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Confusingly similar?
Zooey Deschanel and Katy Perry (archive)
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Today Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel are both famous - one as a singer, the other as an actress.
And they have something else in common - more or less -: their appearance.
At least in some pictures the women look very similar.
Now Perry has said that she has benefited from this similarity in the past.
The singer reported in an Instagram chat with Deschanel.
Perry said she was "quite a nobody" when she moved to Los Angeles about 18 years ago, while Deschanel was already famous then.
At that time it was very often celebrations, Perry said.
"I wanted to go to the club and I had no money, I had no influence, I had nothing, and sometimes I pretended to be you to get into the club."
Deschanel was not very impressed: "Well, I knew that," said the 40-year-old.
Again and again people came to her back then and said, "I saw you."
"Who is this Katy?"
Numerous people would also have told her about Perry: “'That girl Katy, she looks just like you,' and I thought: 'Who is this Katy?'” When she first met Perry, she was “like that Relieved ”that her doppelganger was“ so pretty, ”said Deschanel.
The occasion for the conversation was a new music video for Perry's song "Not the End of the World".
In the clip, Deschanel plays himself and is brought onto a spaceship.
The aliens then welcome her as Katy Perry.
Perry became known in 2008 with the hit "I Kissed a Girl".
Deschanel has been in front of the camera since the late 1990s.
From 2011 to 2018 she played the lead role in the sitcom "New Girl".
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