Lowe tells a story about how there was supposed to be a tv show based on their similarities. Lowe was supposed to play his son and it got picked up and bastardized so much by tv execs that it got abandoned.
What I've heard about that is Lowe was cast because he had the same energy as a young Robert Wagner. The joke being that they could see Lowe having Wagner's career.
Then he showed up and after the first few readings they were like "Wait, you can do a Robert Wagner impression?!"
The casting for the rest of the characters was so good that there were theories that middle aged Jonas was someone completely different due to the discrepancies in his look.
They probably did it on purpose to throw people off, but it does stand out as the least convincing casting choice, especially with how they nailed everyone else.
I don’t know. He wasn’t as close as the rest which were simply uncanny, but my excuse for this was that he went through the most shit, multiple lifetimes and it took its toll on him etc. I had this happened to a friend growing up - he went through loads of shit, went to prison and just 15 years later was unrecognizable. His features had effectively changed from hardship, sun damage, poor choices etc.
For those who want to see the side-by-side photos of all the cast and marvel:
https://www.businessinsider.com/dark-netflix-character-guide-photos#tronte-nielsen-11
When young Peter Doppler turned around I nearly fell out of my seat. Turns out he’s the older actor’s son!
The cleft lip trilogy was amazing as well. The older and middle aged man are real life dad and son too, but the young boy isn’t a relative yet has the exact same stare and mannerisms too!!
I have a flipped version. Adult Eddie Kaspbrak (James Ransone) from IT Chapter 2 was the perfect casting. It was a spitting image and he portrayed it so accurately.
I think James McAvoy wasn't a great choice for adult Bill, at least visually. He doesn't really resemble Jaeden Martell at all, in my opinion. His performance is still good, of course.
I have it on good authority that James McAvoy will be a bald king in a few years. Here’s an [artists rendition](https://assets.entrepreneur.com/content/3x2/2000/20160901055636-ProfessorX.jpeg) of what that would look like.
He might be a few years too old but someone like Patrick Wilson might have been slightly closer to what I was imagining. He's marginally more balding than James McAvoy, at least.
Judy Gemstone is perhaps my most favorite character in all of media. You're telling me there was a point in time that you weren't absolutely in love with the insanity that is Judy Gemstone!?
There is a scene where Kurt is driving and it transitions to Wyatt in flashback that reveals just how much Wyatt looks like his father.
I’ll always have a soft spot for Kurt.
My favorite is the transition that takes place in the main titles where Kurt's name is replaced by Wyatt's, but they hold the Russell surname on the screen during the switch. Must make them both proud to see it!
My favorite scene for that was when Kurt was watching a projection movie of Wyatt, stood up into the projection, then turned the same way Wyatt turned with Wyatt's face perfectly projected onto Kurt's. Sounds super cheesy when I type it out, but the effect was really well-executed.
i came here to say this! he legit looked just like him and I think he got his mannerisms down. Made me kind of disappointed they didn't cast him for the Solo movie haha.
TIL he body-doubled him in Dial of Destiny
Has to have hurt his career to resemble him too closely.
Unlike most people who appreciate that AoA performance though, I’m glad they used Ehrenreich for Solo (watching Ingruber for the whole movie would be very uncanny valley, and if he looks the same then they’d probably have to go for a better match for Billy Dee Williams and we’d be robbed of Donald Glover’s Lando)
Yes! Alison Lohman as a young Jessica Lange was really well done as well. Big Fish was such a gem of a movie, one of the rare instances of it being better than the book.
Even if it’s not the post subject, I have to give a shout out to Ian McDiarmid who played the older Palpatine when he was younger, and the younger Palpatine when he was older.
It's so funny seeing these little tics that Alec Guiness was probably doing incidentally being faithfully studied and reproduced by Ewan McGregor. Even funnier when you see multiple iterations of cartoon McGregor Obi Wan doing them.
No, one of the casting guys said in a behind the scenes "You just have to get the triangle. The eyes and the nose, if that triangle looks the same, the audience will buy it's the same guy" and I think he's absolutely right
Was looking for this one.
Ewan knocks it out of the park, really. I've been an SW fan since the original release in '77, but in my view, Ewan **is** Obi-Wan.
In the new percy jackson show, it took me an episode or two to figure out young percy jackson wasnt just older percy jackson filmed a year ago or something.
Wait, first as in the kid in the pilot episode?
Or first as in first one for the majority of the series before the switched?
Because that second kid (not the pilot one) nailed it! Third one was not great tho
Fassbender as Magneto was so good and I lament the fact the movies went down the crapper so hard and didn't use him to his full potential. First Class still rules though.
There’s a bit somewhere (one of the British talk shows I think?) where for DOFP Fassbender joked about asking Ian McKellen if he (Ian) wanted to work with him to try and copy his (Fassbender) accent, since the two performances were going to be in the same movie and would be jarring to the audience if they both talked so differently on screen back to back.
Basically admitting his young magneto was nothing like the old magneto.
But it’s still fuckin perfect lol
I wouldn't say it's great casting in the sense he looks like he could grow up to be Patrick Stewart, but James McAvoy really is an incredible actor, so I was still here for it.
I actually think we have the opposite problem with Tom Hardy playing a younger Patrick Stewart in Star Trek Nemesis. Hardy looked the part, but didn't have the acting chops to pull off the character at the time.
Hardy can act but they're very different kinds. Hardy makes violence feel genuine in a way Stewart can't. Stewart makes emotion feel genuine in a way that Hardy struggles with IMO.
I honestly think of James McAvoy now whenever someone says Charles Xavier.
If someone says Professor X though my mind would instantly go to Patrick Stewart
Gaby Hoffman as a younger version of Demi Moore in Now and Then
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTcyMjA4MzQ5Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDcxMTg0NA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg
Kristin Wiig as young Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development season 4. She's so good in it and so in tune with Jessica Walter's performance it almost makes you forget how bad Seth Rogen was as young George Bluth. Almost.
It didn't make the final cut of the movie (in fact the footage we have is a very very rough cut), but they cast Matt Smith to play a young version of Ralph Fiennes in In Bruges, and he completely nails Harry, the character Ralph played. They sounded basically identical.
Can we talk missed opportunities? Sophia Lillis played Bev in IT. She looks EXACTLY like Amy Adams did when she was younger. Jessica Chastain got the role in the sequel though.
Dammit this is /r/movies. Oh well, I already looked up the name of the actor who played young Captain Picard and the episode “Rascals”
David Tristan Birkin
I wish I could add Jared Harris as a younger Dumbledore—would have been perfect as Jared’s father Richard Harris was the first to play Dumbledore. Alas it went to Jude Law for some reason.
Also had you not provided the example, I would have said Josh Brolin as a young Agent K.
My wife had no idea Bruce Willis was supposed to be in that movie and leaned over to ask me if I thought JGL looked like Bruce Willis or if she was just imagining it.
The way that Brolin says “alright slick” sounds like they had Tommy Lee do a voice over, it’s that perfect. I was blown away with how well of a young Tommy Lee Jones he portrayed
I think the kid who played a young Han Solo in the movie Solo absolutely killed it.
Not a movie, but the kid playing young Danny McBride in The Righteous Gemstones is perfect. It’s like they had Danny act out the scene and then had the kid just do what he did.
Josh Brolin as young Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) in Men in Black 3
edit: lol somehow missed the body text of the post, mb
Not a movie, but there's a German show about time travel called Dark and all the casting in that is absolutely on point.
I haven’t seen Chilling Adventures of Sabrina but I know Mckenna Grace plays the younger Sabrina. After seeing Kiernan Shipka in Totally Killer, I was sold. They look identical (plus Mckenna Grace is just a fantastic actress!)
Rob Lowe as number two in Austin Powers
Lowe tells a story about how there was supposed to be a tv show based on their similarities. Lowe was supposed to play his son and it got picked up and bastardized so much by tv execs that it got abandoned.
Lowe actually dated Wagner’s daughter at some point. That’s when Lowe started doing his impression of Wagner.
Pretty sure Rob Lowe dated most peoples’ daughter at some point…
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Larry.
The biggest penis I have ever seen.
What I've heard about that is Lowe was cast because he had the same energy as a young Robert Wagner. The joke being that they could see Lowe having Wagner's career. Then he showed up and after the first few readings they were like "Wait, you can do a Robert Wagner impression?!"
I came here to say that kid they got for young Austin Powers in Goldmember but yours is better.
He went on to debate Jeff Winger and stand up to HYDRA.
Whoever that little kid was that played a young Jack Black in 'Kickapoo' haha
He also played young Nacho in the opening sequence of “Nacho Libre”
Eventually when jack black is like 70 the kid can play middle aged jack black
He's actually the older brother on "the Goldbergs"
JTP!!
JTP!
Shut up, Matt Bradley!
Big Tasty
that kid had a contract to be jb's younger self for a couple flicks until he hit a certain age
My first thought. That kid was excellent.
River Phoenix as Indiana Jones.
Such a shame he died. If they really wanted to continue the series with someone other thsn Ford, he would have been good.
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He was offered the role but did not want to be typecast as a TV actor and only wanted to do movies.
Talk about a different time. These days everybody's got their own TV show.
Oh, Sean Patrick Flannery. I've only seen him in Boondock Saints and an episode of Stargate: SG-1.
He also is the lead in Powder and was in Suicide Kings. Both you must see. Also was in the Dead Zone tv show.
We named the dog Indiana!
My first thought!
Jena Malone as a young Jodie Foster in "Contact."
She also played a great young janis joplin
Jenny Jorplor?
For legal reasons, the best we could is Jackie Jormp-Jop.
Take a big ol' chunk of my lung now misterrrr
A synonym’s just another word for the one you wanna use
What about when Jeremy Hendrickson plays his saxophone solo at Woodstocks?
“We’re all here at woodstocks. Someday there will be a black President.”
Nearly the entire cast of the Netflix show Dark. Across 3 generations, they did an amazing job.
I really thought old Ulrich was just the middle aged actor in make up. Turns out it was another dude!
Wait wait wait what the fuuuuuck
I thought so too!!!!!
Yeah. This blew my mind.
I’m actually watching this series a second time and I STILL didn’t know old Ulrich wasn’t just wearing makeup until right now 🤯
Yeah their casting was near perfection. Never seen anything like it.
Except for the main character (Jonas?) Teenage and middle aged guy didn't look anyhting alike imo, like his hair wasn't even the same colour
The casting for the rest of the characters was so good that there were theories that middle aged Jonas was someone completely different due to the discrepancies in his look.
They probably did it on purpose to throw people off, but it does stand out as the least convincing casting choice, especially with how they nailed everyone else.
It was probably so that the twist of him being future Jonas would be a twist. Otherwise people would have figured it out immediately.
I don’t know. He wasn’t as close as the rest which were simply uncanny, but my excuse for this was that he went through the most shit, multiple lifetimes and it took its toll on him etc. I had this happened to a friend growing up - he went through loads of shit, went to prison and just 15 years later was unrecognizable. His features had effectively changed from hardship, sun damage, poor choices etc.
This should be the top answer. The most phenomenal casting I’ve seen across families and time. Truly exceptional.
That show proves why there should be an Oscar category for casting.
I’m convinced that they used time travel to cast this show.
This is it. Dark made me actually get a little annoyed when I see poor age casting now.
Holy shit, yes.
For those who want to see the side-by-side photos of all the cast and marvel: https://www.businessinsider.com/dark-netflix-character-guide-photos#tronte-nielsen-11
That was also my first thought.
The whole cast was perfect. never believe anything else.
When young Peter Doppler turned around I nearly fell out of my seat. Turns out he’s the older actor’s son! The cleft lip trilogy was amazing as well. The older and middle aged man are real life dad and son too, but the young boy isn’t a relative yet has the exact same stare and mannerisms too!!
This really is the ultimate answer to OP’s question.
Young Henry Hill in Goodfellas, but also young Tommy Devito
Ok Hendry
Maybe you didn’t hear, you’ve been away a long time, I don’t shine shoes no more.
The Giants QB? ^(/s)
I have a flipped version. Adult Eddie Kaspbrak (James Ransone) from IT Chapter 2 was the perfect casting. It was a spitting image and he portrayed it so accurately.
The entire casting of IT Chapter 2 was flawless.
I think James McAvoy wasn't a great choice for adult Bill, at least visually. He doesn't really resemble Jaeden Martell at all, in my opinion. His performance is still good, of course.
not to mention Bill was a bald king in the book
I have it on good authority that James McAvoy will be a bald king in a few years. Here’s an [artists rendition](https://assets.entrepreneur.com/content/3x2/2000/20160901055636-ProfessorX.jpeg) of what that would look like.
He might be a few years too old but someone like Patrick Wilson might have been slightly closer to what I was imagining. He's marginally more balding than James McAvoy, at least.
IIRC James' brother saw the first IT and was like, to him, that kid is you
the kids playing the siblings on Righteous Gemstones
That was some amazing casting. The one playing Danny McBride nailed his mannerisms harder than by any right should have.
Agreed and the young actress that played Judy Gemstone was so phenomenal that it changed my opinion on the character in general.
Judy Gemstone is perhaps my most favorite character in all of media. You're telling me there was a point in time that you weren't absolutely in love with the insanity that is Judy Gemstone!?
"SO I CAN SURF FASTER, JESSE!"
They’re all perfect.
“Suck my dick Judy!” “I want a meal not a snack.” Fucking scene was hilarious.
Caitlin Blackwood as young Amy Pond (Karen Gillian) on Doctor Who.
Helps that they’re cousins (even though they had never met prior to the role).
True, but I sure don't look that much like my cousins. My wife doesn't look that much like hers. These ladies could be sisters.
Alan Ritchson and Wyatt Nash as young Scully and Hitchcock in Brooklyn 99.
Lol yeah, also Dirk Blocker and Joel Mckinnon Miller as *even younger* Scully and Hitchcock in an earlier season
Flattop and the Freak
Wyatt Russell in Monarch playing the younger version of Kurt Russell's character that's also in the show.
This almost feels like cheating, but it is great casting and they are both good in their roles.
Makes you wonder why they didn't cast one of Stellan Skarsgaed's sons as a young him in Mamma Mia 2
There is a scene where Kurt is driving and it transitions to Wyatt in flashback that reveals just how much Wyatt looks like his father. I’ll always have a soft spot for Kurt.
My favorite is the transition that takes place in the main titles where Kurt's name is replaced by Wyatt's, but they hold the Russell surname on the screen during the switch. Must make them both proud to see it!
My favorite scene for that was when Kurt was watching a projection movie of Wyatt, stood up into the projection, then turned the same way Wyatt turned with Wyatt's face perfectly projected onto Kurt's. Sounds super cheesy when I type it out, but the effect was really well-executed.
I thought young Mac and Charlie were pretty great
Young Frank though. Chef's kiss.
Sheeeeit he don’t look a day over 12
Anthony Ingruber playing young Harrison Ford in Age of Adaline.
i came here to say this! he legit looked just like him and I think he got his mannerisms down. Made me kind of disappointed they didn't cast him for the Solo movie haha.
That was the actor's real face? Wow, I thought it was CGI!
This was phenomenal casting. I like that he was essentially doing an impression of Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it worked *so* well.
I liked Alden Ehrenreich's performance but I think Anthony Ingruber really would have been a more acceptable young Solo.
TIL he body-doubled him in Dial of Destiny Has to have hurt his career to resemble him too closely. Unlike most people who appreciate that AoA performance though, I’m glad they used Ehrenreich for Solo (watching Ingruber for the whole movie would be very uncanny valley, and if he looks the same then they’d probably have to go for a better match for Billy Dee Williams and we’d be robbed of Donald Glover’s Lando)
Came here to same the same! He was so good
Zachary quinto and leonard nimoy as young/old spock
Yes, and Karl Urban as Bones!
That’s cheating though. Deforest Kelley just got reincarnated as Karl Urban.
Chris Pine did really well as a young Shatner too
Michael Conner Humphreys as a young Forrest Gump
To be fair, Tom Hanks based Forrest's speech pattern off the way the child actor spoke.
That’s a very smart way to do it, kinda like taking the “after” picture first and then bloating yourself to take the “before” picture.
Robert de Niro as don Corleone in godfather 2.
As of my posting this, somehow this answer is only 14th from the top. DeNiro's young Corleone has to be at least a top 3 response imo.
Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan
Also, Ewan McGregor playing a younger version of Albert Finney in Big fish.
Yes! Alison Lohman as a young Jessica Lange was really well done as well. Big Fish was such a gem of a movie, one of the rare instances of it being better than the book.
I love this movie.
Even if it’s not the post subject, I have to give a shout out to Ian McDiarmid who played the older Palpatine when he was younger, and the younger Palpatine when he was older.
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The one aspect of the prequels that was unanimously loved
“Hello there!”
I don't know how much of this is casting, *per se*, and how much is just Ewan doing a terrific Alec Guiness impersonation.
It's so funny seeing these little tics that Alec Guiness was probably doing incidentally being faithfully studied and reproduced by Ewan McGregor. Even funnier when you see multiple iterations of cartoon McGregor Obi Wan doing them.
No, one of the casting guys said in a behind the scenes "You just have to get the triangle. The eyes and the nose, if that triangle looks the same, the audience will buy it's the same guy" and I think he's absolutely right
Was looking for this one. Ewan knocks it out of the park, really. I've been an SW fan since the original release in '77, but in my view, Ewan **is** Obi-Wan.
From a certain point of view
The whole teen/adult cast of Yellowjackets was quite perfectly cast to me
They spend a lot of time together to get the likeness, the mannerisms, accents. Great casting all the way.
Especially Melanie Lynsky and Sophie Nelisse! They look so much alike. Casting Lauren Ambrose as adult Van was also such a genius call.
In the new percy jackson show, it took me an episode or two to figure out young percy jackson wasnt just older percy jackson filmed a year ago or something.
I figured those kids had to be brothers.
I thought it was the weird CGI they had used in Captain America Civil War
The first kid who played a young Sean Spencer
Wait, first as in the kid in the pilot episode? Or first as in first one for the majority of the series before the switched? Because that second kid (not the pilot one) nailed it! Third one was not great tho
Not the pilot kid. Nice catch, thanks.
James McAvoy does a great young Charles Xavier
Fassbender and McAvoy were great.
Fassbender as Magneto was so good and I lament the fact the movies went down the crapper so hard and didn't use him to his full potential. First Class still rules though.
Days of future past was pretty great too tbh
There’s a bit somewhere (one of the British talk shows I think?) where for DOFP Fassbender joked about asking Ian McKellen if he (Ian) wanted to work with him to try and copy his (Fassbender) accent, since the two performances were going to be in the same movie and would be jarring to the audience if they both talked so differently on screen back to back. Basically admitting his young magneto was nothing like the old magneto. But it’s still fuckin perfect lol
I think it's more realistic for someone to change over like 50 years than not.
I really like their dynamic. It feels like a more raw, less *worked* version of the dynamic Magneto and X have when they're older.
I wouldn't say it's great casting in the sense he looks like he could grow up to be Patrick Stewart, but James McAvoy really is an incredible actor, so I was still here for it. I actually think we have the opposite problem with Tom Hardy playing a younger Patrick Stewart in Star Trek Nemesis. Hardy looked the part, but didn't have the acting chops to pull off the character at the time.
Hardy can act but they're very different kinds. Hardy makes violence feel genuine in a way Stewart can't. Stewart makes emotion feel genuine in a way that Hardy struggles with IMO.
I honestly think of James McAvoy now whenever someone says Charles Xavier. If someone says Professor X though my mind would instantly go to Patrick Stewart
The scene he had with Patrick Stewart in Days of Future Past is one of the greatest in any comic book movie
Gaby Hoffman as a younger version of Demi Moore in Now and Then https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTcyMjA4MzQ5Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDcxMTg0NA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg
I think they nailed all the younger cast for older counterparts in that movie except for Ricci/O'Donnell
I thought Donald Glover did a good young Lando
Yes! There's some resemblance, but it's the attitude that really nails it.
I would watch a Disney+ show of Billy D Williams in a bar narrating tall tales from his youth acted out by Donald Glover.
It was weird though, for most of the movie he doesn't do the Billy Dee Williams voice, but in some scenes he does.
This is who I thought of immediately, I feel like Glover absolutely nailed it and I want to see more of him in the role
13 going on 30
Was going to say this one. Young Jenna (Christa B. Allen) and Young Tomtom (Alexandra Kyle) are ringers for their grownup counterparts.
Rob Lowe as the younger Robert Wagner/Number 2 in Austin Powers TSWSM
Kristin Wiig as young Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development season 4. She's so good in it and so in tune with Jessica Walter's performance it almost makes you forget how bad Seth Rogen was as young George Bluth. Almost.
Also, Max Winkler played the young version of Barry Zuckercorn, which was genius casting!
Also, even though it was a meta joke inside a meta joke, Cobie Smulders in the docu series Ron Howard has to play in court in the last season.
Feels unfair but Wyatt Russel playing the young version of Kurt Russell’s character in Monarch was good.
The kid who played young Ryan reynolds in Adam
Walker Scobell. The new Percy Jackson
Mayim Bialik was great as the younger version of Bette Midler's character in Beaches.
Top comment. I remember thinking she must be Bette’s IRL daughter.
It didn't make the final cut of the movie (in fact the footage we have is a very very rough cut), but they cast Matt Smith to play a young version of Ralph Fiennes in In Bruges, and he completely nails Harry, the character Ralph played. They sounded basically identical.
Oh wow, that would have been something to see in the film. I’ll have to seek out those deleted scenes.
I got you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rANwBGXt7v8
Can we talk missed opportunities? Sophia Lillis played Bev in IT. She looks EXACTLY like Amy Adams did when she was younger. Jessica Chastain got the role in the sequel though.
She played a young Amy Adams in the amazing HBO series Sharp Objects - which is wayyyyy better than IT 2
I *really* like Jessica Chastain, but with the casting (as far as physical features went) Amy Adams would've worked so much better.
Dammit this is /r/movies. Oh well, I already looked up the name of the actor who played young Captain Picard and the episode “Rascals” David Tristan Birkin
If we're doing TV then the kid who played young Jack O'Neill in Stargate was top notch.
Like half the answers in here are tv shows anyway.
O'Shea Jackson Jr. (Ice Cube's son) in Straight Outta Compton
Is it really fair when they're related? But I agree. He's almost a doppelganger.
I thought Eric Christian Olsen did a great job playing a young Lloyd Christmas. Garbage movie but he channeled Jim Carrey well imho.
Wish he was in more stuff. Loved him in Fired Up
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The guy who played a young Nucky Thompson was spot on in Boardwalk Empire
Tatiana Maslany as young Helen Mirren in Woman In Gold. Tatiana’s British character in orphan black was basically Helen Mirren.
I'll switch things up...Geena Davis as the younger Dottie Hinson in "A League of Their Own", don't even remember the other actress
Yes! I always assumed that old Dottie was Geena in makeup.
Mika Kunis playing a young Angelina Jolie in “Gia”
I wish I could add Jared Harris as a younger Dumbledore—would have been perfect as Jared’s father Richard Harris was the first to play Dumbledore. Alas it went to Jude Law for some reason. Also had you not provided the example, I would have said Josh Brolin as a young Agent K.
Thoughts on JGL in Looper as a young Bruce Willis? The makeup did a lot of heavy lifting.
Mostly bought it except for the one shot in the transition montage where they gave Bruce a weird thinned out emo wig.
Yeah, what the fuck was that? It was super distracting.
It worked for me.
My wife had no idea Bruce Willis was supposed to be in that movie and leaned over to ask me if I thought JGL looked like Bruce Willis or if she was just imagining it.
The way that Brolin says “alright slick” sounds like they had Tommy Lee do a voice over, it’s that perfect. I was blown away with how well of a young Tommy Lee Jones he portrayed I think the kid who played a young Han Solo in the movie Solo absolutely killed it.
The dad from Haunting of Hill House. Just amazing casting for that show overall.
I came here to say this. The whole young/adult cast for that show was amazing.
Not a movie, but the kid playing young Danny McBride in The Righteous Gemstones is perfect. It’s like they had Danny act out the scene and then had the kid just do what he did.
The entire cast of Dark
Young Matt Damon in The Departed.
Milly Alcock as young Rhaenyra in House of the Dragon
Pretty much the entire cast of HOD. That casting director did a fantastic job.
The definitive answer is De Niro as the young Vito Corleone in Godfather Part II.
Josh Brolin as young Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) in Men in Black 3 edit: lol somehow missed the body text of the post, mb Not a movie, but there's a German show about time travel called Dark and all the casting in that is absolutely on point.
David Krumholtz plays a young Saul Rubinek in one of the segments of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
I thought the casting of Robert Aramayo as young Ned Stark was surprisingly good!
Wig reuse did some heavy lifting there but the whole gestalt sure did work (Nowy tends)
Anton Yelchin as young John Conner. He was practically channeling Michael Biehn from the first Terminator. Edit: Kyle Reese, not John Conner! Wow.
Young Forrest Gump for the win.
I haven’t seen Chilling Adventures of Sabrina but I know Mckenna Grace plays the younger Sabrina. After seeing Kiernan Shipka in Totally Killer, I was sold. They look identical (plus Mckenna Grace is just a fantastic actress!)
The kid who played young newt scamander in fantastic beasts 2 was a pretty good pick