I found it unrealistic that Glenn Close played Garp's mother, because they seemed approximately the same age. So I came here on IMDb to check, and sure enough, the age difference between Glenn Close and Robin Williams is only 4 years.
Why would the filmmakers do that? Was it intentional, e.g. to show that Jenny Fields got her child when she was very young, or is it simply bad casting?
How is a 60-year-old supposed to pass for the mother of a baby? Though it's true Williams was too old, middle-aged man playing a high schooler, WTF, they should have cast someone 10-15 years younger, his high school sweetheart also looks like an old lady
shareYou are right. It wasn't Close who was too young, but Williams who was too old for his part.
Does anybody know why they chose to have a 30 year old actor play a highschool student?
The characters Jenny, Garp and Helen all aged at least 30 years over the course of the film, so they cast three actors who could play the parts instead of casting a new actor for every decade, it's quite common in filmmaking. I think they all did well, especially Glenn Close.
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