaken for) every- and Ashanti and actress-
one, anyone who has red es Sanaa Lathan, Regina
hair,” laughed “Mad Men” Hall and Halle Berry. Union
star Christina Hendricks, blames the identity mix-ups
who has been confused on laziness.
with Oscar nominee Jes- “Last night I was walking
sica Chastain. The culprits out of a restaurant and the
include a department store paparazzi was, he might
worker who wrongly identi- have been the laziest pa-
fied her as the “Zero Dark parazzi I’ve ever encoun-
Thirty” actress. tered. He was like ‘Are you
“Chastain’s epic,” Hen- a singer?’ I was like, ‘Yes,
dricks said. I’m Ashanti.’”
For Chastain, the redhead Pakistani-American come-
double take usually in- dian Kumail Nanjiani cites
volves Bryce Dallas How- Kunal Nayyar, Aziz Ansari
ard: “I remember one time This combination photo shows actress Jessica Chastain at an exclusive fan event for “X-MEN: Dark and Hasan Minhaj as his
being on the subway and I Phoenix” in London on May 22, 2019, left, and actress Christina Hendricks at the Vanity Fair Oscar celebrity lookalikes, and it
was looking at a magazine Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Feb. 24, 2019. works both ways. “It hap-
and there was a picture of Associated Press pens to them with me,” he
her in it, like a small picture, When the 2011 film “The headshots to sign, which I’ll think that we’re special, but said. “And so, I feel at least
and I was like ‘What am I Help” came along and the take happily.” most of the time people re- we all have this weird thing
doing in this magazine?’ I two actresses got to work As for Watts, she gets mixed ally can’t differentiate any in common in that we get
actually had that thought,” together, they ran to a mir- up with friend and fellow of us. We’re all sort of the mistaken for each other,
Chastain recalled. ror. “We looked at each Australian Nicole Kidman, same, with no real special even though we don’t re-
Even Howard’s dad — di- other, at our faces, and we but she doesn’t really see skill besides the fact that ally look alike.”
rector Ron Howard — was were like ‘Yeah we look ex- it. “We sometimes look at you know our hair looks In a more unusual iden-
once fooled, Chastain actly alike,’” Chastain said. each other and go, ‘It’s not nice ‘cause somebody else tity goof, Mindy Kaling said
said. “I was walking by It’s not just about the red- the nose, is it the lips? No did it.” she’s been mistaken for
and I was like ‘Oh, that’s heads. it’s not that. Is it the eyes?’ I If you mistake Samuel L. Nobel Prize-winning activ-
Ron Howard.’ And then Sienna Miller is often mis- don’t know what it is.” Jackson for another actor, ist Malala Yousafzai: “I was
my friend who was with me taken for a certain fellow And it’s not just women. don’t expect him to cor- once mistaken at a New
said he turned to someone blonde: “Me and Naomi Jake Gyllenhaal, thinks it’s rect you. “I just sign what Yorker party for Malala.
and goes ‘I think I just saw Watts are friends, but we just good hair in general. they want me to sign for And I said, ‘I’ll take it. She’s
Bryce.’” often get sent each other’s “I think as actors we like to whoever they think I am,” 19. That’s fine.’”q

Laura Lippman’s new stand-alone novel is superb

By OLINE H. COGDILL Lippman has wisely chosen an affair with a black cop. in Maddie’s orbit — peo-
Associated Press an unconventional mystery But she hadn’t planned this ple she may never have
“Lady in the Lake” (William with “Lady in the Lake,” fo- move carefully. She left be- thought about while living
Morrow), by Laura Lippman cusing on the internal rage hind most of her valuable in that comfortable home.
Everyone wants to feel that that drives many of its char- possessions and relies on As part of her maturation,
he or she has an impact on acters.That internal rage Milton for money. Maddie finds a link to each
the world or to have just certainly propels Made- Eventually, she lands a low- person and a deeper con-
one other person believe line “Maddie” Schwartz, a level newspaper job but nection to Cleo. Maddie
— no, know — that what 37-year-old Jewish house- isn’t taken seriously, even isn’t always the most likable
he or she does is important, wife who leaves her well- when she tries to investi- of characters, but Lippman
which is featured heav- to-do husband, Milton, and gate the murder of Cleo makes readers care deeply
ily in Laura Lippman’s new the couple’s perfectly dec- Sherwood, a young black about her.
superb stand-alone novel, orated Baltimore home. woman whose body was The author shows each
“Lady in the Lake.” At one time, Maddie had found in the Druid Hill Park character in the context of
Elegantly written, the novel goals that reached beyond fountain. Her editors don’t the era’s culture that is on
moves with an eye to how This cover image released by marriage, mothering their see the importance of the the cusp of change. Gen-
people adapt to changes William Morrow shows “Lady in only child, Seth and keep- death of a black woman, der and racial roles are in
in culture, or maybe how the Lake,” by Laura Lippman. ing a kosher home. But this whom Maddie calls the flux, but the changes aren’t
an evolving culture causes Associated Press is Baltimore during the 1960s “lady in the lake.” Never- coming quickly enough.
shifts in people. “Lady in intersection of ennui and and Maddie is forced to theless, Maddie persists. Lippman again proves
the Lake” works well on ambition. It is also a pae- see how difficult the world While “Lady in the Lake” she’s a sharp observer of
several levels — as a look at an to newspapers and the can be. She moves into revolves around Maddie, people, with an affinity for
the mid-1960s and a view struggle of women report- an apartment in a sketchy Lippman also richly delves shaping complicated peo-
of racism, sexism and the ers during that time. neighborhood and begins into the personas of those ple in a refined plot.q