Katie Holmes enters a strange world of mind-control and 'cult' clone costumes... but it's just for a new movie

PUBLISHED: 14:13 EST, 15 November 2013 | UPDATED: 17:44 EST, 15 November 2013

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She has one of the most famous faces in Hollywood.

But it was hard to distinguish Katie Holmes as she filmed with some lookalike castmates on the set of her new Science Fiction film The Giver in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday.

The 34-year-old was joined by another actress who the spitting image of the pretty brunette.

New Sci-fi film: Katie Holmes was seen filming her new movie The Giver in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday

To make things even more complicated, the two women wore the exact same cream ensemble, consisting of a matching shift dress, coat and a pair of T-bar wedge heels.

With their brunette tresses bundled up high in buns on their head, the two women looked like clones of one another.

Katie also filmed scenes with a little girl riding a bicycle, who could have well passed for her own daughter Suri Cruise.

Matching: The actress wore a matching cream shift dress, coat and T-bar heels to film her scenes with
Alexander Skarsgård, seen behind her

Clones: Katie was joined by her fellow castmates who all dressed in the same attire, with one woman looking just like her doppelganger

The rest of the male and female cast members also wore matching cream ensembles giving them a cult-like feel.

The Giver is based on the controversial best-selling novel by Lois Lowry.

The Science Fiction/Fantasy film is based around Jonas (played by Brenton Thwaites), who learns of the real world outside his idyllic life.

Katie plays his mother, while True Blood star Alexander Skarsgard portrays his father.

Is that Suri? Katie also filmed with a little girl who looked a lot like her daughter Suri Cruise

At first Jonas's world is presented as a utopian society, but it is quickly realised that he is being raised in a world of organised culture.

Husbands and wives in his community are matched according to personalities which balance each other out, and couples are only allowed to have two children, one boy and one girl.

However, women are not allowed to become pregnant themselves, and are rather assigned a birth mother who bear the children for them.

And once the couple have raised those said children, they are then separated from their brood, moving onto what is described as 'housing facility for childless adults.'

Words of wisdom: Katie posted a message talking of 'struggle,' 'conflicts' and a 'real man' emerging on Thursday as ex-husband Tom Cruise's personal life continues to get picked apart while knee-deep in a $50m lawsuit against a publishing house

Their children are then encouraged to forget about their parents and go on to start families of their own, with the entire process aided by medication prescribed to 'surpress emotions'.

If any rules of the community are broken three times, individuals are eventually released or dismissed to the outside world, however in Lowry's novel it is later discovered that they are euthanised with poison.

The children's novel initially created controversy with many criticising on the inappropriateness of the subject matter for children.

Sweet treats: Katie posted a snap of some cupcakes on offer on the set of her new movie this week

However, in the United States and Australia it is widely read in many middle schools.

Meanwhile, Katie is keeping busy on set while her ex-husband Tom Cruise's personal life continues to get picked apart while knee-deep in a $50m lawsuit against a publishing house.

On Thursday, the actress posted a message that could easily be meant for her former spouse.

Not forever: On Monday it will be seven years since Katie and Tom wed in Italy; they divorced in 2012

'The real struggle begins when you have to contend against a part of your own self,' read Andre Maraux's words.

'Up to that point, it's all plain sailing. Yet it's only from such inner conflicts that a real man emerges.'

The passage ends, 'Yes, we've always got to fear the world within ourselves, there's no escaping it.'

On Monday it will be seven years since Tom, 51, and Katie tied the knot in Italy.

During the action star's deposition with Bauer publishing - which printed two stories about how the Oblivion actor allegedly 'abandoned' Suri after he and Katie split - Tom admitted Scientology played a role in the crumbling of his third marriage, but he later changed that statement to say his religion did not play a part in their divorce.

The deposition transcript also brings up how the superstar didn't see his daughter Suri for 110 days and how he spent time with Scientologists and Cameron Diaz rather than flying to his youngest daughter's side. The case is expected to go to court next year.

Daily new details emerge from Tom's battle, offering more insight into the icon's private life.

On Wednesday Star delivered a full cover story, titled Secrets & Lies, about the details of Tom's September 9 deposition that included being questioned about his father.

When asked by opposing counsel if the actor saw a parallel between how little time he spent with Suri and how little time Tom's own father Thomas Mapother, spent with him, Tom said, 'Absolutely none, My father didn't pay money. He didn't call.'

Later Tom told the attorney, 'Even the fact that you would suggest that I was being like my father... in terms of abandoning my children, I find that greatly offensive.'

When Katie divorced Tom in 2012, she got sole physical custody and was given child support.

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Mrs Runner5k, Maryland, 1 hour ago

The book really made me cry. I will look out for this movie.

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Judy, Sydney, 1 hour ago

The Giver is an awesome book, hope they make a great film out of it.

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MissJG90, London, 1 hour ago

Art imitating life.

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Indie, My Town, United States, 1 hour ago

whew! thought she was re-joining Scientology for a moment!

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Britanya, London, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago

Nicole Kidman made The Golden Compass as a secret message (about religion) to her children with Tom Cruise .... She also made The Stepford Wives before that. I guess that's the only way you can communicate with Tom Cruise-- by cryptic messages!