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What about Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe? The first one was Robin Hood in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, the second one was him in Robin Hood (2010), and both were Clark Kent's parents (Crowe the biological one, Jor-El, and Costner the adoptive one, Jonathan Kent) in Man of Steel. Does this pair count as Full Circle Portraying? (edit: hyperlinks format)

I'm not sure if it should count in the case where two actors appear in ONE work playing the same character (for instance, at different ages), and then either do the same thing in another work or do the more traditional "same role in different works" route with another character. I guess I'd vote yes, that would be a variation of this trope which could be explicitly mentioned in the description, because

• I don't know of another trope about that variation
• many of the same elements apply: the second character COULD'VE easily been played with one or both of the actors being different from the first character, but because of some similarity in the actors and/or deliberate Casting Gag or Production Posse reasons, they were not

I was tempted to just throw this variation into my rewrite, but it seemed like a big enough deviation from the normal use of the trope that I'll let the idea cook for a bit longer.

Not sure this quite counts as an example, but Jackie Chan played Monkey in the Kung Fu Panda films and James Sie played him in the TV series ... and Sie also played Jackie Chan!