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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 . . .

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

In The Vampires Diaries the actress playing Aunt Jenna was actually younger than the actor portraying the 15 year old she was meant to be guardian too...

And I can understand going up to 19 or 20 when selecting for a teenage role, but I draw the line at an actor playing teenage when they're closer to 30 than 20 lol

[heavenly44.livejournal.com]

me too. I keep thinking of them as siblings.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

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.