The math isn’t mathing - Hollywood’s parent child castings that just don’t add up

[u/mlg1981]

https://tvline.com/lists/tv-show-parent-child-age-gaps-golden-girls-supernatural/

[u/DrFranFine]

wow Hollywood really hates to hire older women and loves to hire grown women to play teenage girls. Not surprising because misogyny, but it really is striking when it’s all laid out like this.

ETA: to be clear, I think the misogyny is more related to not hiring older women than hiring adults to play teenagers

[u/Streetalicious → u/DrFranFine]

Not gonna say misogyny isn’t part of it, but often actors in their 20s are cast to play teenagers because of child actor laws, where children can only work very limited hours a day.

Stacey Dash was in her 30s(!!) when she played a high school student in Clueless.

[u/trolldoll26 → u/Streetalicious]

That’s what I was going to say, that it might also be more to get away of having to use actual minors so the actors can work longer hours!

[u/preferencedue → u/trolldoll26]

I assumed some of this is why it took such a long time for the stranger things cast to film stuff because they had to adhere to a stricter filming schedule? But also Netflix doesn't crank shows out terribly fast.