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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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[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Sometimes when they hire 25 year olds to play teens, and then 35-40 year olds to play their parents, I get confused and have to stop myself from reading the parents as older siblings . . .

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Aw man, poor Charisma.

And, holy cow, VK looked like a girl! (And given his current look on Mad Men http://wpc.4d27.edgecastcdn.net/004D27/2013/MadMen/MadStyleS6E11/Mad+Style+S6E11+24.jpg... a guy who probably wishes he had some of his hair back)

And the hilarious part of what SMG looked like at 16 (while playing Kendal on AMC) is that after AMC got called out by the fans as a teenaged Kendal being used as a device to de-age Erica Kane they had to age adjust Kendal upward, to the only plausible age for the character given that Erica had to have given birth to Kendal prior to the show being on air. End result, at 16 SMG was playing 21 year old character!)

[tasabian.livejournal.com]

Charisma looks younger at 30 than she does with the big hair!

[12-12-12.livejournal.com]

OMGGGG this is the most entertaining post ever. I can't stop laughing at Vincent K.

[ladyoneill.livejournal.com]

Bianca's finally playing an adult as a recurring character on Teen Wolf but two years ago she was still playing a teen on Pretty Little Liars. I couldn't believe it was her because it was like a dozen years since she was on Buffy playing the same age!

VK's hair on Mad Men is just sad--if he really does shave it, thank god!

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Aww, they were so baby-faced as kids I want to squish them! Which is probably why young kids aren't cast. Too much, aww!

SMJ is an interesting case as she played an adult as a teen and a teen as an adult.

Maybe she's just versatile? I remember being shocked to find she was only 14 portraying Kendall. And won an Emmy! Wow.

[silverusagi]

You know, I remember seeing an episode of Doogie Howser, M.D., and thinking how NPH actually looked like a kid. And looking it up, he was actually 16 when he was playing a 16 year old. Rarely is that the case.

[myfriendamy.livejournal.com]

lol aw. Kind of amazing!

[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!

[stolenglimpse.livejournal.com]

Charisma must have had a blast seeing Cordelia had this hair in her nightmare from... Nightmares lol

Allyson always had this sort of baby face like. Still to this day she does in a way.

I'd love to see the VM kids versus the actors at the same age. Even The O.C.

Some are so flagrant they are not that age and others pass pretty good. Pointing again at Allyson.

[heavenly44.livejournal.com]

these pictures are hilarious. what's super creepy is that SMG played a 21 year old when she was 13.

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[shapinglight]

Poor Charisma! What awful hair.

Who is the person in the final two pics? I don't recognise him at all.

[elli.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it surprises me that I cannot guess peoples age anymore. But such thing does explain them.

[mcjulie.livejournal.com]

That picture of Charisma is going to keep me entertained all day.

[firstillusion.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, I find it amusing. On the other hand, it's really disturbing. Especially Bianca Lawson on Pretty Little Liars, that was just plain wrong to me.

[yourlibrarian]

All I can think of when looking at Charisma's teenage hair was that great line from Angel: "The government gave me bad hair!"

[apeygirl.livejournal.com]

My God, that Tumblr is a time-thief! I just couldn't stop clicking next.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

And weirdly when she cut her hair for the flashback in Restless she still looked almost that young again!

Actually she was wearing a longer wig in Restless but you're absolutely right - I thought she looked exactly like her S1-2 self in that scene. it did't look like a wig at all. (Compared for instance to the wigs she wears on flashback scenes for HIMYM but I don't think they're even trying, really.)

I completely bought Sarah and Aly in the early seasons esp 1 & 2 as teenagers. Sarah looks like a cute little round-faced baby compared to later. S5 marks a significant shift IMO (blackfrancine noted this once re: Buffy's elegance in later seasons.) I think Sarah is five years older than Buffy in real life? Even in S4 though she still seems very young and small but in S5 on that changes and she looks closer to Sarah's real age. that actually works thematically because Buffy's been through a lot of hardship in addition to having to take on the role of parent to Dawn. And of course I could not have watched Buffy have sex with Spike in S6 if she looked younger. Bangel was squicky enough as it was.