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High school students in live-action films and shows very often look older than their real-life counterparts for a very good reason: they are often played by actors who are old enough to have finished high school. This practice has been around since at least the 1920s (when Hollywood was new). As detailed on the Analysis page, Dawson casting is done out of practicality. If a show or movie carries a greater focus on the adults rather than on the children or teenagers or if it is primarily a teen show, then the casting will try for actual child or teen actors. This can sometimes result in a paradoxical effect: teens that look more like actual teens (either with real teenage actors or in animation) are described as looking "too young" (see Reality Is Unrealistic). Conversely, actors in their early-to-mid-twenties, especially those who make their name in these kinds of shows, often have difficulty being taken seriously playing characters their own age. Very specific actors can pull it off, usually attributing it to the character not looking their actual age. In other cases, some stories work with this because a key plot point may be the character is trying to pass themselves off as older than they really are. But with no such luck Hollywood will get by with appropriate clothing, hairstyles, makeup and mannerisms. This trope also exists due to the use of sex scenes and fanservice in TV shows and movies featuring teen characters. It's a lot less troubling and embarrassing (not to mention legal) to ask a legally adult actor to get naked and film a sex scene rather than ask a minor to do the same. One of the only example of movies breaking this trope was American Beauty: the film has a scene with actress Thora Birch topless. Since she was 17 years old at the time she made the film and thus classified as a minor in the United States, her parents had to approve her brief topless scene in the movie, and they and child labor representatives were on the set for the shooting of it. Now you can imagine why producers would rather cast adult actors and save themselves all this trouble. Dawson casting tends to work better with females than with males with a few exceptions. Generally, girls can keep a very similar facial structure and vocal range even after going through puberty, whereas boys tend to have a significantly deepened voice, more defined musculature, and some faintly visible stubble marks even if thoroughly shaved. Therefore, it's much easier for an actress in her 20's to pass herself off as a teenager than for a male actor that age to do so. For example, look at 18-year-old Austin St. John, playing a high school freshman on Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. It does not look right. Now look at 22-year-old Amy Jo Johnson, playing a high school freshman on the same show. The difference between the actress's age and the character's age is not as obvious here.◊ Named for Dawson's Creek, which was notorious for it—James Van Der Beek (21), Katie Holmes (20), and Joshua Jackson (21) playing high school sophomores. Seventeen-year-old Michelle Williams was the only one still high school aged. In season two, the new main character Jack was 16, and actor Kerr Smith was 26. While maybe not the worst case example (Jack aside), it is a joke that has filtered into the cultural mindset regarding the show. By and large this trope requires some research; you can't know for certain that an actor/actress was a certain age when they played a certain role unless you scour around Wikipedia or IMDb. It's also worth noting that actors, like all jobseekers, have a legal right to not reveal their age unless they're under eighteen.note Actors will instead have a 'Playing Age' listing the youngest and oldest ages they're able to pass as. And there's nothing stopping them from lying (Lisanne Falk was 23 when she starred in Heathers but lied that she was 19 and they never found out and Riley Weston, actress and writer for Felicity, who claimed she was 19 despite being 32). Also consider that production time may vary greatly from release of the movie or airing of the episode. The actors are of course younger during filming. Timeline issues sometimes make this more apparent, as 5 seasons of a TV show may only cover one year within the context of the story, making an actor who didn't qualify previously a clear example over time. Consider also that the exact age of the character may also be in question (a generic "high schooler" is usually anywhere from 14 to 18). In the case of voice acting that field has nothing to do with appearance and everything to do with vocal performance, as such only notable aversions are mentioned (consider what the point would be to list examples of Race Lift in voice acting). This is also part of why we have Crossdressing Voices. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with this trope; all forms of entertainment are about illusion, with acting primarily being about acting real under imaginary circumstances. What matters is if you believe in the character. At the same time this is not about age discrepancies, just being three or four years older doesn't necessarily mean the production is "trying to pull a fast one" on the audience. If anything finding a 19-year-old to play a 17-year-old is well ahead of the curve. Compare Age Lift, Age-Inappropriate Dress, Same Voice Their Entire Life, and Three-Month-Old Newborn. Contrast Hollywood Old, Underage Casting, and Children Voicing Children. See also Artistic Age for an intentional drawn equivalent. Cross-Dressing Voices is more-or-less the animated version of this trope, as partially explained above. Also used to avert a Stage Mom situation. |
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Zigzagged in the 2019 premiere of Mrs. Doubtfire: The Musical, in which 15 year old Lydia Hillard was played by 20 year old Analise Scarpaci, though actual child actors played her younger siblings and she had a 16 year old understudy. | |
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Likewise, Cio-Cio San in Madame Butterfly is supposed to be fifteen in Act I and eighteen in the later acts. But considering the difficulty of her role, she requires a master performer with a fully developed voice, so she (and many other opera ingenues) are Dawson Cast. | |
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Lucas Cruikshank was 14 when he started playing six-year-old Fred Figglehorn. Justified as he created the character to be performed by himself. | |
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Channel Awesome: 20-something Bhargav playing Ma-Ti, who is somewhere around 14. He said he was fourteen when he woke up to see MarzGurl and The Nostalgia Chick in bed with him. Lindsay and Doug both play teenage versions of their characters in videos when are in their late twenties/early thirties. Because she's short and they have clothes that will hide her bust, Tamara often plays kids in Critic skits. |
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Bleak Expectations: The first series has the three main characters as supposed teenagers, played by actors in their thirties. Later series avoid this, as there are successive Time Skips, but series 3 manages to take it to ludicrous (and at this point, definitely intentional) extremes by having Anthony Head playing his character in flashbacks to when he was a child. | |
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Lampshaded in Cromartie High School, where most of the male students look like they're in their early 30s, including one who is blatantly just a ~40-year-old Freddie Mercury. | |
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This was the initial reason that some viewers suspected lonelygirl15 to be a hoax. The Real Life implications of this are apparent in an episode of MaxterBexter, in which former lonelygirl15 actors Becki Gregoski and Maxwell Glick complain about needing to show ID before they would be served alcohol, even though Maxwell Glick was 29 at the time. | |
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The Last of Us 14-year old Ellie is voiced by 30-year old Ashley Johnson. Additionally, 16-year old Riley is voiced by 32-year old Yaani King (and they both sound it, especially the latter). | |
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Looney Tunes: Many children characters in the original cartoons were voiced by adults. A notable example is Tweety, voiced by Mel Blanc with his voiced pitch-shifted to sound more childlike. In the early days, many young boys were voiced by women, as mentioned above. And Dick Beals, who had a hormonal condition that prevented his voice from deepening during adolescence (not unlike Gary Coleman), voiced Ralph Phillips. | |
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In Atop the Fourth Wall's "Leaves of Grass" review, Linkara ends up commenting on how it's a comic book, yet the teenage villain in the B-plot still looks like he's still been cast with a 30-year-old actor. | |
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In Pokémon Live!, Ash and friends are pre-teens. Their actors... aren't. Kind of inevitable, really. | |
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Hamlet is a tough call. According to the play, he just interrupted his studies at Wittenberg, so he's a university student. But elsewhere, the play implies he might be in his thirties. The role of "Hamlet" has acquired a reputation as being sort of the "crown jewel" of an actor's career, so you'll find men cast as Hamlet when they're in their thirties or older, usually at the height of their fame. It depends on the director's interpretation and casting choices. | |
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In the novel of Les Misérables, Fantine only reaches her mid 20s, while grown-up Cosette and Éponine are only about 16 or 17. In the musical, Cosette and Éponine tend to be played by actresses in their 20s, while Fantine's actresses tend to be in their 30s or older. This is even the case in the 2012 film version, with 30-year-old Anne Hathaway as Fantine, 27-year-old Amanda Seyfried as Cosette and 22-year-old Samantha Barks as Éponine. | |
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In the original runnote although the third actor in the role and film version of 1776, 26-year-old Edward Rutledge was played by then-forties John Cullum. There's even a line in the play about how Rutledge is the youngest man in Congress. But who cares about that when you've got Cullum's beautiful soaring baritone? | |
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20-something Bhargav playing Ma-Ti, who is somewhere around 14. He said he was fourteen when he woke up to see MarzGurl and The Nostalgia Chick in bed with him. | |
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Zigzagged in the music video for Ninja Sex Party's "Danny Don't You Know"; young Danny is primarily played by the then-16 Finn Wolfhard (with adult Danny taking the role briefly to represent a sudden growth spurt), the student that bullies him is played by the then-29 Nathan Sharp, and the then-43 Brian Wecht plays Ninja Brian in both the high school scenes and the present scenes. | |
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Animaniacs: While Yakko, Wakko, and Dot are in their pre-teen years in the '90s series, they are in their teenage years in the 2020 reboot. Tress MacNeille (who voices Dot, the youngest at 13 years old) is five years older than Rob Paulsen (who voices Yakko, the eldest) and twelve years older than Jess Harnell (who voices Wakko, the middle child). | |
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On the website hosting the Whateley Universe, the stories centering on Chau Lee (Bladedancer) are often illustrated with pictures of Zhang Ziyi. The character is fifteen, the actress at least twelve years older... | |
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Despite Total Drama being a show about teenagers, there is not a single teenager in the voice cast, and they are all instead voiced by adults who were at least in their 20's. | |
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Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Kipo and Benson are both voiced by actors in their twenties. | |
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Work It Out Wombats!: While Malik, Zadie, and Zeke are 7, 6, and 4 respectively, their voice actors, Ian Ho, Mia SwamiNathan, and Rain Janjua are in their pre-teens by the time the show started production. Janjua actually discussed this in a podcast episode. 4-year-olds were unable to be cast as Zeke because they wouldn't be able to read their lines, so 9-year-old Janjua was chosen for the role. | |
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In Wicked the age range of the leads Elphaba and Glinda is about 17-23 years, and sometimes there are actresses those ages that play them; but more often than not the roles are given to women in their late-20's to mid-30's, and sometimes even older. | |
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Ready Jet Go!: Ashleigh Ball, an adult, plays Jet, a kid. Same with Zerk, who is voiced by Meg Roe. Sean, Sydney, Mindy, Mitchell, and Lillian are all played by kids or teens who are older than them. | |
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Star Wars Uncut: In this Fan Film remake of Star Wars: A New Hope during the scene on the Death Star bridge Leia (circa 20 years old) is played by a woman who has got to be pushing 80. | |
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A strange example with Sofia the First. Ariel Winter was 14 when she became the voice of the titular character, but said character is 7 years old. | |
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At the time of voicing the 13-year old protagonist of Milo Murphy's Law, "Weird Al" Yankovic was in his late 50's. | |
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Angela from Silent Hill 2 is intended to be a teenager, but was played by an actress in her 40's. This was done on purpose to emphasize how damaged she was after her Dark and Troubled Past. | |
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The music video for Fancy, featuring 24-year-old Iggy Azalea, 22-year-old Charli XCX, and their equally adult friends portraying teen characters from the high school film Clueless. | |
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Belinda Carlisle had a youthful-sounding voice and used it to make references about being a "kid" in "school" finding love for the first time with her band The Go-Go's. In the late 1980s, she became a solo artist at the (relatively) mature age of 29, replete with air-brushed album covers to make her look like someone born after 1958. | |
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Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat has two odd examples. Holly Gauthier-Frankel, who was around 20 at the series' premiere, voices the 6-year old titular character. Meanwhile, the aforementioned character's grandmother, Nai-Nai, is voiced by Sonja Ball, who was much younger than Neil Shee, who was the voice of her character's husband Yeh-Yeh, at the time. | |
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Despite the protagonists being 13-years-old, not a single child character is voiced by a teenager on Big Mouth. Many of them are played by actors in either their 30's, 40's or 50's (mostly 40's). Justified though, considering the show's content and humor. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender averts this in the show itselfnote with the exception of Dante Basco's never-aging voice, but the Show Within a Show The Ember Island Players play it straight. All of the adolescent characters are played by very obviously adult actors. | |
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Spring Awakening is about early high-school-aged students (fourteen or fifteen years old) having sex. The script calls for simulated masturbation, a light BDSM scene, and a sex scene in which the original Broadway choreography calls for the female and male lead to briefly appear topless and bare-butted, respectively. Even if individual productions choose to omit the nudity (as colleges often will if appearing in plays is a requirement to graduate from certain majors), the subject matter and language still make Dawson Casting a safe bet. | |
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Done for artistic reasons in The Golden Ticket, an opera based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as well as the 2017 Broadway musical adaptation of the same — to emphasize Charlie's innocence and kindness compared to the other kids in the story, he's the only character played by a kid. The four brats and several jealous tots who are at hand for the factory opening are all played by adults. | |
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While the film version was a notable exception, Heathers tends to play this straight. Barret Wilbert Weed was 25 during the Off-Broadway production; Ryan McCartan was 20 and one of the younger cast members. | |
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It's very rare that you'll see a production of Romeo and Juliet where Romeo is seventeen, much less one where Juliet is barely fourteen. Leaving aside the challenges of mastering Shakespeare's language and characters, the subject matter (including a rushed marriage, murder, and suicide) is dark and bracing enough as it is. Sometimes the production will just Age Lift Juliet by a few years, even if the actors are still out of their teens. In a more extreme case, the 2019 ACT Theatre production had Mercutio played by the same actor as the much older Lord Montague. | |
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In Kaeloo, all of the characters are children (or are supposed to be anyway; this distinction tends to be blurred quite a bit), but are voiced by adults. | |
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Not only there are many, many examples of adult voice actresses who voice the roles of young/teenage girl characters who are a lot younger than them, but there are also adult voice actors who voice the roles of young/teenage boy characters who are pretty younger than them. For example: Teen Titans where the main voice actors, who are adults, voice the titular team, seeing how they were teenagers, hence the name. | |
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Sabrina Online has a fourth-wall breaking bonus comic to celebrate the series 400th strip which reveals a Baby Herman-like stunt double for Timmy Woolfe. | |
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The Danganronpa series has many examples, most notably high school students Hajime Hinata and Nagito Komaeda being voiced by 47-year-old Minami Takayama and 46-year-old Megumi Ogata. | |
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Frozen (2018): Much like in the movie, Princess Anna is eighteen, three years younger than Queen Elsa, who is twenty-one. At the time of the musical's debut, Patti Murin, who plays Anna, was thirty-seven, and Caissie Levy, who plays Elsa, was thirty-six. | |
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Mocked in A Very Potter Musical with CLEARLY College aged Darren Criss stating "I'm just a 12-year-old kid". | |
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Princess Principal: In-Universe - Dorothy is 20 years old and undercover as a high schooler. Ange lampshades it by saying her class must be very kind. | |
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Fighting Opera HUSTLE's Monster Bono was only six years younger than his "father", The Great Muta, and was seven years older than his mother, Yinling The Erotic Terrorist. | |
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Since Nerdy Prudes Must Die is about high schoolers and the limited cast is made up of adults, this is inevitable. The youngest of the three lead "teens" is 28! | |
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Summer Memories: All the child characters are voiced by adults at least in their 20s. This is probably most obvious with Tim, who sounds absolutely nothing like a 7-year-old boy. Word of God confirms this was intentional, as it was meant to play into the idea that people do not sound like themselves in their own memories. The Distant Finale supports this, as the now-adult characters sound exactly like their child selves; similarly, the episode "Summer Forgettory" reveals that outside of Jason's memories, Tim sounds more like a real child. | |
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While this is usually not an issue with animation, it becomes somewhat noticeable when idol series, like Marginal #4 and Uta No Prince-sama, have the voice actors perform concerts in character. Though, some of them definitely look the part, like Unicorn Jr.'s Shouta Aoi and Toshiyuki Someya (both 30 at the time of the franchise's first big concert; their characters are 15 and 16). Somewhat subverted with the third member of the trio, Alto, who's supposed to be 16, but looks so much like the voice actor that he seems older, even in the animation. | |
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SuperMarioLogan: Every single child character is voiced by an adult, and no attempt is made to hide this. Bowser Junior, for example, is 12 as of this writing, yet is voiced by series creator Logan Thirtyacre; naturally, this makes him sound no younger than 20. | |
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Behind The Veil is an interesting case of this, with the "actors" being limited to celebrity representations of what the character's appearance would be. However several characters ages are either older or younger than the celebrities portraying them, for example the 32-year-old Jack Raven being represented by the 45-year-old Jeffrey Dean Morgan. | |
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The 2015 Broadway production of Gigi has 26-year-old Vanessa Hudgens playing 18-year-old Gigi. Coincidentally, Leslie Caron was the same age when the original film was made. On the other hand, the role of Gaston, who was played by 36-year-old actor in the film, is being performed on Broadway by Corey Cott, who's only 24! | |
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TNA did a storyline where "Father" James Mitchell claimed to be the father of Abyss...except taking into account their relative ages meant that Mitchell was only 9 when Abyss would have been born. | |
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My Immortal: In the author's notes, Tara Gilesbie suggested that Gerard Way should play Draco in the next Harry Potter film. Gerard was almost thirty at the time. | |
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Korn have made a career out of teenage angst and high school ostracizing; so far they've been at it since 1993, being at the time 22 years old plus. The video for the song Thoughtless, being set in a high school, no doubt features numerous instances of it. The most prominent (although, age-wise, the gap isn't that big), especially now, is on the part of the video's "lead character", played by a then-22-year-old Aaron Paul. |
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Disco Elysium: 12-year-old Cuno note At least in the original cut of the game and 10-year-old Cunoesse are both voiced by adults, which is understandable, considering the bulk of their dialogue. | |
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Alysanne, Lady of Winterfell: In-universe. Myribeth, the lead actress of the Sunflowers, is middle-aged and plays a character based on Queen Alysanne, who is twenty-five. Her POV section mentions that there simply isn't anyone else in the troupe who can be a leading actress, and this is a significant source of worry for her — she can still play the parts of younger women for now, but she isn't getting any younger and the troupe will likely find itself unable to function once she fully ages out of the role. | |
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Due to the fact that Hamilton covers such a long period of time—1776 to 1804 not including the prologue covering the first 19 years of Alexander Hamilton's life—this was pretty much a necessity. However, by far the most blatant example occurs with Alexander's eldest son Phillip. He's the only one of the Hamiltons' eight children with a role in the play (the other kids are mentioned but he's the only one who appears), and the same adult actor plays him at both 9 years old and 19. It helps that his original actor, Anthony Ramos, has a smaller frame, boyish face, and higher vocal range, making it much less distracting than, say, having the hulking baritone Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan in the first act, James Madison in the second) in that role. | |
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Bryan Adams had a hit with "18 Till I Die" in 1997, at the age of 37. | |
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Lampshaded in the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Thirteensomething", where Babs disguises herself to get a role on the titular show (which has a Humans-only cast). Her Paper-Thin Disguise features a much curvier figure than you'd expect for a human girl of Babs' approximate age. | |
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Epic Rap Battles of History: "Romeo & Juliet vs. Bonnie & Clyde": In the original play by Shakespeare, Juliet is only 13 years old, while Romeo is probably not much older. This was lampshaded by their opponents, where Bonnie called Juliet a "prepubescent vixen", and Clyde referred to Romeo as a "boy". In real life, Grace Helbig (Juliet's actress) is a year older than Bonnie's actress, Hannah Heart (they're 30 and 29, respectively). While NicePeter, who portrayed Romeo, is 36. Wendy (as in the mascot of Wendy's) is an 8-year-old girl who was portrayed by the adult MC Goldiloxx... and, despite being a little girl, still saw fit to use "old enough to be my daddies" as an insult against Ronald McDonald and the Burger King. Wendy also compares Ronald to a child abandoned in a Playplace; said "child" was played by the very adult Atul Singh. |
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Almost the entire cast of Shipwrecked Comedy's "American Whoopee" is 20- and 30-somethings playing high school students. This might be part of the point since it is a parody of teen comedies that typically play this trope straight. | |
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Tedd from El Goonish Shive invokes this in an EGS:NP strip by claiming to be twenty-one outside of continuity due to Comic-Book Time. Grace counters the gap might be up to a year, making Tedd eighteen. She then goes on to say that it doesn't matter anyways since none of them are likely to look any different before they turn 30.note Though the revelation that he may be under the drinking age causes Tedd to excuse himself so that he can dispose of a keg in the fridge before his dad finds it. | |
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Kelly Kelly evoked this, even though her character was intentionally written to subvert it. When hired to appear as an "exhibitionist" on ECW on SciFi in the late spring of 2006, Barbara Jean Blank, born in 1987, was not yet 20 (her birthday is in January) and looked even younger than that. The commentators and other performers frequently called attention to the fact that Kelly was "underage", even though 20 is comfortably over the age of consent in the United States and most European countries; they were merely trying to emphasize that she was the youngest person on the entire roster. As if those innuendoes weren't enough, Kelly was also paired romantically with Mike Knox, a man so gargantuan that he looked more like her father than her boyfriend - and who acted like her father, too. | |
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The song 3LW's "No More (Baby I'ma Do Right)" has the lyrics "But that was last year in the eighth grade". The singers were a few years older than most ninth graders. | |
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Pat Benatar, born in 1953, built an entire discography around singing about how "we are young" back in the 1980s. The video for "Love is a Battlefield" (which has the "we are young" line in question), where she plays a teen runaway. She was 30 at the time she made the video. | |
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The Gumdrops is about college students, with the characters implied to be second years at the youngest (meaning 20-21). The only actor who actually is that age is James Byrne, playing Pete. Rebecca Rose Flynn, Corey Patton, Ellen Jones and Bobby Calloway are all mid-twenties (although in Ireland college students can be any age over eighteen - and Rebecca in fact had just finished college when she was cast). Ingrid Igoe and Kaireht Yovera were already in their thirties! Neither looked it. | |
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Pete Burns was 26 when he released his album "Youthquake" and the other members of British New Wave band called Dead or Alive were in their late 20s and early 30s. | |
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All of the 12-year-old Noobs in Super Noobs were all voiced by adults who were in their early and late 40s years of age when the show first started. | |
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The 20th anniversary staging of Sera Myu has the 35-year-old Yamato Yuuga playing the high-schooler Chiba Mamoru note if we go by his age in manga and Sailor Moon Crystal canon. Yamato left the role after five years, with her last musical having Mamoru going to Harvard as a plot point, which makes him a college student played by a 40-year-old actress. | |
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In Maya & Miguel, the 10-year-old title twins were voiced by 38-year-old Candi Milo and 35-year-old Nika Futterman. | |
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Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto shows Cesare Borgia and his most loyal follower Miguel da Corella as 16-year-old students, along with their classmates in Pisa University. In the 2023 original cast, Cesare was played by 40-year-old Akinori Nakagawa, and Miguel was played by 42-year-old Kenchi Tachibana. Nakagawa had played other teenaged characters shortly before, and his performance is surprisingly believable. Most of the other actors playing the students were in their late 20's or early 30's, but famous for playing young characters in 2.5D stage play series like The Prince of Tennis and Ensemble Stars!, and they were all believable here. | |
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South Park couldn't help but use this trope when they did the live-action reenactment in "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" by casting guys in their mid 20s to play the ten year old boys. Cue the narrator emphasizing "These four 4th graders" throughout. | |
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In Beetlejuice, Skye the Girl Scout was played by 34-year-old Dana Steingold. | |
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Teddy Ruxpin and Grubby from The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin are supposed to be teens, but they were voiced by Phil Baron and Will Ryan, who were both 38 at the time. | |
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Rosie's Rules has Gabby Clarke, age 17 at the time of the show's premiere, playing the 12-year-old Crystal. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Family Guy, in which the "older kid" on Dawson's Creek is an old lady who behaves in a stereotypically grandmotherly way (fixing Dylan's sock for him, and reminiscing about how things used to be). | |
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The teenagers in Final Fantasy VIII look to be in their early to mid-20s. Since the game is supposed to be like an American-style high school drama and was made at the height of Squaresoft's period of trying to be 'cinematic', it comes across as an intentional stab at creating the look of a Dawson-cast movie. This is especially apparent with Squall, who was modelled after a musician who had been in his 30s at the time of development. There is a sadder element here as well - with the characters being Child Soldiers, so they could have aged slightly due to all their combat training (the game opens with their final exam being thrown into a war zone as peace keepers). | |
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The song and video for Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl", which depicts Gwen as a high schooler. She was 36. | |
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The video for the song Thoughtless, being set in a high school, no doubt features numerous instances of it. The most prominent (although, age-wise, the gap isn't that big), especially now, is on the part of the video's "lead character", played by a then-22-year-old Aaron Paul. | |
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Out With Dad: All of the actors who played the main teenage characters were at least four years older than them starting out. Kate Conway as Rose was nine years older to begin with. | |
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Acknowledged in Interstitial: Actual Play when the party heads to the High School Musical world. In-universe, the cast all look like they're in their twenties, which helps actual twenty year olds Edith and Roxanne blend in. | |
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In Book-It Repertory Theatre's 2020 play of The Turn of the Screw, 8-year-old Flora and 10-year-old Miles were both played by actresses in their 20s, also making the latter a Crosscast Role. | |
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Indigo Girls | |
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Most productions of The King and I, including the film, apply this trope to Anna Leonowens and the King, presumably to make their battle of wills feel more evenly matched and to enhance their Unresolved Sexual Tension. The real Anna was in her late 20s or early 30s (though she most likely claimed to be younger than she was) when she came to Siam, while King Mongkut was nearly 60, but they're usually both played by performers in their mid to late 30s or 40s. | |
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