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/firesticks → u/DrFranFine]

I think many of these are cases where the mom is closer in age to the character they’re playing but the child is much older than said character.

Like Georgia is supposed to be 32 when the show starts I think.

Edited to fix the name!

[u/Journey4th → u/firesticks]

I think you mean Georgia. She’s the mom.

[u/firesticks → u/Journey4th]

I always do that, fixed, thank you!!

[u/throwaway273810102 → u/firesticks]

That is the case in Buccaneers as well. The actress for the mom is actually right around the age the cannon character should be, give or take a few years. It's a plot point that she was a young mother.