Photographs of Ashton Kutcher portraying a young Steve Jobs have been online for months, but now we have our first look at the 34-year-old actor as a seemingly middle-aged clone of the former Apple CEO. Kutcher shared the side-by-side comparison on Twitter.
Kutcher plays the late tech luminary in jOBS, an indie film that premiered and garnered mixed reviews last week at the Sundance Film Festival. The biopic opens in theaters April 19.
At the premiere, Kutcher revealed he imitated Jobs' "fruitarian diet" to prepare his body for the role and subsequently found himself in the hospital as a result.
"I was, like, doubled over in pain," he said onstage. "My pancreas levels were completely out of whack, which was really terrifying. . .considering everything."
Jobs died of pancreatic cancer in October 2011. Here's Kutcher as a younger Jobs:
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