Famous Father-Son Duo Showcase Their Striking Resemblance in Rare Red Carpet Appearance
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Erin CrabtreeDecember 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Bill Pullman and Lewis Pullman showed off their unmistakable physical similarities on the red carpet.
The Independence Day star, 71, and his actor son, 32, posed for photos together at the Los Angeles premiere of Lewis’ movie The Testament of Ann Lee on Sunday, December 14. Lewis flaunted his personal style in a gray houndstooth blazer, an off-white button-down shirt and black trousers, while Bill wore a black vest and slacks with a navy button-down shirt.
Though Bill and Lewis’ resemblance has always been noticeable, their similarities were more obvious than ever as they stood side by side on the red carpet.
Bill shares Lewis with his wife, Tamara Hurwitz, whom he married in January 1987. The couple are also parents of daughter Maesa, 37, and son Jack, 36.
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Bill is known for films such as 1987’s Spaceballs, 1995’s Casper, 1995’s While You Were Sleeping and 1996’s Independence Day and TV shows such as Torchwood and The Sinner. Lewis followed in his father’s acting footsteps, making his film debut opposite Bill in 2017’s The Ballad of Lefty Brown. Lewis later went on to land notable roles in Bad Times at the El Royale, Top Gun: Maverick, Thunderbolts*, Lessons in Chemistry and Catch-22.
In 2019, Bill commented on his resemblance to Lewis while discussing their film The Ballad of Lefty Brown.
“I’d look across the set and I see a pair of shoulders that I think, ‘Is that me? Is this weird science fiction, maybe?’” he recounted on Live With Kelly and Ryan at the time.
Earlier this year, Lewis opened up about his experience of breaking into the industry as the child of a famous actor, telling The Hollywood Reporter in May that his parentage taught him “lessons and tricks of the trade” that helped him along the way.
“I think that’s what is so undeniably fortunate about nepotism,” he explained. “What’s the hardest to get is the opportunity to get experience and to find your comfortability within a very bizarre circumstance.”
Lewis acknowledged that it took him “so long to get comfortable in front of a camera and to forget that it’s there,” noting, “I wouldn’t have gotten that if I didn’t get all these chances to do so.”
Despite learning from his father, Lewis isn’t striving to be exactly like him since Bill has a “hard reputation to follow.”
“I felt a lot of pressure to fill his shoes,” he said. “Once I realized that it was an impossible pair of shoes to fill, I kind of found a sense of relief in knowing that if there was any future for me in film that it would be by doing it my own way and trying to blaze my own trail.”
He added, “I was like, ‘OK, I can find my own voice and my own thing,’ and gave myself permission to do that.”
After co-starring in The Ballad of Lefty Brown and 2017’s Battle of the Sexes, Bill and Lewis will next share the screen in 2027’s Spaceballs 2.
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