Redeem now - Celebrity look-alikes Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel participated in a livestream on Monday that coincided with the release of the singer's music video for "Not the End of the World," which Deschanel starred in.
- During their conversation, Perry revealed that when she first went to LA as a teenager to make it big, she pretended to be Deschanel to get into clubs.
- "I had no money, I had no clout, I had nothing, and sometimes I would pose as you to get into the club," Perry said.
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Early on in her career, Katy Perry realized she looked similar to actress Zooey Deschanel — and the singer used it to her advantage.
"It's like looking in a mirror," Perry said when Deschanel joined her for an Instagram livestream on Monday.
"For so long, we've had this funny friendship," the 36-year-old singer said. "Obviously, people think we look alike, right?"
In response, Deschanel (known for roles in "New Girl," "500 Days of Summer," and "Elf") told Perry: "I've had full conversations with people where they thought I was you."
Perry, who's now known as a chart-topping pop singer, admitted to the 40-year-old actress that she pretended to be her when she moved to California as a teenager.
"When I came to LA, I was pretty much a nobody, and you were just getting so huge at that time, it was like Zooey Deschanel ran the world," Perry recalled. "In that moment, I was so complimented to look like you."
Perry said that back then, before her 2008 single "I Kissed a Girl" catapulted her to fame, she used Deschanel's popularity to get into clubs.
"I went to the club a lot," the "Roar" singer said. "And I wanted to get into the club, but I had no money, I had no clout, I had nothing, and sometimes I would pose as you to get into the club."
This came as no surprise to Deschanel though, who said: "Well, I know this."
"People were like 'I saw you!' But I'm such a goody-two-shoes, and people kept going like, 'I saw you out, I made eye contact with you!'" Deschanel said.
She continued: "Then everybody kept telling me about you, 'This girl Katy, she looks just like you,' and I'm like, 'Who is this Katy?'"
Deschanel said that she was "so relieved" when she first met Perry in-person "because you're so pretty, and I was like, 'Oh, thank God. She's so pretty.'"
Perry added that people called her "Fooey," which was slang for "fake Zooey."
"I got pretty crunk in the club," the singer said of her early years in Hollywood. "I was a wild child. When I moved to LA when I was 17 years old, from 17 to about 23 when 'I Kissed a Girl' came out, I was turned up to 11 at the club."
Perry also apologized in case she "misrepresented" Deschanel.
Perry and Deschanel's livestream coincided with the release of the singer's music video for "Not the End of the World" on Monday.
Their resemblance played a key part in the video, as aliens mistook Deschanel for Perry and abducted her.
Perry said that the video was filmed a few months ago, after the birth of her and her fiancé Orlando Bloom's daughter, Daisy Dove Bloom.
The singer said that fans had been asking for that music video, but because she was on somewhat of a maternity leave, she reached out to Deschanel to star in the video while she made a small appearance near the end.
"It was actually fun that we could work together and make fun of it ourselves," Deschanel said.
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