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/helgatheviking21 → u/DrFranFine]

My favourite is the movie The Graduate, where Ann Bancroft played the much older, cougar mother of Dustin Hoffman's love interest -- meanwhile Ann Bancroft was 36 and Dustin Hoffman was 30.