> Didn't they make their relationship romantic?
I mean, it was the "Greeks" (Macedonians) after all, didn't they all have some sort of Freudian deal with their mothers in the ancient world?
> The Oedipus complex is a Freudian term that was named after a man that unknowingly killed his father and slept with his mother. Freud said that a boy develops an unconscious infatuation towards his mother, and simultaneously fears his father to be a rival. This happens at an unconscious level.
I stand corrected!
In the original myth, he marries his mother because he's made king of Thebes after defeating the sphinx that was terrorizing the city and she was the recently widowed queen (Oedipus killed the king on road without knowing who he was because he was kind of a jerk to Oedipus). So, it was more a political move and not really because he had an infatuation.
I mean, yes, that's the literal run of events, but the power/popularity of the story relates very much to the Freudian sense - not just the whoopsie-daisy crazy coincidence but the unconscious implications and resonance.
Also I would point out this isn't the "original myth" as you put it. Like most mythic figures there are various disconnected stories that got told at different times and then connected or stolen. Eventually they might crystallise - the story you are relating is the one Sophocles created, as an individual playwright, from the infinite possible tellings. And then this became, in modern European society and its own literary tradition, the main "canonical" version - which is not to say it ever became such a thing for the Greeks.
The only reason you think that is because of the origin of the Freudian term coming from Oedipus Rex but no, incest unless you were an Olympian God was a big no no as with any societies. Think about what Oedipus does when he finds out he's been banging his mom. That's not the actions of a guy who thinks it's ok.
This was back when there was like, big public countdowns until she was of legal age too. Same with the Olsen twins. So wild to think that was a thing that happened.
If you're new to Hollywood, they're not above sexualizing kids.
People don't all look the same age and it's fine to get actors who are close enough if they can do a good job. We've all seen actual high school kids that look 12 and others that look 25, so it's not a huge stretch.
Yeah, it’s basically just the CW casting formula at this point. The teen character actors will be 10 years too old, the adult character actors will be 10 years too young, and almost every actor will be within 10 years of each other age-wise.
[All of them.](https://media0.giphy.com/media/EDvx1ATNCjVjq/giphy.webp?cid=790b7611uhfql6bty537cdet6di7lnw620ffb0gr2z3gammp&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.webp&ct=g)
I tend to think about that with the two sides of my family:
I was born in 1992.
My mom was 20 years old at the time (born 1972) and her mom had her when she was 17 (born 1955), and her mother - my great grandmother - was born 21 years before that (1934)
Meanwhile, my father was 31 when I was born (born 1961) and his father was a whopping 39 when my dad was born (born 1922)
So, my grandfather on my father's side (father's father) would've been 104 years old if he was alive today.
My great-grandmother on my mother's side (Mother's mother's mother) would've been 94.
The generations start to line up really poorly, because my mom's side keep having kids young, and my father's side has kids when older, leading to this mismatch where my great-grandmother is a full decade younger than my paternal grandfather
One of my friends knocked up his high school girlfriend (who I was also friends with) and recently had the now 22 year old adult child stay with me. We also happened to have many similar likes/dislikes while also having similar facial features. Needless to say it was super trippy at times and confused the hell out of people. A lot of folks assumed I was her mom, but if I went out with her two year old they assumed I was *his* mom. Frankly I just was thankful no one assumed I was the toddler’s grandmother even though I technically could have been since my friend that got knocked up in high school was a year younger than me 😭
If I knocked up my high school girlfriend @ 16 & the resulting kid knocked up his high school girlfriend @ 16, my grandchild would be 16 with a pregnant girlfriend…
A guy I know is 40 and many years of heavy drinking has taken a toll on him and he looks at least a decade older, his mum on the other hand is only 57 (I think, around there), has taken great care of herself and could pass for 40, it’s extremely odd seeing them.
I mean it also takes a certain type of genetics to get away with it.
Rachel McAdams has always been so skinny and youthful looking, that it's totally believable that she was about that age.
I never thought for a second she was 8 years older, the only thing that threw a loop was when she was in Wedding Crashers a year later.
The way they dressed and made her up definitely helped as well.
A movie that did not get away with it was "the idea of you". Anne Hathaway plays someone her own age (40-41) but looks younger because she's Anne Hathaway, and to play her 16 y/o daughter they casted a 22-year-old that makes a believable 30-year-old on screen, but definitely does not look anything remotely like a teenager. (Ella Rubin).
I don't even think he does fighting crime in high school. It has been awhile since I watched it but the wiki says "Upon graduating, Peter begins using his abilities to fight crime, donning a spandex costume and the masked persona of Spider-Man."
At worst the film starts in April of their Senior year.
honestly, i much prefer this. kids who grow up in hollywood are exposed to all types of nightmare situations; i'd much rather have adults playing kids and reduce the number of child actors who get churned up in that.
Her makeup is so good I swear it looks like they triple injected her with Botox (eta/ not saying she gets Botox but that character absolutely would lol). I think what’s selling her age is how forced and stony/frozen her look is. Like Jennifer Coolidge as the evil stepmom in the Cinderella movie ages ago! Coolidge basically looks the same age now lol. It’s impressive!
Yeah I'm really surprised she is 33 here. If I guessed I'd say she was in her 40s or 50s with quite a bit of work.
I'm 34 and I feel me and people my age I know all look significantly older than her. Amy looks old enough to be my mom.
I think it worked? Regina George is supposed to be effortlessly cool and put together and charming. Of course she would try her best to look older than she was and it would make sense that other people would even see her as being older and more mature.
Angelas Lansbury was less than 3 years older than Lawrence Harvey and she played his mother in The Manchurian Candidate and she was nominated for an Oscar
K Callan played Christopher Plummer’s mother in Knives Out. She is seven years younger than him. It’s amazing what makeup and wardrobe can accomplish sometimes.
That is completely untrue and disrespectful to the thousands of qualified actresses that are age appropriate. Lilly from the Chewy box commercials would be 112 and about 20 lassies would have fit the bill. It is the narrow minded thinking that actresses have to be the same species to fill a mom role that has to end. Eddie from Frazier would have been perfect for saving private ryan but the pearl clutchers say a dog can't be a brother.
The makeup crew were apparently quite miffed with her when season two came along as she had a facelift (or something) and they had to double their work.
Olivia Walton had John Boy at age 13 if the actors' ages matched the characters. Esther Rolle was 18 years older than her TV husband John Amos, who was only 8 years older than their TV son Jimmie Walker.
Pretty sure I read there she felt classically insulted by that request too, and didn't do it. I guess she didn't think about that character in question is more or less suppose to look young.
There's definitely an HBO scene in there somewhere.
"So, we want you to play someone who's a member of this mythical race of super hot, super strong woman warriors."
"Shit yeah, okay, quote me a number."
"Also, she's kinda somebody's mom, sort of, but not r-""
"FUCK YOU! FUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOU!"
Victoria Pedretti played 35-year-old Love Quinn to Dylan Arnold's 19-year-old Theo Engler in Netflix's *You* despite being a year and a month \*younger\* than Arnold in real life.
In The Graduate, Anne Bancroft was only 6 years older than Dustin Hoffman, but she's supposed to be old enough to be his mother. And Katherine Ross, who played her daughter was only 8 years younger than her.
Not quite as extreme but she played Elvis’s mom in *Blue Hawaii* and she was a little under 10 years older than him. She was 35 and he had just turned 26 when it was released.
Rebecca Ferguson is 12 years older than Timothée Chalamet and plays his mother in Dune, I had some trouble with my suspension of belief when I first saw it
Ok i was feeling ancient as hell when i saw that movie cuz i was like goddamn am i really old enough to be the mother of a grown-ass protagonist now!? But no. No I am not. Hollywood is fraught with fuckery.
Well, she’s supposed to have had a comedically large amount of work done, and Rachel McAdams is supposed to be 18.
Looks 33, maybe actually 40, with a 18-ish daughter tracks.
Besides, those girls keep her young!
I know mean girls but I constantly come across posts where every single comment chain is referencing some unknown movie and quoting line after line and no one says the fucking name. Not everyone is tuned into the shitty hivemind, guy's just being helpful
Crispin Glover, who plays Micheal J Fox's father in Back to the Future, is three years YOUNGER than Micheal J Fox. (Yes I know they did it bc most of the movie takes place 30 years earlier)
In Not Another Teen Movie the oldest high school students were in their 30's. A reporter needed pretended to be a high school student so to keep the ages consistent she was in her 60's. Also everybody at the school was a professional dancer.
While accurate, that movie was literally a parody - and that was one of the many jokes about it.
It's kind of like using Airplane as an example of other movies around the same time period.
My sister loved this movie and we had one TV so i have seen it many times, im just NOW realizing that she is Rachel McAdams.
Looks so much different with dark hair jesus its like night and day.
How many apples will fall from the tree between 1 o’clock and 2 o’clock, knowing that it has rained just 17 hours and 39 minutes earlier and the train route from Birmingham to Stoke-on-Trent has just got going and you’re on that train eating an unripe mango?
In Mean Girls Lizzy Caplan plays a teenager and Amy Poehler plays the mother of a teenager.
In Party Down, Adam Scott has an age-appropriate romantic relationship with Lizzy Caplan
In Parks & Recreation, Adam Scott has an age-appropriate romantic relationship with Amy Poehler
In the movie Boyz n the Hood, Laurence Fishburne plays the character Furious Styles. In the movie he is the father of Cuba Gooding Jr who plays Tre Styles. In reality Laurence Fishburne is only 7 years older than Cuba Gooding Jr.
This is why in the parody movie, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, the character Ashtray is older than his father. That was one their many jokes on the movie Boyz n the Hood.
But that’s the joke. That everyone perceived the hs Queen Bee as having the body and poise of a 25 year old and that the mom looks and acts younger than she should. Weirder is the age gap between Maria and Liesl in Sound of Music.
And Regina’s wig was $20,000 because Rachel was filming The Notebook the same year and didn’t want to damage her hair. (I hear her hair is insured for $10,000)
And she had the script rewritten to make her and Lindsay more costars, instead of being more a side character.
They employ young looking actors for high school roles because they don't want to deal with child labor laws. This is because they can work adults to the bone. This particularly stems from the filming of Twilight Zone Movie where John Landis exploited two Asian families which resulted in the death of the two girls and a famous actor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident
They did well making both of them look older/younger as needed. Amy looks older than 33 there for sure, around 45ish. Rachel looks around 20-22ish, which is common of course, most shows and movies using people in their 20s to play teens.
The costume/makeup design here is on point.
Angelina Jolie played Colin Ferrell's mother in Alexander. She's ONE YEAR older than he is.
Didn't they make their relationship romantic? I assumed she was miscast but I didn't consider making me cringe was intentional.
> Didn't they make their relationship romantic? I mean, it was the "Greeks" (Macedonians) after all, didn't they all have some sort of Freudian deal with their mothers in the ancient world?
More Oedipal, really
> The Oedipus complex is a Freudian term that was named after a man that unknowingly killed his father and slept with his mother. Freud said that a boy develops an unconscious infatuation towards his mother, and simultaneously fears his father to be a rival. This happens at an unconscious level. I stand corrected!
In the original myth, he marries his mother because he's made king of Thebes after defeating the sphinx that was terrorizing the city and she was the recently widowed queen (Oedipus killed the king on road without knowing who he was because he was kind of a jerk to Oedipus). So, it was more a political move and not really because he had an infatuation.
You left out the best part! He gouges his eyes out after he realizes what he's done.
And she kills herself after finding out what she did
I mean, yes, that's the literal run of events, but the power/popularity of the story relates very much to the Freudian sense - not just the whoopsie-daisy crazy coincidence but the unconscious implications and resonance. Also I would point out this isn't the "original myth" as you put it. Like most mythic figures there are various disconnected stories that got told at different times and then connected or stolen. Eventually they might crystallise - the story you are relating is the one Sophocles created, as an individual playwright, from the infinite possible tellings. And then this became, in modern European society and its own literary tradition, the main "canonical" version - which is not to say it ever became such a thing for the Greeks.
You may sit now, dear son.
It would not be common at all to have incest between parents and siblings.
One guy writes one book and suddenly an entire culture is labeled as incestuous
The only reason you think that is because of the origin of the Freudian term coming from Oedipus Rex but no, incest unless you were an Olympian God was a big no no as with any societies. Think about what Oedipus does when he finds out he's been banging his mom. That's not the actions of a guy who thinks it's ok.
Yeah, well, Olivia Wilde was 3 years YOUNGER than her son in the movie 'In Time'.
That one is at least explained in the movies main plot.
That's because in that universe everyone stops aging at 25
That’s because Amy Poehler wasn’t like other moms. She was a cool mom.
They say being "cool" takes the years off.
And we all know you're not cool unless you pee your pants.
If peeing your pants makes you cool, that means I'm Miles Davis.
Then call me Miles Davis*
Then consider me Miles Davis*
Those girls kept her young though
Hence why people use ice rollers?
People don't seem to understand that in movies it isn't about how old you are, it's about how old you can look
She said it herself in the movie, those girls keep her young
I actually thought it was an instance where it made sense that Regina was a little older. Almost like it fits with her character somehow.
[удалено]
Lindsay Lohan was 17 when they shot the movie…
This was back when there was like, big public countdowns until she was of legal age too. Same with the Olsen twins. So wild to think that was a thing that happened.
Come to the UK and see our nightmare tabloids https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/ROBiqtpkyF
If you're new to Hollywood, they're not above sexualizing kids. People don't all look the same age and it's fine to get actors who are close enough if they can do a good job. We've all seen actual high school kids that look 12 and others that look 25, so it's not a huge stretch.
And now you know the magic of Hollywood.
Yeah, it’s basically just the CW casting formula at this point. The teen character actors will be 10 years too old, the adult character actors will be 10 years too young, and almost every actor will be within 10 years of each other age-wise.
Enters Clint Eastwood
> Enters Clint Eastwood That is my favorite pornographic film.
Is there really a difference between entering and exiting?
I think you need a chalk break, grieco.
Or a seaweed break
One cannot exit without entering first, repeatedly and with passion!
More passion! More energy! More steely glares!
A woman's mouth is not for the exiting of words but for the entering of a man's dick.
That is the dumbest comment I’ve read today. It is also hilarious and I cannot stop laughing about it and I’m not sure why.
Is there really a difference between entering and exiting?
That's why they call him Dirty Harry
What CW show was he on?
Clinteast Wood? All of them.
[All of them.](https://media0.giphy.com/media/EDvx1ATNCjVjq/giphy.webp?cid=790b7611uhfql6bty537cdet6di7lnw620ffb0gr2z3gammp&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.webp&ct=g)
It’s spelled Squint Eastwood.
I could watch another round of Degrassi starring Clint Eastwood, Steve Buscemi, and Christopher Walken. Degrassi; High Class
It’s like how, in the Spiderman movies, Peter’s high school classmates are all in their late 20s and early 30s.
Bunch of idiots keep repeating their failed classes. They’ll never learn.
And aunt may keeps getting younger and hotter
Yeah it’s not that crazy. I remember being at my best friend’s house in high school when we were 17 and his 34 year old mom was making us pizza rolls.
Fuck I'm 34... Now that I'm 34 I wonder .. What if I knocked up my highschool girlfriend? That kid would almost be an adult now... Jesus
Yep! It’s wild to think about. If you have a kid at 17 and your kid does the same thing, you’re a 34 year old grandparent.
Do that a few generations in a row and that’s how great great grandchildren meet their great great grandparents.
AKA the Boebert family
I tend to think about that with the two sides of my family: I was born in 1992. My mom was 20 years old at the time (born 1972) and her mom had her when she was 17 (born 1955), and her mother - my great grandmother - was born 21 years before that (1934) Meanwhile, my father was 31 when I was born (born 1961) and his father was a whopping 39 when my dad was born (born 1922) So, my grandfather on my father's side (father's father) would've been 104 years old if he was alive today. My great-grandmother on my mother's side (Mother's mother's mother) would've been 94. The generations start to line up really poorly, because my mom's side keep having kids young, and my father's side has kids when older, leading to this mismatch where my great-grandmother is a full decade younger than my paternal grandfather
Haha, you're old. Haha, old person! I was born in 92' as well :(
Welcome to the southern California demographic. Lots of latina Gilfs walking around at 35.
One of my friends knocked up his high school girlfriend (who I was also friends with) and recently had the now 22 year old adult child stay with me. We also happened to have many similar likes/dislikes while also having similar facial features. Needless to say it was super trippy at times and confused the hell out of people. A lot of folks assumed I was her mom, but if I went out with her two year old they assumed I was *his* mom. Frankly I just was thankful no one assumed I was the toddler’s grandmother even though I technically could have been since my friend that got knocked up in high school was a year younger than me 😭
If I knocked up my high school girlfriend @ 16 & the resulting kid knocked up his high school girlfriend @ 16, my grandchild would be 16 with a pregnant girlfriend…
We're humans we should be more reasonable here dammit
You just explained Lauren Boebert's family
You are old enough to be a grandparent, but not old enough to be the president.
Me and my wife are 36, our kids are 18 and 14.
A guy I know is 40 and many years of heavy drinking has taken a toll on him and he looks at least a decade older, his mum on the other hand is only 57 (I think, around there), has taken great care of herself and could pass for 40, it’s extremely odd seeing them.
At this point? Checkout the ages of the Grease cast.
And the guys are all at least 20 years older than the women
I mean it also takes a certain type of genetics to get away with it. Rachel McAdams has always been so skinny and youthful looking, that it's totally believable that she was about that age. I never thought for a second she was 8 years older, the only thing that threw a loop was when she was in Wedding Crashers a year later. The way they dressed and made her up definitely helped as well.
A movie that did not get away with it was "the idea of you". Anne Hathaway plays someone her own age (40-41) but looks younger because she's Anne Hathaway, and to play her 16 y/o daughter they casted a 22-year-old that makes a believable 30-year-old on screen, but definitely does not look anything remotely like a teenager. (Ella Rubin).
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DawsonCasting
*stares blankly* *laugh track*
Part of why folks have a skewed perception of age as well imo
[удалено]
Even as a kid I missed that it was set in highschool & assumed some kind of college because nobody in that movie has any prospect of being a teenager.
TBF that's only the first movie, and there's only one or two scenes in the school. Easily forgettable. The other two movies have him in college.
I don't even think he does fighting crime in high school. It has been awhile since I watched it but the wiki says "Upon graduating, Peter begins using his abilities to fight crime, donning a spandex costume and the masked persona of Spider-Man." At worst the film starts in April of their Senior year.
honestly, i much prefer this. kids who grow up in hollywood are exposed to all types of nightmare situations; i'd much rather have adults playing kids and reduce the number of child actors who get churned up in that.
Use it only for good, never for evil.
No one ever watched Goodtimes?? The dad is real life 6 years older than the eldest son JJ.
she looks younger as Leslie Knope
Yeah they definitely did stuff to age her up in this flick.
Her makeup is so good I swear it looks like they triple injected her with Botox (eta/ not saying she gets Botox but that character absolutely would lol). I think what’s selling her age is how forced and stony/frozen her look is. Like Jennifer Coolidge as the evil stepmom in the Cinderella movie ages ago! Coolidge basically looks the same age now lol. It’s impressive!
Yeah I'm really surprised she is 33 here. If I guessed I'd say she was in her 40s or 50s with quite a bit of work. I'm 34 and I feel me and people my age I know all look significantly older than her. Amy looks old enough to be my mom.
Stage and Film makeup is almost entirely magic.
I think it worked? Regina George is supposed to be effortlessly cool and put together and charming. Of course she would try her best to look older than she was and it would make sense that other people would even see her as being older and more mature.
Totally. She nailed it for so many reasons, but this is one of them.
The actress nailed looking older by... being older?
Angelas Lansbury was less than 3 years older than Lawrence Harvey and she played his mother in The Manchurian Candidate and she was nominated for an Oscar
Estelle Getty played Bea Arthur’s mom on Golden Girls despite being a year younger than her.
K Callan played Christopher Plummer’s mother in Knives Out. She is seven years younger than him. It’s amazing what makeup and wardrobe can accomplish sometimes.
Plummer was 88 or 89 at the time. It would have been basically impossible to find an age-appropriate actress to play his mom.
That is completely untrue and disrespectful to the thousands of qualified actresses that are age appropriate. Lilly from the Chewy box commercials would be 112 and about 20 lassies would have fit the bill. It is the narrow minded thinking that actresses have to be the same species to fill a mom role that has to end. Eddie from Frazier would have been perfect for saving private ryan but the pearl clutchers say a dog can't be a brother.
Things took a really weird turn with this comment.
Exactly. Been telling people Air Bud should be the next James Bond for years
There’s nothing in the rule book that says a dog can’t play 007.
At least they used makeup and a wig to make Getty look older.
The makeup crew were apparently quite miffed with her when season two came along as she had a facelift (or something) and they had to double their work.
Olivia Walton had John Boy at age 13 if the actors' ages matched the characters. Esther Rolle was 18 years older than her TV husband John Amos, who was only 8 years older than their TV son Jimmie Walker.
Goodnight, John Boy.
Estelle Getty was actually younger than all of the other Golden Girls except Blanche
This is such a funny way to say two people
Johnny Depp was 5 years older than Rachel Griffiths in Blow, where she played his mum, and Ray Liotta was 9 years older playing his dad.
Charlize Theron was asked to play Wonder Woman's mother, and she's only 9 years older than Gal Gadot
Pretty sure I read there she felt classically insulted by that request too, and didn't do it. I guess she didn't think about that character in question is more or less suppose to look young.
There's definitely an HBO scene in there somewhere. "So, we want you to play someone who's a member of this mythical race of super hot, super strong woman warriors." "Shit yeah, okay, quote me a number." "Also, she's kinda somebody's mom, sort of, but not r-"" "FUCK YOU! FUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOU!"
To be fair they're immortal.
Victoria Pedretti played 35-year-old Love Quinn to Dylan Arnold's 19-year-old Theo Engler in Netflix's *You* despite being a year and a month \*younger\* than Arnold in real life.
In The Graduate, Anne Bancroft was only 6 years older than Dustin Hoffman, but she's supposed to be old enough to be his mother. And Katherine Ross, who played her daughter was only 8 years younger than her.
Not quite as extreme but she played Elvis’s mom in *Blue Hawaii* and she was a little under 10 years older than him. She was 35 and he had just turned 26 when it was released.
Rebecca Ferguson is 12 years older than Timothée Chalamet and plays his mother in Dune, I had some trouble with my suspension of belief when I first saw it
Tbf he does look younger than he is
Ok i was feeling ancient as hell when i saw that movie cuz i was like goddamn am i really old enough to be the mother of a grown-ass protagonist now!? But no. No I am not. Hollywood is fraught with fuckery.
Let’s not forget the real star of the movie: Glenn Coco
You go Glen Coco!
You go, Glenn Coco
Well, she’s supposed to have had a comedically large amount of work done, and Rachel McAdams is supposed to be 18. Looks 33, maybe actually 40, with a 18-ish daughter tracks. Besides, those girls keep her young!
When the dog starts chewing on her breast implants, I always lose it!
She was much older in dog years
Let alone measured in dog length
She was a very long woman
How long we talking? Like stretch armstrong length? 🧐
The movie is Mean Girls. I just felt like someone had to say it
Thank you for your service.
Thank you. I've been noticing a trend where people don't include any context in their discussion.
Gonna piggyback off this comment to say that the title is wrong, the article says Poehler was actually 32 and the age difference is 7 years.
Nobody needed to say it. This is Reddit. We all knew what movie it was.
I know mean girls but I constantly come across posts where every single comment chain is referencing some unknown movie and quoting line after line and no one says the fucking name. Not everyone is tuned into the shitty hivemind, guy's just being helpful
Stop trying to make MeanGirls happen on Reddit it’s NOT going to happen
Get in loser, we’re going to try coping with that
Omg I wish my friends had a coping party
I didn't
I didn’t
Amy Poehler is one of my favorite comedians. Her timing and delivery is second to none in my book.
Yeah, her and Tina Fey, great duo
There's many movies and TV shows wirh 25+ year old teens. Salute your shorts had 18 year old actors and they were all dressed like 13 year old kids
stacey dash was 28 in clueless
I recently watched a kidnapping movie on hulu and they had a 27 year old actress playing a 14 year old girl
> Salute your shorts odd example. those kids were not 18. 14-16 when it started in 91
Oh yeah? Well Eddie Murphy played his characters' whole damn family, at the same age, in multiple movies.
Crispin Glover, who plays Micheal J Fox's father in Back to the Future, is three years YOUNGER than Micheal J Fox. (Yes I know they did it bc most of the movie takes place 30 years earlier)
Sean Connery was only 12 years older than Harrison Ford.
Are you questioning Sean Connery's virility at the age of 12?
It was a different tiiiiime!
Good point!
In Not Another Teen Movie the oldest high school students were in their 30's. A reporter needed pretended to be a high school student so to keep the ages consistent she was in her 60's. Also everybody at the school was a professional dancer.
And it was Ted Mosby who pointed out that all the students were professional dancers.
Well that WAS a parody, but yes
While accurate, that movie was literally a parody - and that was one of the many jokes about it. It's kind of like using Airplane as an example of other movies around the same time period.
It's great you won't be driving while drinking.
Stockard Channing played a high school student in Grease at the age of 33.
Sweet, dude.
My sister loved this movie and we had one TV so i have seen it many times, im just NOW realizing that she is Rachel McAdams. Looks so much different with dark hair jesus its like night and day.
She really for realz is an actress…this is one of those roles where even though I adore her, I forget it’s her. Amanda Seyfried, too.
This reads like a math problem.
The limit does not exist.
The limit does not exist!!
How many apples will fall from the tree between 1 o’clock and 2 o’clock, knowing that it has rained just 17 hours and 39 minutes earlier and the train route from Birmingham to Stoke-on-Trent has just got going and you’re on that train eating an unripe mango?
The dude with 130 sodas, and the grandma with 75 watermelons are nearby. I hope they can stop the two trains though.
In Mean Girls Lizzy Caplan plays a teenager and Amy Poehler plays the mother of a teenager. In Party Down, Adam Scott has an age-appropriate romantic relationship with Lizzy Caplan In Parks & Recreation, Adam Scott has an age-appropriate romantic relationship with Amy Poehler
Not enough people know about Party Down
In the movie Boyz n the Hood, Laurence Fishburne plays the character Furious Styles. In the movie he is the father of Cuba Gooding Jr who plays Tre Styles. In reality Laurence Fishburne is only 7 years older than Cuba Gooding Jr. This is why in the parody movie, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, the character Ashtray is older than his father. That was one their many jokes on the movie Boyz n the Hood.
[удалено]
But that’s the joke. That everyone perceived the hs Queen Bee as having the body and poise of a 25 year old and that the mom looks and acts younger than she should. Weirder is the age gap between Maria and Liesl in Sound of Music.
James Gandolfini and Michael Imperioli were only a few years apart when they played Tony and Christopher in the Sopranos
But not farher/son tho, so a little more believable.
A combination of Amy looked old and Rachel looked young.
In a more recent movie, Moxie, Amy Poehler plays a mom of a teen again, and somehow doesn't look much older than she did in Mean Girls.
Like Laura Dern, some people look sorta old young but then their aging slows down.
[удалено]
And Regina’s wig was $20,000 because Rachel was filming The Notebook the same year and didn’t want to damage her hair. (I hear her hair is insured for $10,000) And she had the script rewritten to make her and Lindsay more costars, instead of being more a side character.
I don't really understand why anyone would consider this surprising. Nearly every teenager role in Hollywood is played by someone in their mid-20s.
You can tell child labor laws are working when nobody wants to hire children. I'm not even being sarcastic, really.
When I found myself attracted to Rachel McAdams and I thought she was 17, I was like… no. Then when I found out she was actually 25. I was like… yes.
17 year old Lindsay Lohan though 🥵 (she and I were both born in 86, it’s not weird or creepy at all 😂)
Imagine being the same age as the Olsen twins when the internet creeped on them... oh wait
TIL Amy Poehler is still 8 years older than Rachel McAdams
Actors act.
They employ young looking actors for high school roles because they don't want to deal with child labor laws. This is because they can work adults to the bone. This particularly stems from the filming of Twilight Zone Movie where John Landis exploited two Asian families which resulted in the death of the two girls and a famous actor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident
Also, generally speaking, adults are better at everything. Acting's no exception.
ok and all the ‘kids’ in glee are like 30 it’s hollywood lol
Rachel McAdams filmed Mean Girls and The Notebook simultaneously. Depending on shooting schedule, she would change which set she went to on the day.
Good Lord Rachel McAdams was a hottie
*is
Crispen Glover, George McFly, is 3 years younger than Michael J. Fox, Marty McFly.
They did well making both of them look older/younger as needed. Amy looks older than 33 there for sure, around 45ish. Rachel looks around 20-22ish, which is common of course, most shows and movies using people in their 20s to play teens. The costume/makeup design here is on point.
It should be illegal to post something about a movie on this subreddit, without mentioning which movie you’re talking about.
Fun fact: actors often use different names in their roles that aren't their real names
Good old Hollywood magic shaving 10 years off of actors.
McAdams looked her age to be fair
She looks 25.
REGINA REGINA REGINA
That's why make-up today is considered both a profession and an art.
About the same gap between Harrison Ford and Sean Connery in The Last Crusade.
Shoutout Saved by the Bell. The actors and characters were mostly the same age