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It’s also the age of 35 year old women playing the mothers of 25 year old men
by Saint_Genet 4y ago
It’s also the age of 35 year old women playing the mothers of 25 year old men
- WalterBright 4y agoThat's nothing new.
- Saint_Genet 4y agoBut neither is older actors. People like Cary Grant, Paul Newman, and Robert Redford played hunks well into their 50s
- nonameiguess 4y agoThey don't cite the source, but the claim in the article is that the average age of top-billed actors has gone up faster than the average age of the audience, not that yesteryear had 0 older stars.
- greedo 4y agoAnd Tom Cruise is 60.
- Retric 4y agoHis latest movie was also filmed 3 years ago in large part due to how long CGI takes but also how long movies are edited. So not only do Actors age more between filming and release, but it also takes longer for a new actor to catch on. Aka they film a movie when their 20, it’s a breakout hit when their 23, their next movie comes out when their 26.
- WalterBright 4y agoIt was filmed 3 years ago because the release was delayed due to the pandemic. They didn't want it to flop because people weren't going to the theaters.
- Retric 4y agoIt was finished filming almost a year before they started shutting down movie theaters for the pandemic and they didn’t release promotional materials back then. So, that pushes the earliest summer release as 2 to 2.5 years after filming each scene assuming COVID actually delayed things.
- raydev 4y agoThey did release promo, the first trailer came out in 2019. Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flURw76_UCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flURw76_UCU You can see they had settled on June 2020 as the release date, but, you know what happened next. That release date was fully locked in until it became clear COVID wasn't going away. There were other, earlier delays: the film was initially scheduled for 2019, but they spent most of that year doing reshoots.
- Retric 4y agoOdd, I check for summer blockbusters it’s the in January or early February and it wasn’t on the 2020 list. But it’s clearly on this list from dec 2019: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/2020-movies-to-see-140042905.html https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/2020-movies-to-see-14004...
- WalterBright 4y agoAnd he has his own P-51.
- greedo 4y agoThat bugged me. No way could someone on a Captain's salary (or even what he was being paid as a test pilot if on reserve status) afford one.
- mellavora 4y agoespecially not after paying off his own private airfield.
- bluedino 4y agoHis love interest drives a classic Porsche 911 and owns a huge bar in San Diego.
- conductr 4y agoWho said he bought it? Implying gift/inheritance not theft. If I was a grandpa and had one in my shed, I'd probably give it to my grandkid that happens to be a top gun pilot/instructor.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoYep, and the reverse also... 35+yo people playing highscoolers was the norm. I mean, i guess it's kinda hard to film scenes not-in-chronological-order with a teenager who visibly changes during the filming, but it's not an impossible thing to do.
- jfengel 4y ago35 year olds also don't have to go to school, or be tutored. And they're allowed to work longer hours than actual children are.
- conductr 4y agoFunny that actors in their 20s, especially early 20s isn't the obvious solution when bodily change has slowed but age can still easily pass for HS aged.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Funny that actors in their 20s, especially early 20s isn't the obvious solution when bodily change has slowed but age can still easily pass for HS aged. They are. Sure, there are some that are wildly out of that range, but since someone else raised BtVS let's look at how old the main cast was in 1997, when they were playing sophomores in high school: - Sarah Michelle Gellar was 20 - Alyson Hannigan was 23 - Charisma Carpenter was 27 - Nicholas Brendan was 27
- slyall 4y agoI hard that in the recent book from the Howard brothers. If you are under 18 there are all sorts of restrictions on hours worked, supervision, etc. So it is a lot easier to get a 18+ actor to play a 12-17 year old than someone the actual age. Part of the reason child actors struggle to transition to adult roles. 3-4 year enforced gap in their career.
- MiddleEndian 4y agoI was rewatching earlier seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and it's hilarious that the character Xander Harris(0) was perceived as a scrawny high school nerd. 0. https://assets.mycast.io/characters/xander-harris-794251-normal.jpg?1593740559 https://assets.mycast.io/characters/xander-harris-794251-nor...
- hawski 4y agoThat reminds me about Laila Lockhart Kraner from Netflix's "Gabby's Dollhouse" is presumably in her early 20s. She plays an 11 year old.
- mgkimsal 4y agoGoogle showing she's 26 or 27?
- hawski 4y agoI haven't seen a conclusive answer. My search results suggest that she may be 22, but it is mostly based on the fact that she has some voice acting credits from 2003. Someone on Reddit mentioned that they read an article saying "(...) she moved to LA w her family when she was 6, and then took up acting classes “a while later”" and this suggest that voice acting would probably be after this. So she would be from 1997 at least and that would make her 25 (or more). The show had its premiere on January 2021. Regardless it is remarkable or even more remarkable. I looked her up, because my daughter was asking about her.
- BurningFrog 4y agoTried to look it up, but she's kept her age secret. I'm surprised that works in 2022!
- MisterBastahrd 4y agoNow do the actors of Beverly Hills 90210. When the show started, Ian Ziering was 26. Jason Priestly was 21. Lukey Perry was 24. Gabrielle Carteris was 29. Shannon Doherty was 23.
- Retric 4y agoIt’s seems more reasonable to use 26 year old actors to play a ~16 year old high school students than 11 year olds. Daniel Radcliffe on the other hand was actually 11-12 when playing an 11-12 year old character. By comparison Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy simply didn’t fit nearly as well because he was a 2 years older. https://fantasytopics.com/harry-potter-cast-real-life-ages-during-movies/ https://fantasytopics.com/harry-potter-cast-real-life-ages-d...
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- ChuckNorris89 4y ago>It’s also the age of 35 year old women playing the mothers of 25 year old men Its my gripe with the latest Dune adaptation. No way that actress was old enough to be Paul's mom unless she had him when she was 6 years old. She looked more like his siter than his mother. It bugs me when they don't have age apropriate family members with such obviously wide age gaps.
- antisthenes 4y ago> No way that actress was old enough to be Paul's mom unless she had him when she was 6 years old. If you know anything about Dune's lore, you would know why this is the case. The movie absolutely does not go into enough detail about this or explain the abilities of Bene Gesserit. In fact, I don't think it does it at all.
- beezlebroxxxxxx 4y agoI understand your complaint in the larger context of popular culture. But in the context of Dune, which takes place 1000s of years in the future, and in which there exist a genetically manipulating pseudo-cult group of witches/spies who are desperately seeking the ascendancy of humankind to a higher plane of existence, it is slightly more reasonable that Jessica Atreides looks the way she does, as a hyper attractive concubine that was intended (you might say "designed") to eventually develop the bloodline of a pseudo-god. But that also only really makes sense if you're invested in the narrative. The real kicker is that Paul probably should have looked younger. In the novel, he arrives on Arrakis when he is 15.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoIn-universe, they also have drugs that slow aging by a lot, so wealthy people can live for up to 200 years.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoSounds like something up Bezos's and Musk's alleys from our universe.
- rasz 4y agoalso 55 mothers of 45 year olds (The Northman)
- dredmorbius 4y agoThe Graduate (1967) featured Dustin Hoffman (aged 30) playing Ben, hooking up with Anne Bancroft, mother of Ben's girlfriend. Bancroft was 36 at the time of release. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Hoffman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Hoffman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bancroft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bancroft
- rasz 4y agoIn the last 20 years more and more movies started delivering appropriate casting for f->m age gaps, mainly because of pr0n revolution and popularity of MILF trope. American Pie 1999. Jennifer Coolidge -> Eddie Thomas = 19. Don Jon 2013. Julianne Moore -> Joseph Gordon-Levitt = 21. Mother Lover 2009 SNL skit is a classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0DeIqJm4vM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0DeIqJm4vM. Patricia Clarkson -> Andy Samberg = 19. Susan Sarandon -> Justin Timberlake = 35. The French Dispatch 2021. Frances McDormand -> Timothée Chalamet = 38. Comare that to My Tutor 1983 where 8 year difference was still seen risque.
- goto11 4y agoThis is not a new trend though. In Lawrence Oliviers Hamlet from 1948, Hamlets mother is played by an actress which is 10 years younger than Olivier. The article shows a graph of the age gap between leads, and it shows it slightly narrowing, while both men an women stars are getting older on average.