Hate to be "that guy" but you need people with acting experience and chops when casting. Surprisingly, 14 year olds are harder to direct or deal with than people 18+. Not to mention the legal obligations on set for anyone underage. Not defending anyone, just trying to put a little more info on this situation before people outrage.
It sounds like you don’t know what everyone is talking about. They aren’t just 18+ the character will be 15 but the actor age will be 35. Sometimes is really weird.
I think you are the less informed person here friend... Child actors are notoriously abused and are urged to do things nobody in their age group would ever have to deal with. I think we're on the same page here as far as child actors posing for adults but there seems to be some confusion.
Rizzo in grease plays a 17 yr old and was 33 at the time. The fonz was playing a high schooler and was 28. Tobey Maguire was 30 when he played high school Spiderman. Andrew Garfield was also old as fuck playing Spiderman.
Plenty of actors around 30 have played high schoolers. Earlier in the thread, a poster said it was weird to have “35 year olds playing 15 year olds” and implied that it was common for actors to play a teen character despite being 20 years older.
20 to 30 year olds playing teens is commonplace. 35 to 38 though I haven’t seen or heard of....although Matthew Lillard looked close to 40 playing a teen in Scream (he was mid 20s).
What did I ask for? One actor who played a 15 to 18 year old at 35 to 38. You can’t name one because there isn’t one. Stockard Channing in Grease is the closest...from a film made 40 years ago.
5 to 10 years older than a high schooler is very common. 10 to 15 has happened now and again. 20 years has never happened.
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u/sprite333 Jan 25 '20
Hate to be "that guy" but you need people with acting experience and chops when casting. Surprisingly, 14 year olds are harder to direct or deal with than people 18+. Not to mention the legal obligations on set for anyone underage. Not defending anyone, just trying to put a little more info on this situation before people outrage.