Katy Perry pretended to be Zooey Deschanel when she moved to Los Angeles

• Celebrities Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel participated in a live broadcast on Monday that coincided with the release of the singer’s music video for “Not the End of the World,” which starred Deschanel.
• During their conversation, Perry revealed that when he first went to Los Angeles as a teenager to succeed, he pretended to be Deschanel to get into clubs.
• “I had no money, I had no influence, I had nothing, and sometimes I would pretend to be you to get into the club,” Perry said.
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Early in her career, Katy Perry realized that she looked like actress Zooey Deschanel, and the singer took advantage of it.

“It’s like looking in a mirror,” Perry said when Deschanel joined her for an Instagram live broadcast on Monday.

“For a long time, we have had this fun friendship,” said the 36-year-old singer. “Obviously, people think we look alike, right?”

In response, Deschanel (known for his roles in “New Girl,” “500 Days of Summer” and “Elf”) told Perry, “I’ve had full conversations with people who thought I was you.”

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Perry, who is now known as a chart-topping pop singer, admitted to the 40-year-old actress that she pretended to be her when she moved to California as a teenager.

“When I came to Los Angeles, I was practically nobody, and you were getting so big at the time, it was like Zooey Deschanel ran the world,” Perry recalls. “At that time, they congratulated me very much for being like you.”

Perry said that back then, before her 2008 single “I Kissed a Girl” catapulted her to fame, she used Deschanel’s popularity to break into clubs.

“I went to the club a lot,” said the “Roar” singer. “And I wanted to enter the club, but I had no money, I had no influence, I had nothing, and sometimes I would pretend to be you to enter the club.”

However, this was not a surprise to Deschanel, who said, “Well, I know this.”

“People said ‘I saw you!’ But I’m so good, and people kept saying, ‘I saw you outside, I made eye contact with you!’ “Deschanel said.

She continued, “Then everyone would tell me something about you, ‘This Katy girl, she looks like you,’ and I was like, ‘Who is this Katy?'”

Deschanel said she was “very relieved” when she met Perry in person “because you’re so pretty, and I said, ‘Oh, thank God. She’s so pretty.’

Perry added that people called her “Fooey,” which was slang for “fake Zooey.”

“I got pretty crunk at the club,” the singer said of her early years in Hollywood. “I was a wild kid. When I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17, from 17 to 23 when ‘I Kissed a Girl’ came out, they gave me 11 at the club.”

Perry also apologized in case he “misrepresented” Deschanel.

Perry and Deschanel’s live broadcast coincided with the release of the singer’s music video for “Not the End of the World” on Monday.

Their resemblance played a key role in the video, as the aliens mistook Deschanel for Perry and abducted her.

Perry said the video was filmed a few months ago, following the birth of her and her fiancé Orlando Bloom’s daughter, Daisy Dove Bloom.

The singer said fans had been asking for that music video, but because she was on maternity leave, she reached out to Deschanel to star in the video while she made a small appearance near the end.

“It was really fun that we could work together and make fun of it,” Deschanel said.