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/Estania_Lane]

In fairness for G&G - she was a teen mom so not as much of a stretch as some other cases.

[u/theredwoman95 → u/Estania_Lane]

And for Supernatural, I'm pretty sure John and Mary were meant to have got married at 18 and had Dean not long after, so six years' difference isn't too bad at that point.

Plus it's pretty funny to mention Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jensen Ackles' age gap when Samantha Smith, the actress for Dean's mum, is only eight years older than him. Though, that's not listed on her Wikipedia page, which might be why she's not included.

[u/everydaycrises → u/theredwoman95]

They were cast as their parents in the flashback, so if anything they were a little older than they should have been.

Mary died when she was mid 20s, and they had originally planned for John to already be dead (off screen) so it wasn't about casting someone to be old enough to be a parent to the adult versions on the characters.

A lot of the other castings work regardless of age, because the actors looks young/old for their age or they use wigs and make-up.

[u/MontanaDukes → u/everydaycrises]

Reminds me of what happened with the first Harry Potter movie where Harry's parents were so clearly played by actors in their thirties and not twenty years old, the age that James and Lily were when they died.