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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 don’t see the family resemblance between him and his Red Dawn costar Chris Hemsworth.

On Thursday, November 7, Peck shared a throwback 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 back when a major studio believed @chrishemsworth and I could play brothers. Stay delusional, y’all.

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Fans in the comments section played along with the joke, saying they could see the two stars’ resemblance, while others remembered the movie.

“I was invested, I saw the vision such a good movie!!!!” wrote one fan. “If you squint hard enough you can see what they saw,” another joked.

The “major studio” Peck refers to in the post is MGM/UA Entertainment Company, which also released the original. Red dawn. Due to MGM’s financial difficulties at the time, the film was sold to another distributor and ultimately released two years after it was made.

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

“Red Dawn” by Josh Peck, Instagram post from Thursday.

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In the film, Peck and Hemsworth, 41, played the 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 series. Drake and Josh from 2004 to 2007. Since 2012, Peck has starred in sitcoms such as how I Met Your Mother And Acquired rights. More recently, the actor took on a more serious role as Kenneth Bainbridge, the physicist responsible for pushing the button that will detonate history’s first atomic bomb in 2023. Oppenheimer.

Peck has a habit of poking fun at himself on social media. When Oppenheimer won best photo at the Oscars in March, Peck posted on TikTok a video captioned: “When people ask me if I thought I’d be in the best movie.”

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