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Ali Mcgraw vs Jayne Seymour arguement---people need to do some math


One of the biggest complaints has been the fact that Ali Mcgraw was 45 when filming the mini series--she was 45 when it aired==she was 43 when they filmed it.(winds of war). jayne was 36/37 when she filmed her war and rememberance seens--there is only 6 years in age difference for when they filmed their seens. Seymour is a better actress and that should be the basis of the arguements--age wise--there was not that much of difference between the two actress when they each filmed their roles.

Natalie Jestrow was described as being 26-28 at the time of the books taking place.--Both actress' were clearly older then the role

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If anyone sees eye to eye with Dan Curtis, it's not that Ali MacGraw was too old when Winds of War was filmed, it's that she would have been five years older than that when filming War and Remembrance, and that would have been too old for the role.

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