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A person plays a character with specific skills or habits, and it's assumed by viewers and fans that they have those same characteristics in real life. I'm specifically looking at two things that occurred with the cast of commodoreHUSTLE. Following the episode "It's Magic!", which featured Alex using sleight of hand to cheat at Magic the Gathering, one of the crew's real-life friends who works at their local game store (Nelson) pulled them aside and asked if he had to keep an eye on Alex when he came in for game nights. Later on, when Nelson became a recurring character on the series, many people assumed he was the manager for the game store when he was actually just a worker who was available to film more often.
Maybe we do have this, but the ones I thought would I apply don't quite fit. …But I Play One on TV is apparently specifically about people being referred to by the name of the character they play. I thought that was I Am Not Spock, but apparently that's about people only being cast as a single character. Role Association is when seeing an actor play one character makes you think of another character they played, Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality is about people who genuinely don't know someone isn't their character, and Actor/Role Confusion is just that but in-universe. Or am I missing something and one of these is the one to use?