Sometimes when they hire 25 year olds to play teens, and then 35-40 year olds to play their parents
*lol* Have you seen the original version of The Manchurian Candidate (1962)? Angela Lansbury was only three years older than Laurence Harvey - who played her son.
Both the Lawrence Olivier and Mel Gibson versions of Hamlet featured actresses playing their "mothers" who were no older than the actors were. Which might work fine in theater but movies? not so much.
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Date: 2013-07-29 06:32 pm (UTC)*lol* Have you seen the original version of The Manchurian Candidate (1962)? Angela Lansbury was only three years older than Laurence Harvey - who played her son.
Both the Lawrence Olivier and Mel Gibson versions of Hamlet featured actresses playing their "mothers" who were no older than the actors were. Which might work fine in theater but movies? not so much.