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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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[falafel-musings.livejournal.com]

I remember I had a crush on Vincent Kartheiser when I was a teenager and I saw him in 'Another Day in Paradise' with James Woods. He was very girlish and scrawny back then. I hardly recognized him when I started watching Mad Men (I never watched Angel).

Never knew SMG was not a natural blonde!

[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

I saw him in 'Another Day in Paradise'

That's where I first remembered him from too. Pretty decent flick, I thought.

[falafel-musings.livejournal.com]

Yes, good little film. Great music in it.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I wish that Sarah would go back to brunette to be honest, I thought she looked gorgeous when she went brunette again shortly after Buffy ended. IMO the super plantinum blonde she currently has isn't doing her any favours

And this will sound silly, but I always liked that they got a little brunette girl to play younger Buffy in Killed By Death, so I was a little bit disappointed that they got a super-blonde little girl for the flashbacks in season 5. Looking at the darker blonde in season 1 and then the really bleached blonde for season 2, there was no way to expect us to buy that Buffy had always had that golden-blonde hair colour that she had in season 5

[liliaeth]

uhm, when my sister was a kid, she was very very blond, then as she grew up, before she started coloring her hair, she became a brunette. Only now as an adult, she prefers being a blond. so it's not that unrealistic.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Like I said just upthread to falafel, Sarah is about the only natural brunette who I think looks good as a blond (but I've never gotten the big deal about blond hair generally). But not the pale washed-out shade in The Crazy ones as you mention.

Looking at the darker blonde in season 1 and then the really bleached blonde for season 2, there was no way to expect us to buy that Buffy had always had that golden-blonde hair colour that she had in season 5

The hair color is bad enough (almost too golden blond, like silk embroidery floss.) but the facial structure of the girl in TwoTW is all wrong - her face is very square (Sarah's is quite round) and that's just for starters. Her forehead seems a bit squat, the top of her head flat, the nose wrong. And she's in very very bright light so there's no fudging the fact that in no way could that girl have ever been Buffy(Sarah).

But I saw the entire series in three weeks, so the memory of Killed by Death was pretty fresh; I wondered why they went for such a completely different looking little girl. Did they think no one would notice?

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Never knew SMG was not a natural blonde!

Sarah is the only natural brunette I can think of off the top of my head where I think she looks as good or better as a brunette; it just suits her, or at least the warmer honey-toned shades in btvs and the ringer. NOT the paler, almost platinum color she's got for the new series The Crazy Ones, which washes her out.