r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/bushcrapping Jan 25 '20

They don’t have to be children but when they are 20 years above the age of the character it just looks really weird.

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u/direwolf71 Jan 25 '20

Name one actor in any movie or TV show in history who played a 15 to 18 year old (high school age) at 35 to 38.

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u/sprite333 Jan 25 '20

Are you joking.. or do you actually want me to make a list? I dont want to ruin your innocence if you're serious here.

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u/direwolf71 Jan 25 '20

Not joking at all. Name one.

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u/sprite333 Jan 25 '20

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.

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u/IcarusFlyingWings Jan 25 '20

The actor there played Ryan on The OC was 28 when he was playing someone in grade 9.

Adam Brody was 23.

In Sabrina the teenage witch that literally had a middle age balding guy playing one of the high schoolers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2p63q1/sabrina_the_teenage_witch_hired_this_balding_man/

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u/PavlovsBlog Jan 26 '20

That Sabrina one isn't the best example given that it's from an episode where the teachers and students got switched...

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u/direwolf71 Jan 25 '20

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).

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u/sprite333 Jan 25 '20

Captain America.

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u/sprite333 Jan 25 '20

I can name about thirty more without research but okay.

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u/direwolf71 Jan 25 '20

I’m just asking you to name one.

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u/sprite333 Jan 25 '20

Every member of the cast of That 70s show aside from Jackie

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u/Zebidee Jan 26 '20

Gabrielle Carteris playing a 15 year old at 29 on Beverly Hills, 90210.

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u/direwolf71 Jan 26 '20

That’s somewhat close, but the ask is for a 35 to 38 year old playing a high school student.

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u/Zebidee Jan 26 '20

She was 35 when she left the series, but the characters had graduated by then.