“Then we did the hard sell to Amazon, and they said sure, okay, and then we went over to tell them, and they didn’t even seem excited,” chortles Quin, who also just issued an adventurous but pop-savvy new Tegan and Sara set, Crybaby, the duo’s tenth. Once the Cali kids were offered the parts from their Canadian benefactors, then came the tough part-actually convincing them to audition. Since such a wide international net had been cast for potential actors, the Quins had to slowly, carefully maneuver DuVall and company into the basically unknown Gillilands’ corner. “And one day Railey, who plays me on the show, her account came up, and I found her quite hilarious-she was always talking to the camera, giving tours of her car, and talking on her lunch break, like, ‘Let me show you my sushi rolls!’ And by this time, I’d explored her page, so I knew she was a twin, so I sent a bunch of her videos to Sara and asked her, ‘Isn’t this uncanny? It’s like me when I was 16!’ She was the same kind of goofy person, and there was just this dynamic between her and Seazynn that was very similar to Sara and mine-I was obsessed, instantly.” “Mid-pandemic, Sara convinced me to get on TikTok, along with 80 billion other people, and I think probably our phones are listening to us-it just started to deliver me a lot of twins online,” she says. None of them proved a perfect match for either her or sister Sara, sighs Quin, who stumbled upon the Fresno-based Gilliland twins, Railey and Seazynn, who had been quietly posting curious clips. When High School, the 2018 adolescent-years memoir authored by Tegan and Sara, was recently green-lit as a Clea DuVall-produced FreeVee streaming series through Amazon Studios, the role call went out via two different casting directors throughout showbiz, and musical siblings of every stripe eagerly formed a queue. The cornucopia of varied videos overflowing from the red-hot online posting service practically guarantee you’ll find a face similar to your own in no time flat. These days, there are far easier methods, swears Tegan Quin, of Tegan and Sara renown. In Mark Twain’s 1547-set fable The Prince and the Pauper, for instance, impoverished ragamuffin Tom Canty happens upon his uncanny lookalike Edward Tudor, the Prince of Wales, at the London palace gates, and is nearly beaten to death in the process before they decide to trade places. In classic literature, meeting one’s doppelganger is never easy.
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