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.
shareAll the actors in American Pie.
shareFunny you mention, Edward Furlong, his voice broke during filming, I feel like he could have past for 12 at some points in the movie, definitely not 10 though!
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Pork Chop Hill (1959) - most of the cast are too old to be playing young draftees.
Woody Strode!
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shareThat's true of almost all war movies.
Most wars through human history have been run by grown men and fought by borderline boys, or actual boys, and even during WWII Hollywood didn't want to show 18-20 year olds at war. They'd show actors in their 20s, 30s, 40s, or 50s, men too old to be in combat duty, because the truth of who was actually fighting would be too much for audiences.
My husband and I visited Normandy during the 55th anniversary of the invasion. It was when we visited the American cemetery and looking at the tombstones, that it hit me just how young those guys were.
shareCharlie Sheen still looked like a kid in Platoon fortunately.
shareI feel like that worked for the character and the plot though.
Chris volunteered for that whole mess, he was idealistic and probably immature and jumped headlong into a situation he was not prepared for. Chris gets winged by a 7.62 AK round in the neck during his first patrol…it’s a very alarming scene, it easily could have been a death sentence, but it only left a scar.
I doubt most of those young men even knew where the hell on a map Vietnam was when they were drafted or signed on.
Great movie, one of the best war movies ever because it portrays the arson, the casual killing, the senseless madness of it all….the material and human wreckage left behind is really sad to see.
Emma Thompson was 36 when she played Elinor Dashwood ( who was 19 in the book ) in the film Sense and Sensibility (1995).
Wait, so how old was Kate Winslet supposed to be? She was 19 when she filmed it.
shareKate Winslet played Marianne Dashwood the younger sister who was 17 in the book.
They're really trying to convince us there's a two year age difference?!
shareEmma Thompson wrote the screenplay and got the production going. And she put herself in as Elinor. Talk to the hand baby !
It at least works because people tended to look older back then and even though she certainly looked her age and not 19, she played the part very well so it's excusable in my book.
shareYes she was very good in the role so I'm not going to complain too much.
They really did have to cast an actress older than 19 for Elinor, because in the early 19th century a 19-year-old of her class would be considered a borderline old maid, but to us, a 19-year-old is too young to seriously consider marriage! So they had to cast someone who read as being of "she'd better hurry" age, thirty-ish or so. Close enough. And Thompson is such a terrific actress that I'm willing to give her all sorts of leeway.
But that's true of almost all historical romances, that the characters are played by actors who are older than written. Take "The Great Gatsby", where the main characters are played by actors in their thirties or forties... and in the book they were maybe late twenties! These are people who married young, many girls married in their teens, and like Daisy, their marriages were going south by the time they were 25.
A borderline old maid would be more considered in her late twenties, but yes at the young age of 19 a young woman would be typically rushed into marriage
shareAlan Rickman didn’t look 34 either. James Fleet seemed too old to be their slightly older half brother.
shareYes Alan Rickman was a strange choice for Colonel Brandon. A very good actor but way too old as a love interest for a 17 year old girl. I guess he was a friend of Emma Thompson. But as well as the handful of questionable casting choices there were many good ones and I thoroughly enjoyed the film overall.
I agree, and think the film is perfect despite this age issue. The actors are so talented and make up for all the age gaps with their spot on character portrayals.
shareI hate the casting of that movie. Winslet is okay. But Grant is his usual stammering self and Thompson and Rickman are way too old.
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