Anyway, when the pics started going viral, the first reaction people had was "BUGHEAD IS REAL!" But the second was, "Ummm, Lili looks so much like Brittany Murphy in these photos."
It was even the top comment on our Facebook post about them:
For reference, here's a photo of the late Brittany Murphy at a premiere in 2006:
And here's a side-by-side of Lili and Brittany:
Now, this isn't a *new* comparison. People have noticed that Lili bears a resemblance to Brittany for a long time now.
In fact, it happens so much, Lili even mentioned it when she came into the BuzzFeed office late last year and I asked her who her celeb doppelgänger was:
Everyone says Brittany Murphy — everyone. They think I’m her reincarnated. There are a lot of pictures of us side by side where we look crazy–alike. If you just google Lili Reinhart and Brittany Murphy, you’ll see it.
It checks out — this is what the Google search yields:
The point is, if you were staring at those pics last night and thinking about how much Lili looks like Brittany, you're not alone!