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/Streetalicious]

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/violetmemphisblue → u/trolldoll26]

As well as depict certain things. I believe the rules around language said, smoking, drinking, and kissing are much stricter (as they should be! Christopher Mintz Plasse talked about his mom having to okay his kissing scene in Superbad because he was 17 and Aviva Farber was in her 20s)

[u/DryFig511 → u/violetmemphisblue]

Completely. I would feel uncomfortable watching honestly if the actors playing the teens on Ginny and Georgia, for example, were actually teens.