Andy Serkis says Michael Sheen's daughter mistook him for her father

• Andy Serkis was once mistaken for Michael Sheen by Sheen's own daughter.
• Speaking to The Guardian, Serkis said he would "love to do something with Michael."

Andy Serkis has revealed that he was once mistaken for Michael Sheen by Sheen's own daughter.

In a new interview with The Guardian, "The Batman" actor was asked by a reader if anyone had asked him for Sheen's autograph. "Ha! No. But a funny thing did once happen," he said.

"I got off a plane coming back from LA and the child of Kate Beckinsale [and Sheen] ran up to me, thinking I was her dad," he said. "I'd love to do something with Michael. There's a Man United manager too – Ole Gunnar Solskjær – who people have said I look like."

Beckinsale and Sheen were in a relationship between 1995 and 2003, and Beckinsale gave birth to their daughter, Lily, in 1999.

This isn't the first time the two actors have been mistaken for each other. In 2019, Sheen said in a video for Associated Press: "People have actually chased me down the street shouting, 'Gollum! Gollum!'"

Last year Sheen was asked who would play him in an adaptation of his life. "Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis would play it in rotation as I already spend a fair amount of time being asked if I'm one or other of them and this would nicely add to the confusion," he said.