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What's the worst case of "the actor is playing way older than their character is"?


For me it's "Terminator 2". Edward Furlong was 14 when he played John Connor and his character is 10. Throughout the movie, there isn't a single moment where I felt he was 10 years old.

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In the show Yellowstone most of the cast are older than their characters. It becomes confusing and affects the understanding of the show. In particular Kelly Reilly who is 45 but looks 55 plays a character who is supposed to be mid 30's but behaves like a 12 year old.

Kevin Costner also stars and is playing a character who is mid 50's but looks far older.

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Kelly looks 35 in this. She's perfect.

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Kevin Spacey in Beyond the Sea
He was 44 when he did the movie but looked older. Bobby Darin was only 37 when he died.

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14 is his favourite age, if you know what I mean.

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The whole Happy Days cast.

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MOSTLY JUST THE FONZ THOUGH.

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Ron Howard, Donny Most and Anson Williams were all in their twenties playing 14 - 16 year old at the beginning of the series. By the time the series ended Potsie was the same age as Williams really was when he started the series.

I'm sure a lot of that was due to the child labor laws and insurance expenses.

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Peter Bark in Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (1981)?

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I don't know. Never seen it

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you better get on it then

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Find it. Watch it. They donโ€™t make em like this anymore.

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A top candidate for creepiest โ€˜kidโ€™ in a horror movie ever lol

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โ€œMamma, this cloth smells like deathโ€

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โ€˜Whatโ€™s wrong? Iโ€™m your son.โ€™
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Shogun, if you know that quote then I know youโ€™ll appreciate this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZDpwHqaDFI

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Carey Mulligan in The Great Gatsby (2013)

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Adam West was the voice actor in the Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders cartoon. You can clearly hear that the bachelor Bruce Wayne (and Batman) has an elderly vibrating voice which totally bordering on parody.

Surprisingly, Robin's voice sounds ridiculously spot on as if Burt Ward never aged a day since 1966.

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Best use of a Spoiler blocker ever, lol.

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Too funny๐Ÿ˜
I bet he meant to do that!

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I remember I used a Spoiler block on the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang board about how the car flew, you know, just in case.

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This would be polite on The Titanic board as well.

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Well of course.

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It would really spoil the ending to tell everyone the ship starts flying!

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The only problem I have is that the plank of wood definitely had room for two - Bitch!

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Everyone thought so and The Myth Busters proved it could have workedโ€ฆDammit Rose you selfish plank-hog!

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Bee-yatch!

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Honestly, her boobs could have them both afloat all night๐Ÿ…๐Ÿ…

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I saw that one. I was a little disappointed with it, but I appreciate you covering the spoiler.

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Yeah. I understand what they were trying to do by hiring the original cast, but they're way, way too late.

I watched the movie with my son and we constantly made fun of granpa Bruce. We kept repeating the same joke over and over even a few days or a week later. It was a great bonding moment.

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Poor old Humphrey Bogart in 'Sabrina' (1954) was brought in at the last minute to replace Cary Grant who pulled out of the film. Bogart looking not too well ( he died three years later ) at 54 played the other romantic interest for the 25 year old Audrey Hepburn. William Holden at 36 was Audrey's other man.

Cary Grant was only four years Bogart's junior but looked decades younger.


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Age is one thing, but Cary Grant was more charismatic too.

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Well Bogart had a different kind of charisma in 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'The Big Sleep' for example when he was younger. Bogart was edgier and more dangerous. But Cary Grant was a better choice for romantic roles for sure.

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Bogart was both too old and miscast. As Quasimodo says, he was charismatic in the right parts, but in SABRINA, he just seems like he wants to be anywhere else. From what I know of the production, he took the part very reluctantly and felt his fellow cast members left him out of their little circle.

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I recently decided that Cary Grant should have been cast in "Rear Window" instead of James Stewart. He was also four years older than Stewart, but since he was fit, energetic, charming, and sexy, he wouldn't have seemed to be a mismatch with the dazzling young Grace Kelly.

Grant was the one actor who could really carry off age-difference relationships, and kept getting offered romantic roles until his hair was gray and even HE thought that it was ridiculous to pair him with a young woman.

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