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Killing an Oscar Nominee
How do you know if the life you are chasing is the one you want?
Every once in a while someone will ask why I often include my middle name online. I didn’t used to; back in my day when we climbed uphill both ways through the snow to post online, it wasn’t a habit when making a new account. But as social media flourished, so did the number of fans who liked this guy.
That’s when the confusion started.
As you can see, we are basically the same person. At least, we were to some of his fans online. See if you do a search for “David Hewlett” online, you end up with this guy’s eerily smug face. But every once in a while if you click the wrong thing on the internet while trying to find a ComicCon quote, or enjoy a chuckle of him playing a nerdy role in a sci-fi drama, you’ll end up finding me instead. And he’s essentially my doppelganger in every way, so it’s easy to see fans confusing the two of us. Right?
Right. I guess.
So for a while people would send me messages or want to be friends, thinking I was a minor C-list celebrity because they didn’t know how to look at photos and distinguish between two tall white guys. At first, it was a little funny — I got a good chuckle and a bar story out of it. But then for a while, I was getting a couple of messages a day…
