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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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[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.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

It is a little bit disturbing when you look at these full-grown adults playing teenagers and then compare that to wha a teenager would actually look like. In many cases it's baffling to me when they cast as old as they do. For Smallville they cast mid 20's Tom Welling to play Clark Kent and then gave him lots of sexy moments to appeal to the audience, but he was techniqually supposed to be 14/15 when the series began and they were giving him those shirt-ripping scenes...