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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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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.