Right. Kunis was the only one playing a character that was the same age as her. The rest were supposed to be 16, but they weren’t in real life. Some very obviously as the seasons wore on.
I don’t know the actual age of Lawrence’s character, but I’m pretty sure it was supposed to be older than 21. The same for American Hustle, where she played the haggard old wife to Christian Bale. And now the director wants her to play the 40 year old woman who invented all those Made For TV cleaning products. I think someone needs to sit him down and tell him how old she really is. Repeatedly.
Virtually every father/son or mother/daughter role recently has been played by actors whose ages do not fit. The most recent example I saw was the father/son team in Pacific Rim. The actors were 15 years apart, which may or may not be a comment on relationships in Australia.
some turn back the clock films, there must be actors/ actresses playing way different ages.
what about this film back to the Future Michael J fox had to play a different age?
unless I made a mistake.
Oh, Here’s an interesting one I almost forgot about. In I Remember Mama (1948), 50-year-old Irene Dunne was cast as Mama, who was about 50, or maybe a little younger, but Dunne was so youthful-looking, that she had to wear age make-up.
Dunne, born in 1898, had spent most of her career player women anywhere from 5, to 10 years younger than she actually was. It’s hard to believe she was 39 when she did The Awful Truth. She looks about 32 or 33, and if someone had told me she was 29, I’d have believe it. She was 42 when she did My Favorite Wife.
Still, he’s depicted usually as much older, and I think that’s been true from early on. When you think how long Victoria herself lived, I think that from the beginning, readers have had a sense of Scrooge old before his time.
Yes, too, too common. I mentioned the Golden Girls issue earlier.
But my current peeve is Sasha Alexander is less than 12 years younger than Sharon Lawrence who plays her mother on Rizzoli & Isles. But this type doesn’t match the topic as it’s the parent that’s playing younger, not the child playing older.
I think, as per the other age thread, we should exclude actors deliberately playing/made up to be someone for aging purposes. Such as Hoffman in Little Big Man. Otherwise I’d have to mention Slavitza Jovan who played the 8000+ year old Gozer as a 30 year old in Ghostbusters.
Sarah Michelle Gellar was originally hired for a soap opera, she was 16 playing a 21 year old. Later, she was hired for Buffy as a 20 year old playing a 15 year old.
Or something like that. My numbers may be slightly off, but that’s the gist of it.
Sally Field played Tom Hanks’ love interest in one movie, then played his mom in another movie (Forrest Gump). Of course, what people fail to mention is that much of her role in Forrest Gump, she’s mom alongside a boy playing Forrest, so the age makes more sense in that context.
