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Josh Peck Jokes About Playing Chris Hemsworth’s Brother in ‘Red Dawn’
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Josh Peck Jokes About Playing Chris Hemsworth’s Brother in ‘Red Dawn’

josh peck I can’t see the family resemblance between him and his red dawn co-star Chris Hemsworth.

On Thursday, November 7, Peck shared a memory from Thursday. instagram photo from the 2012 film, a remake of the 1984 cult classic, in which he played Matt Eckert, Hemsworth’s on-screen brother.

In the caption, Peck wrote: “#tbt until when a large study believed @crishemsworth and I could play at being brothers. Stay delulu all of you.”

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Fans in the comments section followed up on the joke, saying they could see the resemblance of the two stars, while others reminisced about the movie.

“I got involved, I saw the vision What a great movie!!!!” wrote one fan. “If you squint hard enough you can see what they saw ,” another joked.

The “main 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 was finally released two years after it was made.

The new version of the action thriller will celebrate the 12th anniversary of its release on November 21.

Josh Peck’s ‘Red Dawn’ Thursday Instagram post.

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In the film, Peck and Hemsworth, 41, played characters played by charlie sheen and Patrick Swayze in the 1984 film.

Before red dawnPeck was best known for playing Josh Nichols on the hit Nickelodeon television show. drake and josh from 2004 to 2007. Since 2012, Peck has acted in comedies such as how I Met Your Mother and protected. More recently, the actor played a more serious role as Kenneth Bainbridge, the physicist in charge of pressing the button that will detonate the first atomic bomb in history in 2023. oppenheimer.

Peck has a history of poking fun at himself on social media. When oppenheimer cattle best photo At the Oscars in March, Peck posted in tiktok a video with the caption: “When people ask me if I thought it would be in Best Picture.”

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The popular background audio shows an interviewer asking, “What gave you confidence?” to which Peck lip-syncs the response: “Delusion.”