I always wondered about this! Although I didn’t care enough to research it. I remember watching A VERY BRADY CHRISTMAS and thinking “The hell? Cindy’s STILL in college?”
Well, considering Spikes supposed to be what, in his hundreds?, I don’t think we can get on him too much for his age…
Fonzie was way too old to be a hood.
Kaley Cuoco plays Bridget, the older of the two sisters. She’s 18. [sub]That’s a bad picture of her.[/sub]
Amy Davidson plays Kerry, the younger sister. She’s 24.
A similar bit of casting takes place over on Malcolm in the Middle.
Frankie Muñiz plays the middle brother (of the three boys who still live at home). His birthday is 12/2/85.
Justin Berfield plays Malcolm’s older brother Reese. Justin’s birthday is 2/25/86, making him about four months younger than Frankie.
And then there’s the Harry Potter kids. Though they’re all the same age in the books, the actor who plays Ron (Rupert Grint) is the oldest (turned 15 this summer); then Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), who turned 14 this summer; then Hermione (Emma Watson), who turned 13 this April. Meaning that Ron is two years older than Hermione, who’s supposed to be the same age as him.
To be fair, a one or two year difference isn’t that big of a deal, and in many cases, hardly worth mentioning. Especially when you’re talking about teenage actors, who tend to look a bit younger or older than they actually are.
Although the 6 year difference between the “older” and “younger” sister on 8 rules is rather amusing.
Now age differences that could be considered insulting to the viewers’ intelligence (such as Andrea on Beverly Hills 90210, who was in her thirties while playing a high school student, and could have had a much easier time passing as a teacher or actors who are younger than their “children” on certain shows and in movies) are worth noting.
Take it up with the producers.
What the hell are you babbling about? I said Nicholas Brendon was older than all of the other cast members when he was in high school. I didn’t mean everything that’s ever uttered two sylables in the Buffyverse, I meant among the regulars who started the show.
I failed to realize that Cordelia was a regular in the first season, so I was off sort of.
What this has to do with season 6 and 7 I’ll never know. Which incidentally were utter shite and subpar respectively.
When Greer Garson made the movie Mrs. Miniver during World War II, she was eleven years older than Richard Ney, who played her older son Vin Miniver. After filming, they married.
In the movie “Grumpier Old Men,” *Ann Guilbert is only six years older than Sophia Loren, who plays her daughter.
*Best known to one generation of people as Grandma Yetta on “The Nanny” and another generation of people as Millie Helper on “The Dick van Dyke” show. (Helper? Does anyone know anyone with a last name of “Helper?”)
There are 25 telephone listings for the surname “Helper” in the state of New York. The 1930 U.S. census has 284 persons named Helper.
In the 1957 movie “Man of a Thousand Faces,” 58-year-old James Cagney (who played Lon Chaney from the ages of about 25 to his death at 47) was two years younger than the Celia Lovsky, who played Chaney’s mom.
In a side note, it’s kinda strange how bad they had Chaney’s bride freaking out so bad when she discovered the horrible secret that Chaney hid: His parents were DEAF! OMG! Whether that happened IRL, or was just a plot device, it seemed a little much.
And Michael Learned, who played Olivia Walton, was only twelve years older than Richard Thomas, who played her son John-Boy.
Mary Pickford was 32 when she played the 12 year old Little Annie Rooney.
It wouldn’t be that bad if that were all, but with the other child characters being played by actual children, this thirty year old woman running around the screen with them is unnerving to say the least. I love Pickford, but this movie is just bizarre.
Sure, but in a movie dealing with time travel and the necessity of Fox’s Marty character meeting his teenage parents-to-be before he was born, perhaps we can fogive this casting choice.