Many Leonardo DiCaprio fans still swoon over images of the actor as a young chap in films like "Titanic" and "Romeo and Juliet." Luckily for fans in Sweden, there is a 21-year old model, musician, and bartender who looks just like him.
Konrad Annerud is Leonardo DiCaprio's identical doppelganger. He is often referred to as Leo while he bartends and admits it can be "a bit hard" being referred to as someone else.
"It can become a bit hard sometimes when people call me Leo instead of my name," admits Annerud to Sweden's Nyheter via TODAY. "But it's fun to be like him. He's handsome."
However, Annerud adds, like any celebrity, the attention is nice, but it can get overwhelming. "It was very chaotic. People were yelling 'Leo' and wanted to take photos with me all the time," Annerud said.
"It was one of the craziest things I've ever experienced," he recounts of a summer trip to Italy. As TODAY explains, the "overwhelming attention" was so bad he contemplated shaving off all his hair in order to look different.
With a whopping 183,000 Instagram followers strong, it is safe to say Annerud looks much like a younger version of the 40-year old A-lister.
Annerud is not the only doppelganger the internet is going berserk over. Just a few days ago two identical looking strangers were randomly seated next to one another on a Ryanair flight. 32-year old wedding photographer, Neil Douglas, and 35-year old civil servant, Robert Stirling, both laughed at the unlikely event and snapped a selfie together.
Guy on right is the husband of my friend @elrottencrotch. Guy on left is a STRANGER he met on a flight last night! pic.twitter.com/kwBFOOEoMc
— Lee Beattie (@leebeattie) October 30, 2015
The picture was posted to Twitter, receiving over 20,000 retweets and favorites. To make the occurrence even stranger, the identical strangers discovered they were both staying at the same hotel in Galway and hung out for drinks after.
"Later that night, I went to the pub and again, there was my twin,'' Douglas told London's Evening Standard. "Total weirdness. We had a laugh and a pint."
The doppelganger madness continues, as it was revealed about two weeks ago, two students studying in Germany discovered they looked pretty similar too.
As New York Daily News reports, both Ciara Murphy and Cordelia Roberts say they were often asked by strangers if they had a sister or twin also hanging out around town. The pair eventually bumped into one another, snapping a photo and sharing it to Facebook and Twin Strangers. The two are now inseparable friends.
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