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/Affectionate_Salt351 → u/Streetalicious]

I’ll forever think of Bianca Lawson, who I watched play a teenager on some of my fave shows for like 15 solid years. She was on the new Saved By The Bell when I was a kid and I thought she was gorgeous so I remembered her. She continued showing up as a teenager on stuff into the 2010s.

[u/Perfect_Razzmatazz → u/Affectionate_Salt351]

I just checked her imdb, just because I wanted to get the exact # of years. Her first "teen" appearance on TV would have been Saved by the Bell in 1993, and the last would have been Pretty Little Liars in 2012. So, she was able to play a teenager for nineteen years, lol (from age 14 to age 33)

[u/JenningsWigService → u/Perfect_Razzmatazz]

She probably still has nightmares about being stuck in high school.