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Ryan Reynolds is often confused with Hollywood’s other famous Ryan ― Ryan Gosling. But Ben Affleck? That’s certainly a new one.

The “Red Notice” star revealed the place where he always gets mistaken for Affleck during an appearance on the “Dear Hank & John” podcast, which aired on Monday.

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“There’s a pizza place in the East Village in New York that I’ve been going to for years,” Reynolds said. “They believe I’m Ben Affleck and I’ve never corrected them.”

When one of the hosts spoke of the importance of correcting mistakes quickly, Reynolds quipped: “It would not go over well” if he straightened out his identity now.

“I don’t accept anything ― like they’re not giving me free pizza based on this factor,” he said. “I do everything normal, just like everyone else. They just think I’m Ben Affleck.”

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Reynolds said he plays along with the mistake ― as Affleck.

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“You know, they’ll ask how J.Lo is [and I’ll say] ‘Great, good,’ get my pizza and off I’ll go,” he said. “What I think makes it believable is I look mildly put out that they’re asking me this again about my life and the movies. When I leave, I think they’re like ‘I don’t think Ben Affleck is amused by us and our questions.’”

“Now you’re ruining Ben Affleck’s reputation,” one of the hosts said to laughter.

“I gotta be more chipper. Noted,” Reynolds said. “Gotta take care of Ben.”

Reynolds has another unlikely doppelganger in Hollywood. And she ― yes, she ― really thinks the two look alike.

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Fellow actor Kate Beckinsale told Jimmy Fallon back in 2019 that she’s convinced she’s a dead ringer for the “Deadpool” star.

“I look exactly like Ryan Reynolds. Like, in a shocking way,” Beckinsale said on “The Tonight Show” at the time. “Like when sometimes I see a bus going by with a poster and think, ‘Damn, I look hot. Oh wait ― it’s not me. Also, I never did that movie. I’ve been at home.’”

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“I’ve wrestled with how, obviously, he’s not even like a sort of slightly girly boy-bander type. He’s like a big Canadian man. And I really see myself in him,” Beckinsale joked. She added that she could never work with Reynolds or be in the same room as him. “One of us would, I think, explode,” she said. “Something would happen.”

Reynolds responded to Beckinsale’s proclamation at the time in a very Reynolds way.

“It is like looking in a mirror,” the “Detective Pikachu” actor said on the “Today” show.

“This has been something I’ve heard for a long time,” he added. “Other people have said it to me, as well. We met one time, but yeah.”

“It is like looking in a mirror,” @VancityReynolds responds to @KateBeckinsale’s hilarious comments about the two of them looking alike pic.twitter.com/2opzFrmJ1f

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) December 12, 2019

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