Sam Jackson Is Right, “We Don’t All Look Alike”: Black Celebrities Mistaken For Each Other
Yvette Nicole Brown and Octavia Spencer
I’m still not 100 percent sure what would make someone confuse Yvette Nicole Brown’s face with Octavia Spencer’s, but on Watch What Happens Live in 2012, a person calling in to ask questions tried it. She asked Brown what it was like working on The Help, and Brown politely told her that she had the wrong black actress: “I will tell Octavia that you loved her in The Help.” Once homegirl confused Brown for the wrong person, Andy Cohen and co. hung up the phone with the quickness!