I really felt it was a little weird the way smell would talk to Shaun, in my opinion she was a peodophile, she must have been 18-19 and Shaun was only 12,
I mean I can understand Shaun fancying a older women but for her to full on snog him and ask him to suck her nipples, I just found that whole relationship between the two really awkward,
Any one else have any other opinions
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She has a different style to the other girls, which either puts off the other skin heads or intimidates them. She liked Shaun's affection and seems lonely and went with this boy. I get the impression she is very much mistaken/misled by his maturity/sadness.
Yeah I found it a bit odd too... I guess there is only a few years difference (he could be 12/13 and she could be 15/16) but he seemed a lot younger than her. there would be much more fuss if it was an older boy and younger girl.
share''there would be much more fuss if it was an older boy and younger girl.''
exactly and people on here are defending her, i think it was a really tasteless move of the directors to cast her, regardless of her age in real life she still looked like a young adult woman and he seemed like a child-it was just wrong, they should have cast a younger looking actress.
Why?
Is it not okay to tell a piece of fiction thattouches on this tabu subject..?
Shockingly, they are only two years apart in age and I think Turgoose was 14 during filming
shareWas Smell turning 16 on her birthday? It wasn't a huge difference, just 4 years. If Shaun were 16 and Smell 20, probably no one would notice/care. I dated a 15 year old when I was 19, and I ain't no pedophile. We met again a few years ago and he's somewhat really into me... weird, he's 29 now and I'm 32.
I do agree Smell was very different from the rest of the group. She has her own style, and was more femenine than the "skin girls". But the actors looks awkward together: he looks younger and she looks older.
After reading she was 15/16, it is more understandable to me, I thought she was turning 18, and that didn't make any sense.
Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.
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Shawn is 11 and Smell is 15, then 16 during the film. She even has her 16th birthday to confirm this fact... Still a strange thing for a 15 year old and an 11 year old half her size to be involved, but it does happen, and did happen in the 80s. It was awkward yes, but then that feeling comes from seeing this as an adult. As a 15 year old you might not necessarily see such a difference, perhaps seeing it as "we're both children in the same group".
shareI found it bizarre too and spent most of the time trying to work out Smell's actual age. I have a friend who had his first girlfriend at 14 and she was 19 so it does happen, just not as common. In This is England '88 Shaun is 18 and Smell is 22 so it evens out over time.
shareThey don't fully consummate their relationship until the final episode of This is England 86, at this point Shaun is 16 and she is 19. It is after this they begin their relationship, until Shaun cheats on her two years later!
shareSo let me get this straight - some of you think she's a paedophile because she turned 16 overnight...
... but if a 70 year-old asked a 16 year-old boy to suck her t*ts it's okay because it's legal?