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[frelling_tralk]

I've just wasted way too much time on http://actualteenadultteen.tumblr.com/ lol, they put together a picture of an actor playing 16 or 17 alongside a picture of what they actually looked like when they were were that age. It's so weird to see Hollywood's example of what passes for teenage in tv and film










I always thought Sarah and Alyson passed okay actually (well Sarah was only 2 or 3 years older than the part anyway), but Nicky and Charisma were ridiculously obvious when they were both close to 30 and still playing 16/17 wtf. And Joss did hire an actual teenager for the part of Kendra unusually, but Bianca Lawson is 31 in the second pic and still playing a teenager...

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[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Eliza was 17? I was just rewatching Dollhouse and thinking, does this woman age? But that explains it. She so seemed like an older actress. But maybe that's just the Faith character, you know?

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Yep, although I'm not sure whether she had turned 18 by the time of doing the darker sex stuff in Consequences? Michelle was pretty much still seen as a kid and was chaffing against it when she was 17 at the end of Bts, so it's just odd when you hear Nicky Brenden talk about the pasties that kept slipping off Eliza during their sex scene in The Zeppo and how much he enjoyed the scene for that reason, it's like everyone forgot that she was barely of age when she first played Faith!