Though given the actor's almost unrecognisable appearance this week when he made a rare public outing, perhaps the joke that he can't even land the role of himself might not seem so improbable.
For instance, they believe that dermal 6 filler injections would alter their appearance dramatically, or make them look "plastic" or unrecognisable.
Some industries, such as media and aviation, are unrecognisable from ten years ago.
The new town would have been unrecognisable to the original inhabitants.
So much so, that modern concierges are almost unrecognisable from their predecessors of, say, 20 years ago.
It is basically a spruced-up version of videoconferencing, but its creators insist that the technology is so improved as to be unrecognisable.
Taking so long to die when you are so old that you become confused, unmanageable and unrecognisable to friends, makes the way we are likely to die uncertain.