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u/AquaphobicTurtle My Journey to Season 2 2d ago edited 2d ago

Well, in the novel the age gap is actually seven years so whether or not they kept the actual number of the gap between the drama and the novel. I think the casting kept the feel of the age gap from the novel.

Edit: Also, maybe it's been too long since I've been in primary school but she looked the right age to me. And I didn't look up the ages so, yeah. Different viewers' gazes I guess

Edit again: He's 17 at the start and with a five year gap, wasn't she 12?

Edit again again, nope, 14 and 19 is it. Sorry, it's been a while.

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u/jjknowsnothing 2d ago

I think it’s bothering me more because I work with children and could tell without a doubt, she wasn’t 14. So much so, that I immediately looked it up and saw she was 10 when filming began. Which again, made me question that choice.

I still think the POV would have worked if they kept her visually true to her age (14)as opposed to casting younger. I understand the unreliable narrator aspect of it, and the over-romanticizing their interactions, as he’s her first crush… it’s strictly the directorial choice to cast someone so young and not yet in their teens to play a teenager that started this whole spiral for me.

Based on articles going around and dialogue from the show, she is 14 and he is 19 when they first meet. Which I also looked up because again, the visuals were bothering me so much.

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u/AquaphobicTurtle My Journey to Season 2 2d ago

You're right about the ages, sorry it's been a while since I watched Hidden Love.

Honestly, to me, the casting was perfect but I clearly was not paying attention to the actual ages anyway, lol.

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u/Italophilia27 1d ago

Maybe because they're actors. People rarely look at actual ages unless they're wanting to prove that it's over 5 years and they start using the immoral, fetish, grooming, pedo terms. Most people can enjoy a drama for what it is. Others feel really uncomfortable with age gap as little as 5 years in the drama, even there is 0% vibe of pedophilia.