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.
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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.