Times Actors Tried to Play Characters Way Too Young/Old

[Feyrhausen]

Jul 21, 2021 14:41:55 GMT -5 chrom said:

That new awful show on TBS, has a 47 year old playing a 15 year old

That is a stylistic choice if I am not mistaken. They have done that with the Hulu show Pen15.

[Bo Rida]

The Last Kingdom has a bizarre approach to charachter ages. The best being lady Aelswith and her daughter being played by actresses of the same age. TBF she does it really well.

In the books Harry Potter's parents died at 21. Snape, Lupin, Sirrius and Wormtail should have been 31 when Harry started school. Aging them in the movies up worked out though.

[The Heenan Family]

John Mills in his 40s playing Pip in Great Expectations was pretty laughable to me.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Stargirl's a fantastic show, and they've done a great job with the casting, except for the guy playing Icicle Jr. He's 27, but that cat looks mid 30s, and he's supposed to be in high school.

[The Thread Barbi]

Jul 21, 2021 13:06:42 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

Kate Bosworth was way too young as Lois Lane in Superman Returns

Yep. Parker Posey would have been much better

[WoodStoner1]

WWE's main event scene? (hey someone had to do it)

[Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill]

The original Halloween cast. None of them look like teenagers and first time I watched it I was sure they were supposed to be college-aged.

[WoodStoner1]

Estelle Getty was nowhere as old as Sophia.

[BorneAgain]

Too Short a Season remains Trek's worst attempt at putting a young actor in old age makeup; so much that perpetual old man duck face is the thing I most consistently remember about it:

[WoodStoner1]

Now I'm not sure if this counts. But to me, the 1967 Spider-Man sounded too mature for the age Peter Parker's supposed to be.

The 1980s series and up got it right.

As an off-shoot, Olan Soule as Batman made him sound much older than he should be.

[malloc]

Steve McQueen in the Blob

[Push R Truth]

Sandra Bullock looks really well for her age (I think it's 55+ now) but she's been playing 35 year old women in movies for 20 years, and it stopped being believable a decade ago.


One that worked: Elijah Wood playing a 51 year old Frodo while looking 30 years younger sounds bad on paper, but it really worked well in the movies having all the Hobbits close in age. If I remember, book Pippen was a borderline adolescent hobbit at like 29ish. Frodo had like 10+ years on Sam. And Merry and Sam were fairly close in age.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Jul 21, 2021 19:08:58 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

One that worked: Elijah Wood playing a 51 year old Frodo while looking 30 years younger sounds bad on paper, but it really worked well in the movies having all the Hobbits close in age. If I remember, book Pippen was a borderline adolescent hobbit at like 29ish. Frodo had like 10+ years on Sam. And Merry and Sam were fairly close in age.

Which itself is quite funny, based on the real life ages of the actors at the time.

Frodo: 51, Elijah Wood: 18
Sam: 39, Sean Astin: 29
Merry: 37, Dominic Monaghan: 23
Pippin: 29, Billy Boyd: 31

In the lore, hobbits don't reach adulthood until they're 33.

[jimmyjackezekiel]

Mel Gibson playing a 29 year old William Wallace in Braveheart (Granted that was more the studio's fault than his own.)

[y4j1981]

[chrom]

Jul 21, 2021 19:21:56 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Jul 21, 2021 19:08:58 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

One that worked: Elijah Wood playing a 51 year old Frodo while looking 30 years younger sounds bad on paper, but it really worked well in the movies having all the Hobbits close in age. If I remember, book Pippen was a borderline adolescent hobbit at like 29ish. Frodo had like 10+ years on Sam. And Merry and Sam were fairly close in age.

Which itself is quite funny, based on the real life ages of the actors at the time.

Frodo: 51, Elijah Wood: 18
Sam: 39, Sean Astin: 29
Merry: 37, Dominic Monaghan: 23
Pippin: 29, Billy Boyd: 31

In the lore, hobbits don't reach adulthood until they're 33.

Plus in the movies the 17 year timeskip never happened

[Mozenrath]

Jul 21, 2021 16:44:19 GMT -5 WoodStoner1 said:

Estelle Getty was nowhere as old as Sophia.

She wasn't, but it sort of worked pre-HD. Like, on a CRT, I'm sure it looked believable since some old people are just tiny as hell.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Jul 21, 2021 23:22:33 GMT -5 chrom said:

Jul 21, 2021 19:21:56 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Which itself is quite funny, based on the real life ages of the actors at the time.

Frodo: 51, Elijah Wood: 18
Sam: 39, Sean Astin: 29
Merry: 37, Dominic Monaghan: 23
Pippin: 29, Billy Boyd: 31

In the lore, hobbits don't reach adulthood until they're 33.

Plus in the movies the 17 year timeskip never happened

Nor the fact that after Gandalf and Frodo establish that he has the One Ring Frodo doesn't leave the Shire for another six months. Urgency is certainly not something you can say is present in those early chapters of the book.

[chrom]

Jul 21, 2021 23:46:10 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Jul 21, 2021 23:22:33 GMT -5 chrom said:

Plus in the movies the 17 year timeskip never happened

Nor the fact that after Gandalf and Frodo establish that he has the One Ring Frodo doesn't leave the Shire for another six months. Urgency is certainly not something you can say is present in those early chapters of the book.

Nazgul must've been traveling by snails to the Shire

[G✇JI☈A]

Remember seeing a review for that old Babe Ruth biopic they made when the real Babe was on death’s door.

And at one point the the middle aged actor they portrayed him also played Ruth as a 13 year old.. it was quite something