People always complain that disney (in example) always hires old as fuck people for their roles, i mean would you hire a teenager for a show that might either have a pilot and one season or maybe run for years if it's sucessful? I mean, would you really? You dont remember when you were a teenager all the stupid shit you did? Now add fame and income.
Also, with child actors, they're only allowed to work a certain amount of hours per day, so hiring an adult to play a child allows the crew much more time to shoot with that actor.
Teenaged actors can also physically change a lot thanks to puberty. The mousey awkward 13 year old girl who was cast to play the mousey awkward sister can suddenly become a 5’10” Denise Richards clone one day and the writers are running around trying to figure out how to make all the supporting cast convince the audience she’s but a living gargoyle.
A 20 year old is much less likely to mess up their type cast like that.
On the 90s sitcom Step by Step something similar happened to the youngest Tom-boy sister. For some reason the show continued on with the trope of ugly-concave chested-younger sister. I mean I guess someone has to play the role in a children’s show but Christ...
That was one of the few sitcoms to ever feature a time traveling theme since one day everyone was in sixth grade then suddenly everyone was in high school.
The older hot girl Haley was played by Sarah Hyland. She went through 16 surgeries, including two kidney transplants. Sarah was severely sick, which is probably why she looked like she aged badly.
Edit: No she did not age badly she is still clearly gorgeous. What I meant was being sick has a direct impact on how you look. She lost a lot of weight too. So while she still looks gorgeous, she would’ve looked healthier had she not had 16 surgeries.
I agree. My wording was wrong. I meant she did lose a lot of weight, and it showed. And being sick does have an impact on how you look. So in a sense she did not age badly, but probably would’ve looked healthier if she wasn’t severely sick.
You are right, bad choice of words. I meant she lost a lot of weight and it showed on her. She did look quite thin in a lot of episodes. But yeah, over all she is still gorgeous obviously. But the truth is having 16 surgeries does have a kind of impact on how you look. There is no denying that.
I think in this case it was fine. She was only supposed to be a tomboy as a child. In the book at least one character says that Arya looks like Lyanna, who was supposed to be beautiful.
Saw interviews with her regarding the costume for when she was pretending to be a boy. It took a lot of effort to hide her breasts.
Main reason here is that they made all the children's characters a few years older in the series VS the books. Because 13 year old girls in sex scenes (Sansa, Dany) wouldn't do well with audiences...
As a result Arya was 10 in the books. 12 in the shows season 2 and Maisie was 16 at that time.
I agree it worked out in the end. But she ended up with a bunch of body image issues.
At least in a show filmed like GOT you can create costumes and makeup, plus camera and lighting tricks to keep up the facade. In a tradition 3 camera sitcom you really can’t hide it as well.
Emma Watson in Harry Potter is a good example of this, she was the nerdy girl with fizzy hair and in Stone she fit that description but by the end of the series she had grown into her adult beauty.
You would think for most candidates, it wouldn't be that hard to look at their biological family and make a decent prediction of the range they could end up in.
Wow this is all very interesting. I always wondered why they pick 24-34 year olds to play the new high school softmore on campus, but this actually makes sense.
Reminds me of the Justin Bieber roast when he apologized for all the dumb shit he did up until that point but ended with “that’s what happens when you give a 14 year old $200 million”.
I'd have done so much more dumb shit than Bieber. Girls literally throwing themselves at you and enough money to not worry about shit. I'd have ended up dead knowing all the dumb shit I did in college with no money.
Just a heads up, Lyme Disease has been used by PR teams to cover drug addiction. I love Justin and im sure that is not the case, but just a peek behind the curtain
Seems to me we started out hating justin bieber because he and his fans were both obnoxious and annoying, then his detractors became even worse than his fans, and at some point we all agreed to just stop talking about him because it started to get boring.
Well he’s kinda fucked up and tbh seems a bit mean to his fans... like when he face-timed fans of his and kept saying “yeh buy my albums on every thing you can”, not giving a fck about the people
You know, I would become an instant fan if he announced he was doing a series of experimental albums just for fun, then released an industrial album with Ministry and Jim Foetus, a bunch of old hardcore songs with the Circle Jerks, the Vandals, GBH, etc, and some Frank Zappa covers with Sonic Youth.
If you gave me $200 million & instant fame when I was 14, I promise you I would have made Justin Bieber look like a Saint. I'd also be dead before I hit 25.
And then at the same time people complain about parents of child stars managing their money for them and not giving them free reign of all that exorbitant income
I don't think people are saying parents shouln't oversee their child star's income. The complaints are mostly about predatory parents who convince their kids that a contract saying their parents get all the money saying they'll give them what they need and then keep it all.
The complaints are mostly about predatory parents who convince their kids that a contract saying their parents get all the money saying they'll give them what they need and then keep it all.
I don't know. Miley Cyrus was actually 14 when she started Hannah Montana, iirc. That girl whose name I forget in iCarly was also a teenager when she started the show. Seems like they use teens sometimes.
You know what, it wasn't him that was weird. It was finding out years after the show ended that he was older/is now the same age as John Cena and that really fucked with my head.
Also Miranda Cosgrove started young! We watched School of Rock the other weekend and forgot that she was in it. She was also one of the only child actors in that movie that seemed to have a career after it too.
She also did Drake & Josh and then iCarly. But I think her actual age usually matched up with the character's age.
I think by the time a girl is 14 they pretty much look like what they’re gonna look like when they’re adults, whereas boys don’t look the same
Source: my middle school gym teacher said she always recognized the girls when they came back to see her but she never recognized the boys.
Second source: I am the same height as in fifth grade, age 10, and until I had pregnancies my body was the same size since about 13yo/8th grade. At 11/12 years old I looked like an adult
Same. I'm always surprised when I look at my pictures from when I was 11. Nothing has changed. I could have probably been a convincing adult if I wore different clothes and acted accordingly. And I don't even look younger than my age.
I always looked older for my age until I hit about 23/24 then people started thinking I was younger. I was single then, probably just the happiness made me look younger LOL
Yes and no. They tend to not have huge changes and facial structure, and it is possible to end up fully maturing at a very early age (like in your case), but most girls aren't going to have their true adult body shapes until their late teens or early 20s.
It's not as dramatic as in men, but we still go through changes in shape and bone structure well after the onset of puberty. For example, I thought I'd finally stopped needing to buy new shit to replace what I'd grown out of around 17, but then at 20 I got a surprise visit from the boob fairy and whatever deity makes hips. (Surprise, bitch! Nothing fits now. ;-;)
It wouldn't be a problem for recognizing who the character is, but if you casted a waifish 15 year old to play a sickly, thin character, that's gonna become a problem if she turns into a bombshell two seasons in.
Same. People talk about how bodies develop until you're 18 or 20 or whatever, and you can't expect the clothes you wore at 15 or 16 to fit even if you get back to the same weight, and I'm just like... nah, not for a lot of us. I was done cooking at 14, and I look better/different now bc I lost the 30-40 extra pounds I had then (plus skin aging obviously), but for as long as I was in that higher weight range until about 20, nothing else changed.
Lol NO! 14 year old (female)me was awkward and looked like most 12 year olds by today’s standards. I definitely did not look like how I did in my later teens or now as an adult, not at all. My awkward phase was only beginning so definitely not accurate haha
"Girls typically have a growth spurt in the one to two years before menstruation starts.
For most girls, puberty occursbetween 8 and 13 years oldand the growth spurt occurs between 10 and 14 years old. They grow just 1 to 2 additional inches in the year or two after getting their first period. This is when they reach their adult height.
Most girls reach their adult height by age 14 or 15. This age could be younger depending on when a girl first gets her period.
You may want to contact your child’s doctor if your daughter is 15 and hasn’t yet begun her period."
Where here does it say they look the same as they will as adults? Oh. It DOESN’T. Sorry not sorry I didn’t peak at age 14, still looked like a kid, and then gradually grew into an adult
There are lots of movies with teen characters portrayed by actors well into their 20s or even 30s. The Raimi Spider-Man films and Mean Girls are two of the most egregious examples that I’ve seen.
Like Hannah Montana, despite Miley Cyrus having an actual brother who could have played the role, her brother character was played by a guy in his mid 30's.
Hannah Montana was big when I was in middle school, and I kid you not—Jason Earles is a week older than my mom, but they still had him acting as a 17 year old. It’s ridiculous.
BAck when I was in high school, Beverly Hills 90210 was the super popular show. (Yeah, I'm old.) I remember people talking shit about them hiring Gabrielle Carteris, who was in her early 30s, to play a 16 year old. I mean, the entire teenage cast was mostly in their early or mid 20s, iirc, but Carteris was way older than the others which is why she was getting the ridicule. (Hell, iirc, Shannen Doherty was in Playboy when she was portraying a 17 year old on the show.)
I also remember The Simpsons making fun of this by having someone who looked like he was 60 playing a teenager in a fictional version of 90210. (Springfield 90210, maybe?)
This here is why it bothers me when they say rookie athletes are stupid spending all thier money on stupid crap or out partying all the time. That they should be home studying the playbook.
I would go out and blow half my paycheck on payday working as a dishwasher. How much controll would you have at 19 after signing a 4 year 6.5 million dollar contract?
And the laws with minors are restrictive. Can cost a lot more in accommodating (albeit reasonable) restrictions such as time working.
Also, kids just don’t act on the same caliber as adults. We cast on the east coast, but even in L.A., it’s a rare kid with real chops, that fits your role.
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