Did you know I played Padme’s double in the Phantom Menace? I know, I know…I told George the script sucked…he insisted.
Ooh! Oooh! What do you think of Orlando Bloom?
(Incidentally, she’s only one year older than me. This significantly weirds me out.)
I thought it was bad when Mike Tyson became the heavyweight champion of the world. I was older than the baddest man on the planet? Yikes.
Then I started getting older than more and more professional athletes. The NFL players were the last holdout for me, (not being a baseball fan), and now there are virtually no players in the league older than me.
But it was much, much, much worse just this year. I have clearly wasted my life, as now, by a matter of months I am older than the head coach of the New York Jets.
Not players…that was bad enough. An NFL friggin’ head coach!
Oy.
Someone mentioned Keira Knightley. I was a big fan of the movie The Hole, in which she goes topless in a couple scenes. (I dig flat-chested skinny chicks almost as much as buxom short chicks.) Later while checking IMDB I noticed she was only 16 at the time of the movie’s release. Gah! Bad jailbait, bad!
Aren’t there laws against naked 16 year olds? Yeesh.
I haven’t seen the film. Were the scenes sexual?
I think (no cite) that it’s been legally established that non-sexual nudity in no way violates child porn laws- and I supposed if you were daring you could even try shooting a sexual nude scene and make the case that although it is sexual it is not pornographic. So, even if the topless scenes were sexual it might be o.k. (although still risky territory in the U.S.)
Also, if we’re just talking toplessness, breasts aren’t sex organs.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an American film that showed an underage girl’s breasts, but I’ve definitely seen it in European films that were imported into and publicly screened in the U.S. (only one that comes to mind is La Pianiste).
As for answering the OP. The reason this is tough for me is that most of the actresses younger than me actually started out as child stars then gradually grew up while pursuing their careers.
So, when I first noticed Christina Ricci, Kirsten Dunst, Natalie Portman, and a few others, they were younger than me but they were most definitely children.
I guess the first time I ever saw Rachel Liegh Cook in anything was probably Josie and the Pussycats. She was younger than me, yet played an adult (albeit a very young adult).
Ah, that explains it. They skirted close to the edge, but not over.
It’s a fun movie, other than the naked minor thing. Keira and Thora Birch hole up in a bomb shelter with a couple guys. (Mmmm, Thora.) In one scene Keira is fooling around with a guy on a cot, where he’s groping all over her, pulling her pants down far enough to be illegal in Japan if she wasn’t so shaved, and then dry-humping her with his hand. Thora breaks it up, and Keira gets up, straightens out her clothes, then mere seconds later she turns and flashes the guys her tits. So certainly they worked in nudity at a point when the audience is expected to be hot 'n bothered, but there’s nothing sexual in the frame at the time she flashes.
The second titty shot of her is in a medical context, so no issue there.
Surely you saw Rachel smashing a kitchen up with a frying pan yelling “THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS!” heh. That was the best anti-drug commercial ever.
Wow! That was so long ago, I never connected the girl in the commercial with post-fame Rachel Leigh Cook! I do remember the commercial, but can’t conjure any vivid images of it. Googling has only got people talking about it, can’t find video or stills from the commercial. I’d love to watch it again knowing that it’s her. Wiki promises a link to the video, but seems the link isn’t any good anymore.
Now she’s actually only 4 years younger than me, so that far back I too was, well, maybe not a “child” (I’d need a date on the commercial to verify that), but I was certainly a minor.
Has that changed over time? Weird.
Ha Ha.
I meant: Now,
That’s “Now” comma
as in “Now I’m about to make a point about something just you watch,”
Probably Gwyneth Paltrow.
I’m having a lovely time visualizing Gwyneth, Kiera, Scarlett, etc., as “adult actresses.” As opposed to just grown-up actresses.
“Think clean thoughts, chum.”
We WILL recover “adult” as a useful term not automatically synonymous with “pornographic,” ladies & gentlemen.
Yeah I knew Keira was in my age range, and at first I made a big deal out of it. Now my fantasies of movie starlets weren’t about age differences as well as societal circles, now they were just society circles.
Personally I’m flipping out as I am more and more “Sir.” I’m 23 in October damnit, just call me Dude. I’m cool with it.
My tipping point was not so much an actress, Erika Elaniak was the first playboy playmate younger than me. sigh
1985?!? The year I graduated from high school?!?
What the hell is going on? I cannot be this old…
Gwenyth Paltrow was the first actress I noticed who was younger than me, soon to be followed by Angelina Joelie. I didn’t really feel old at the time. Back then, it was just a matter of realizing that they had taken different life paths than I did.
The movies started making me feel old when I started seeing actors and actresses born after 1983. I’m sorry, but if you weren’t born when Return of the Jedi stopped running in the theaters, then you are a kid. You cannot be considered a full-fledged adult, if you were born after the original Star Wars trilogy ran its course. Now go play in a sandbox or something, and stop getting jobs and making money and having kids, because you’re making me feel like an old geezer.
For some strange reason, I remember when Miss America was younger than I was. This was back in the '60s, and Miss America was a bigger deal than it is now.
Now, I’m actually older than the last two Presidents of the U.S.
Yeah, me too.
Doing a little further research (this is fun!) I find I am a year younger than Mary Stuart Masterson, and three years younger than (gasp, pant) Maggie Cheung. On the other hand, I have five years on Gwyneth Paltrow and Molly Parker, seven on Chloe Sevigny, and twelve on Ziyi Zhang.
I’m stopping here.
During Spring Training, I was looking over the Seattle Mariners’ 40-man roster and discovered six players who were born after I graduated from high school. Current Mariners starting pitcher Felix Hernandez was born in 1986! Jamie Moyer is the only Mariner older than me.
[sub]And stop calling teenagers “children”. If they have boobies, they’re not “children”[/sub]