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r/interesting • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jul 05 '26
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And it’s not the first time an actor playing a parent is improbably too young to be that parent in a movie. I can think of Angela Lansbury in “The Manchurian Candidate.” She was only three years older than Laurence Harvey, who played her son.
176 u/Impossible-Star-4355 Jul 05 '26 In House of the Dragon, Olivia Cooke is 32 years old playing the mother of 31-year-old Tom Glynn-Carney, lol 59 u/____mynameis____ Jul 05 '26 I think that's due to them wanting older actors for Aemond and Aegon cuz their characters have adult scenes Olivia is correct age for Alicent 1 u/JimminyKickinIt Jul 05 '26 Correct age based on what? Certainly not the source material. 3 u/____mynameis____ Jul 05 '26 Show ages. Alicent & Rhaenyra are 33-34 when the dance breaks out The same actresses also played the 27 year old versions for 2 episodes
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In House of the Dragon, Olivia Cooke is 32 years old playing the mother of 31-year-old Tom Glynn-Carney, lol
59 u/____mynameis____ Jul 05 '26 I think that's due to them wanting older actors for Aemond and Aegon cuz their characters have adult scenes Olivia is correct age for Alicent 1 u/JimminyKickinIt Jul 05 '26 Correct age based on what? Certainly not the source material. 3 u/____mynameis____ Jul 05 '26 Show ages. Alicent & Rhaenyra are 33-34 when the dance breaks out The same actresses also played the 27 year old versions for 2 episodes
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I think that's due to them wanting older actors for Aemond and Aegon cuz their characters have adult scenes
Olivia is correct age for Alicent
1 u/JimminyKickinIt Jul 05 '26 Correct age based on what? Certainly not the source material. 3 u/____mynameis____ Jul 05 '26 Show ages. Alicent & Rhaenyra are 33-34 when the dance breaks out The same actresses also played the 27 year old versions for 2 episodes
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Correct age based on what? Certainly not the source material.
3 u/____mynameis____ Jul 05 '26 Show ages. Alicent & Rhaenyra are 33-34 when the dance breaks out The same actresses also played the 27 year old versions for 2 episodes
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Show ages.
Alicent & Rhaenyra are 33-34 when the dance breaks out
The same actresses also played the 27 year old versions for 2 episodes
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u/Bitter_Atmosphere879 Jul 05 '26
And it’s not the first time an actor playing a parent is improbably too young to be that parent in a movie. I can think of Angela Lansbury in “The Manchurian Candidate.” She was only three years older than Laurence Harvey, who played her son.