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Hollywood Old

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Hollywood Old	comment	In movies and television shows, an actor often tends to look younger than the age their character is supposed to be. When the character is middle-aged or older, this is a case of Hollywood Old. A character can be "supposed to be" a certain age in two ways: Either an age is stated outright in the story, or the character is a historical person. Hollywood Old activates in three slightly different ways. The actor is far younger than the character is at any point in the story. The character starts out in an age bracket appropriate for the actor. However, as the years go by (or are skipped by time travel, whether in-universe or in the meta sense) and the character ages, hardly anything is done to make the actor look older. The actor and the character are technically the same age, but the actor looks much younger because of Botox, plastic surgery, etc. The character is a real person who looked their age or a fictional character inhabiting a time, place, or economic situation in which such things aren't available. Characters that are Older Than They Look should not be considered Hollywood Old, as long as the difference between looks and actual age is explained in one way or another. Improbable Age can be considered Hollywood Old when not justified in one way or another. In itself, Hollywood Old isn't a gendered trope. However, like Hollywood Homely, Hollywood Old gets disproportionately applied to actresses, probably because of Hollywood Beauty Standards. Hollywood Old is the reverse of Dawson Casting, where a young character is played by an actor who both is and looks somewhat older than the character is supposed to be. See also Absurdly Youthful Mother. Compare Hollywood Thin and similar Hollywood Tropes. Compare White-Dwarf Starlet to see what Hollywood reserves for actual old actresses. Contrast Age Lift, where a story is changed so that the character will fit a (usually male) actor's age.
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Hollywood Old / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit introduced the character of Sheila Porter, the biological grandmother of Lieutenant Benson's adopted son Noah. Said character is played by Brooke Shields, who is a year younger than Mariska Hargitay. Noah's biological mother was intended to be young enough for it to not be implausible for Shields to play her mother, only for Shields's character to be as old as she apparently was when having her.
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Hollywood Old / int_17d98318	comment	Silver Linings Playbook - she's the love interest of the 37-year-old Bradley Cooper and has been married for years, also having spent time in a mental hospital. She was twenty-one at the time. Anne Hathaway was the original choice for Tiffany - late twenties at the time - making it slightly more reasonable.
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Hollywood Old / int_1af3cde6	comment	In the stage version of Cats, Grizabella is meant to be an old cat who is long past her glamorous prime. Her song "Memory" is in fact about her Glory Days. The 2019 film adaptation casts 37 year old Jennifer Hudson.
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Hollywood Old / int_1d0febfd	comment	The main trio at the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. It's supposed to be 19 years later (putting them in their late thirties), but Harry and Ron only look slightly older and Hermione hasn't aged at all. Ginny does look somewhat convincing though. Ironically, this scene was reshot, as the original version made the actors looked "too old"!
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Hollywood Old / int_203f09b9	comment	Parodied in The Lovely Bones where Grandma Lynn insists she's thirty-five (despite having two teenaged granddaughters). She's played Susan Sarandon, who was in her 60s at the time.
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Hollywood Old / int_21b21f35	comment	BoJack Horseman: In "The Dog Days are Over", Stefani mentions this trend when she demands a listicle about "five empowering roles for women over 40 that would be better played by Jennifer Lawrence." Lawrence was 28 at the time of airing.
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Hollywood Old / int_22147342	comment	In Arrow, John Barrowman and Colin Donnell play father and son Malcom and Tommy Merlyn, when in reality they are only 14 years apart in age.
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Hollywood Old / int_2858b08a	comment	Full House - Danny Tanner, played by 29-year-old Bob Saget, is a widower with a successful career in TV journalism, an 11-year old daughter, who also financially supports his brother-in-law and best friend.
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Hollywood Old / int_28724fb2	comment	Titanic (1997): Gloria Stuart at 87 played older Rose, who is 100. Justified given her advanced age; there aren't a lot of actresses in their 90s to choose from.
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Hollywood Old / int_2b118f9e	comment	Strangely inverted in The Mummy (2017). Russell Crowe identifies Tom Cruise as a "younger man" - apropos, considering he's on active duty in the military. Cruise is two years older than Crowe.
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Hollywood Old / int_2c2a56e3	comment	Although unstated in the film, Qui-Gon Jinn is supposed to be sixty years old in The Phantom Menace, but was played by then 47-year-old Liam Neeson, who doesn't look anywhere near sixty in the movie. Perhaps because of this, the rebooted Expanded Universe changes his age to forty-eight.
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Hollywood Old / int_2e024142	comment	In Exodus (1960), Barak Ben Canaan and his brother Akiva are both played by actors in their fifties (albeit both David Opatoshu and Lee J. Cobb were well-known for being Younger Than They Look). Their age in the film is never explicitly stated. In the book, Barak was eighty and Akiva two years younger.
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Hollywood Old / int_2e75ac68	comment	In the original 1934 version of Imitation of Life, Louise Beavers played the mother to Fredi Washington - who was only two years her junior. True to the trope's form, Louise played the role when her daughter is a child and continued to do so after a Time Skip. Her more matronly frame made the casting believable, as well as Fredi Washington not looking thirty at the time - Peola is meant to be eighteen.
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Hollywood Old / int_2f6625c7	comment	In Jesus of Nazareth, Olivia Hussey plays the Blessed Virgin Mary, who appears to remain the same age throughout the miniseries, until after The Crucifixion.
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Hollywood Old / int_355f9150	comment	In The Witcher (2019), Jaskier is a mortal man who travels on and off for over two decades with Geralt and Yennifer, who both age extremely slowly due to magic. He also does not age perceptibly across this time period, despite a mention of having supposed developed crow's feet, enhancing the confusion of the first season's Anachronic Order.
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Hollywood Old / int_37f92864	comment	Katey Harvey was involved in a few Older Hero Versus Younger Villain storylines when she was only in her late twenties.
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Hollywood Old / int_3a770ffb	comment	In-universe in Nighttime Is My Time, this came up in a conversation between Alison and Laura about a potential role in an upcoming sit-com; Alison said they might be looking for a younger actress for the role in question, only for Laura to argue that she's only thirty-eight and that the character has a twelve year old daughter, plus she can pass for younger.
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Hollywood Old / int_4f1f3628	comment	The Suite Life of Zack & Cody parodies this with the twins' mother Carey. Her actress Kim Rhodes was in her mid-thirties, which is a reasonable age to the mother of preteens (although she looked a few years younger). The twins however would constantly joke about her being old, to her annoyance. The dissonance is clearly meant to be intentional - and in an episode where they plan to make a sitcom about the twins, they cast a twenty-two year old to play the mother (who insists she's "played old" before).
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Hollywood Old / int_4f46b380	comment	Two decades pass between X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Apocalypse, and none of the characters appear to have aged a day, even though at that point Charles and Erik should be in their fifties.
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Hollywood Old / int_502cbd09	comment	In Luke Cage (2016), 42-year-old Mahershala Ali is portrayed as just a slightly younger contemporary of 63-year-old Alfre Woodard and 67-year-old Frankie Faison. This gets especially funny when his character appears as a teenager in a series of flashbacks to before Ali was even born.
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Hollywood Old / int_50e2e357	comment	In Star Trek (2009), Winona Ryder was cast as Spock's mother Amanda, who would first appear in a scene of his birth, and then wear old age makeup for the rest of her screentime. Then the birth scene was cut, giving the impression that a younger actress was cast for no reason.
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Hollywood Old / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Convict's Piano", the 62-year-old Norman Fell plays Eddie O'Hara, an old convict who has been in prison for 58 years because he was framed for murder when he was at least in his 20s.
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Hollywood Old / int_57965cef	comment	Based on the amount of time that passed between her her solo movie and Avengers: Endgame, Carol Danvers should be in her 50s, yet she is played by Brie Larson, who was 27/28 at the time of filming. Fans largely Hand Waved this as her natural aging being delayed as a side effect of her exposure to the Tesseract.
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Hollywood Old / int_585e686d	comment	Old is about people that undergo Rapid Aging. The children change their actors. The adults enter type 2 of this trope, given there's barely any attempt at making them look older. As a result, Prisca tells Guy that he has noticeable wrinkles when there aren't any visible on his face, the ageing effects are of different speeds and much more variable, and it's mainly noticeable once the characters' hair goes gray that they're supposed to be elderly.
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Hollywood Old / int_59151283	comment	Solid Snake of Metal Gear gets treated this way in Metal Gear Solid, where he's only 33 years old and everyone keeps treating him like he's too old to be on the field anymore (e.g. Campbell commenting that "age hasn't slowed you down one bit" if you get out of the opening docks fast enough, Gray Fox claiming that Snake "hasn't aged well" near the end of the game, etc.). This ended up becoming a plot point in later games, as by Metal Gear Solid 4, nine years later, he really does look like an old man who'd fit in more at a nursing home than a battlefield, because he was genetically modified to age faster as part of multiple efforts to keep the "Sons of Big Boss" out of anyone else's hands.
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Hollywood Old / int_59da62aa	comment	Old Lady Gibson in Fallout: New Vegas, despite her white hair, barely looks older than about 40. Then again, some people in real life get gray hair at 30 or earlier. This also applies to the older age settings for the player character (said to go up to 60), as there is no "wrinkled" face option for them outside of mods, unlike certain NPCs. In fact, early Bethesda games (Fallout, Elder Scrolls) had a weird issue portraying elderly characters, due to re-using one body frame for each gender. Thus you could have an elderly woman with a wrinkled face, grey hair... and a 23-year-old's firm and svelte body. They have addressed this somewhat, but there still are several characters who are old only from the neck up.
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Hollywood Old / int_59e65a05	comment	Speaking of Miss Lansbury, while their ages are not given in the film, she played Lawrence Harvey's mother in the 1962 adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate despite being only three years his senior.
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Hollywood Old / int_5ca2f3f9	comment	Lampshaded in Wizards of Waverly Place, when addressing the eldest son and daughter's misconceptions about age. Thirty-five doesn't equal middle age. The scene is really cathartic in a form of media which generally displays sexism and ageism in order to pander to a younger audience.
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Hollywood Old / int_5e9ea81e	comment	Queen Ramonda of Black Panther (2018) has white hair to indicate that she's old. Her actress Angela Bassett was fifty-nine and did not look old enough to have such white hair.
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Hollywood Old / int_5ff059fa	comment	This is handwaved in First Class regarding Raven and Hank, as Hank states her shape-shifting abilities provide her with extended youth, and she'll age much slower than the others (in order to excuse the fact she's depicted here as Xavier's age, where the prior films she was portrayed by Rebecca Romijn, who was in her late twenties during the original trilogy). Hank reverse-engineers this in order to make his (failed) mutant suppression serum, which transforms him into his Beast-like mutated form. As a result, it's assumed he gained her extended youth as well. Furthermore, given that mutants were, during First Class, still a newly discovered phenomena that they were only just beginning to understand, its possible that Hank's discovery of Raven's mutation-born extended youth isn't unique to her and may be a trait common among mutants (supported by the fact Wolverine as well explicitly doesn't age until the events of The Wolverine weakened his powers, and the same applies to Sebastian Shaw in First Class as well), which would explain this away for Erik and Charles as well...though it still raises the question as to why Moira MacTaggert didn't age during the 20 year gap between First Class and Apocalypse either.
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Hollywood Old / int_6a12c526	comment	The Other Two: Parodied, late-20s Cary is considered "perfect" for the role of an elderly teacher with dementia on a Riverdale spinoff.
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Hollywood Old / int_6aa713cb	comment	A male version in Hidden Figures. The astronaut John Glenn was in his forties at the time the film takes place. They cast Glen Powell - who was twenty-seven. And they even show pictures of the real man in the end credits.
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Hollywood Old / int_6ab76f31	comment	My Cousin Vinny has then-28-year-old Marisa Tomei's Lisa as the fiancÃ©e of then-49-year-old Joe Pesci's Vinny. Lisa and Vinny have been together for at least ten years, Lisa has a niece who's getting married and goes on a rant about how her biological clock is ticking, so this doesn't seem to be a case of Age-Gap Romance and Lisa is probably supposed to be older than Tomei was at the time.
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Hollywood Old / int_6c47db4e	comment	Sun Jian in the Dynasty Warriors franchise has three adult-aged kids and sports an entire head of white hair, yet he is still physically fit for fighting and doesn't look much older than 35. Somewhat Justified, as the real life Sun Jian was killed in his 30's. In addition, the oldest character in the cast is not white-bearded Huang Zhong with his many references to his advanced age. It is actually, by a year, Jia Xu; who shows no sign of being any older than 30.
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Hollywood Old / int_705f9751	comment	Florence Foster Jenkins - the real Florence was ten years Meryl Streep's senior. Meryl had her costumes padded.
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Hollywood Old / int_70d87bbd	comment	The Sunshine Boys: The film stars George Burns and Walter Matthau as an elderly, retired former comedy duo. Burns was actually in his late 70s at the time, but Matthau was only in his mid-50s.
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Hollywood Old / int_752075f	comment	Outlander had a twenty year Time Skip between seasons two and three, but aside from any children, no Time-Shifted Actor's where used. In that time Jamie gained a pair of reading glasses and Clair a few virtually unnoticeable unless called attention to, grey hairs but other than that they and everyone else looked exactly the same. This came with some very heavy lampshading.
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Hollywood Old / int_79dd20c6	comment	Victoria cast 40-something Rufus Sewell as 60-something Lord Melbourne, the better to make an implied romance between Melbourne and 19-year-old Queen Victoria a little more palatable.
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Hollywood Old / int_7c96a245	comment	Mickie James highlighted the double standard in her second run with WWE, where she was treated like she was "too old" and pressured to retire even though she was only 41 during her second release. For comparison - when Edge returned in 2020 at 46, he enjoyed a main event push and Royal Rumble win during his return. Mickie never held a title in her second run nor was she pushed in any meaningful way. She mostly just did jobs for younger women.
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Hollywood Old / int_7e793c21	comment	In the Watchmen movie, Matthew Goode was about 27 or 28 when he was filmed as 45/46-year-old Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias. Possibly justified, as Veidt's age in the film is never given, Ozymandias has appearances in flashbacks two decades prior, and he's meant to be preternaturally youthful-looking anyway.
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Hollywood Old / int_800c952c	comment	William Hartnell himself was in his late fifties but playing a character who was the equivalent of at least seventy in human terms. In the 50th anniversary special An Adventure in Space and Time about the early years of the show, Hartnell is played by 71-year-old David Bradley, who's a perfect fit.
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Hollywood Old / int_829b2f67	comment	In The Sound of Music, a then-35-year-old Christopher Plummer played Captain Von Trapp, who was actually in his 50s at the time the movie was set.
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Hollywood Old / int_878f168b	comment	In The Last Kingdom, Queen Aelswith's character is supposed to be a middle-aged woman in her early-to-mid 40s and 50s throughout most of the show, and was the mother of Prince (and later King) Edward, who was supposed to be in his mid-to-late 20s and 30s. The actress who played her character, Eliza Butterworth, was actually only between 21 and 28 years old during the show's run. This trope was exaggerated even more with the fact that her character was slightly aged up for each season she played in until her character's death in the final season.
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Hollywood Old / int_8d7e9d35	comment	In-universe example in Feud - in which studio execs want to cast young actresses in the film version of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. Ironically this didn't happen in reality - as the entire gimmick around the film was that leading ladies from the 1930s and 40s would star as has-beens.
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Hollywood Old / int_8d8100ab	comment	Lost: With all the flashbacks and flashforwards and time travel going on, the same character can be Hollywood Old and looking too young in the same episode. In later seasons this is sometimes averted by making the same character be played by different actresses (who look really similar but with a clear age difference) in different time periods.
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Hollywood Old / int_8e5d77e6	comment	The Alfred Hitchcock film Marnie plays with this. Louise Latham was only about nine years older playing the mother of Tippi Hedren. This was for the sake of appearing in a flashback sequence to Marnie's childhood. However the old age make-up she wore for the present day scenes was so convincing that when she appeared without it for the flashbacks, the crew thought it was a different actress!
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Hollywood Old / int_90b916ba	comment	The antagonist of the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Mean Seasons" is Page Monroe, a former model and actress who fizzled out of the industry after turning thirty. The pressures of the ageism caused her to develop severe body dysmorphia and swearing revenge on those who ruined her.
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Hollywood Old / int_91354527	comment	In Scrooge (1970), a then 34-year-old Albert Finney played elderly Scrooge. They do a pretty good job of making him look older, but Finney still looks significantly younger than Scrooges in other adaptations of A Christmas Carol. Finney also played the young adult Scrooge (late teens/20s). However, Scrooge may not be as old as most adaptations show him to be. He is usually played by actors in their late sixties (or made-up to look so), but if the woman Scrooge once courted had a teenager and an infant at the time when Jacob Marley died, which was seven years prior to the story's present, then Scrooge is probably somewhere around 50, maybe a few years older. Speaking of Belle, in the 1951 and 1984 films, both her past and present ages were played by the same actresses. Anyway, Albert Finney did an excellent job of playing the mid-50s Hercule Poirot, when he himself was in his mid-30s, in Murder on the Orient Express. It took the help of some make-up, but Finney is a very good actor. Likewise, in ACT's annual stage production, the laundress and charwoman, who are middle-aged, are often played by younger actresses. The late John Gilbert, the original Scrooge in the production, started playing the role at age 37.
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Hollywood Old / int_982dcabe	comment	What's Love Got to Do with It (1993): Ike and Tina Turner are portrayed by 32-year-old Laurence Fishburne and 35-year-old Angela Bassett, from the late 1950s all the way until 1983. Other than hairstyle and wardrobe changes, neither Ike nor Tina change at all as they age despite Tina being 44 and Ike being 52 by the end. Their grown sons look more or less the same age as the parents.
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Hollywood Old / int_98744614	comment	Caroline Morahan as Queen Elinor from Brave probably would have been the right age if the show took place in the same timeframe as the film. But it's at least ten years later, with Merida being a grown woman ready to ascend the throne of DunBroch. Charitably, you could say that Amy Manson (who was 29) is playing Merida a few years younger, and Elinor may have been a young mother.
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Hollywood Old / int_98d00e38	comment	Selena: Selena's mother Marcela Quintanilla is portrayed by Constance Marie, both in Selena's childhood and adulthood. Marie is only four years older than Jennifer Lopez, who plays Selena as an adult, and Marie was only given a short wig and glasses for Selena's adulthood.
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Hollywood Old / int_9b4ea9b5	comment	Jupiter Ascending shows Kalique before the youth-restoring tonic with a bit of grey hair and wrinkles, and Jupiter guesses her age as "late forties". Tuppence Middleton was in her mid-20s and looked like a young woman wearing older age make-up.
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Hollywood Old / int_9bc9d7e3	comment	Slasher: The Executioner: Assuming that the events take place in 2016, Sarah is supposed to be 28 years old, but her grandmother Brenda (who should be pushing 80) is played by an actress who would be far more convincing as her mother (who is already dead within the show's Present Day storyline) or aunt, as Wendy Crewson was barely 60 while filming and she looked even younger.
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Hollywood Old / int_9c702d67	comment	In The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, 36-year-old Luke Garroway is played by 29-year-old Aidan Turner.
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Hollywood Old / int_9cef2321	comment	The film of Easy Virtue treats Larita almost as an Old Maid, by giving Jessica Biel crows' feet in some scenes. She is several months younger than Ben Barnes - who plays her boy toy of a husband.
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Hollywood Old / int_9d8c6a74	comment	In the film adaptation of Les MisÃ©rables (2012), 44-year-old Hugh Jackman plays the much older Jean Valjean.
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Hollywood Old / int_a4274674	comment	Martha Kent in Man of Steel would have to be pushing 60 in the present timeline, but is played by 46-year-old Diane Lane. Justified in that she plays the character across a 20-year timeline. Kevin Costner meanwhile, was a good 10 years older than both her and his character John Kent when he dies in a flashback. Again somewhat justified as Kevin Costner is playing a farmer, so he can get away with looking older than his character's age.
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Hollywood Old / int_a5a63da7	comment	In Queen of the Damned, forty-year-old Paul McGann plays David Talbot, a character who's supposed to be quite old. At one point he says he's "too old to live forever" and it comes across a bit strangely, particularly if you know the line was written for someone who's actually old.
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Hollywood Old / int_a7a70d07	comment	Moonstruck: Nicolas Cage was 23 at the time of the film's release, yet his love interest is 37 (played by then-42 Cher), and his older brother is 42 (played by 54-year-old Danny Aiello). Although Cage's character's age is never mentioned in the film, it seems to be trying to pass him off as being in his 30s, as there's never a hint of any substantial age gap between himself and either Cher's character or his brother, and Cage had a mature enough appearance to pull it off.
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Hollywood Old / int_acb92fd0	comment	Father Ted: Pauline McLynn was 33 when the series started, playing a character in her forties. She almost didn't get the part, because she was too pretty for Mrs. Doyle. Frank Kelly was 58 when the series started; Father Jack is supposed to be fifteen to twenty years older.
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Hollywood Old / int_adf4e69	comment	Strangers with Candy focuses on the 46 year old Jerri Blank played by 38 year old Amy Sedaris. A combination of makeup, hairstyling and unflattering facial mannerisms was used to make her look much older. In the series finale, Jerri gets a makeover which shows how young Sedaris really looked back then.
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Hollywood Old / int_af9c8bb6	comment	A.N.T. Farm has a principal who is supposed to be horrifically old. She is played by a 50-year-old woman.
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Hollywood Old / int_b3690647	comment	Happens by retcon with Moira MacTaggert in the X-Men films. If you accept that X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: First Class are both set in the same timeline, and that Moira is the same character in both films, Moira would be nearly as old as Xavier in X3 (Patrick Stewart was 66 at the time). Moira, however, was played by then-38 Olivia Williams in X3, while then-32-year-old Rose Byrne portrayed her in First Class. Williams does look a bit older than just the 5-6 year gap between herself and Byrne, but nowhere near the 60+ she ought to be to match Xavier. Two decades pass between X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Apocalypse, and none of the characters appear to have aged a day, even though at that point Charles and Erik should be in their fifties. This is handwaved in First Class regarding Raven and Hank, as Hank states her shape-shifting abilities provide her with extended youth, and she'll age much slower than the others (in order to excuse the fact she's depicted here as Xavier's age, where the prior films she was portrayed by Rebecca Romijn, who was in her late twenties during the original trilogy). Hank reverse-engineers this in order to make his (failed) mutant suppression serum, which transforms him into his Beast-like mutated form. As a result, it's assumed he gained her extended youth as well. Furthermore, given that mutants were, during First Class, still a newly discovered phenomena that they were only just beginning to understand, its possible that Hank's discovery of Raven's mutation-born extended youth isn't unique to her and may be a trait common among mutants (supported by the fact Wolverine as well explicitly doesn't age until the events of The Wolverine weakened his powers, and the same applies to Sebastian Shaw in First Class as well), which would explain this away for Erik and Charles as well...though it still raises the question as to why Moira MacTaggert didn't age during the 20 year gap between First Class and Apocalypse either. Happens again in Dark Phoenix, which is set in 1992, 9 years after Apocalypse. Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy were 41 and 39, yet not only Magneto and Xavier are supposed to be in their sixties, but they should in less than a decade look like Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, so maybe Magneto and Charles's ages caught up with them at an impressive rate.
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Hollywood Old / int_b472f336	comment	In Dan in Real Life, 24-year-old Emily Blunt plays Ruthie Draper, who's supposed to be 40-ish. (Her age is never specified. She went to high school with Mitch and Dan, whose ages are also not stated, though since Dan is widowed with a 17-year-old daughter and is played by then 44-year-old Steve Carell, it's a reasonable assumption that Dan is about Carell's age. Thus Mitch seems to also be a little older than he's cast, as he was played by then 34-year-old Dane Cook.) Ruthie has had a lot of plastic surgery, herself being a plastic surgeon.
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Hollywood Old / int_b6c92dfc	comment	Joy (2015) - Joy Mangano didn't start inventing or becoming a businesswoman until she was thirty. Jennifer was twenty-five.
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Hollywood Old / int_bfef9cdb	comment	In Welcome to Night Vale, The Faceless Old Woman Who Lives In Your Home is actually played by 25-year-old Mara Wilson, who sounds every bit as youthful as she is.
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Hollywood Old / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: Two notable examples are Alicent Hightower and Rhaenyra Targaryen who start as 14-15 years old played by the then 18 years old Emily Carey and 20 years old Milly Alcock. After the 10 years time jump that takes place in episode 6, the two actresses are replaced by Olivia Cooke and Emma D'Arcy, both of them matching the age of the characters, who are 29-30 years old. This trope starts to apply to Alicent and Rhaenyra beginning with episode 8 which takes place after another 6 years time jump. Daemon Targaryen is an odd example. He is around 30 in the pilot, played by the then 37 years old Math Smith. After approximately 2 decades In-Universe, he is 50 years old and a decade older than Math Smith. It should be noted that the show is planned to run for approx. 4 seasons with only 2-3 years passing In-Universe without any other major time jump. With the latest trend of big shows getting filmed usually at every 2 years, every actor who is in this situation will catch up with the age of the characters in time.
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Hollywood Old / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X - Tidus frequently jokes about Auron being an old man and says things like "don't break any bones". Auron is 35, though that probably does seem old to Tidus (who's only 17). In-universe, with Sin regularly destroying everything in Spira, the average citizen appears to be lucky to make it to their thirties.
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Hollywood Old / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: William Hartnell himself was in his late fifties but playing a character who was the equivalent of at least seventy in human terms. In the 50th anniversary special An Adventure in Space and Time about the early years of the show, Hartnell is played by 71-year-old David Bradley, who's a perfect fit. Of course, the Doctor is said to have been at least 450 years old at the time Hartnell played the character, and this would, therefore, apply to every actor who played the role after, especially Peter Capaldi, who as of the end of Series 9 in 2015 was now playing a character who is at least 4.5 billion years old. But the physical age of the body he has at any given time is relevant to this trope in the usual way. Hartnell's Doctor, for example, reacted to physical stress in a manner commensurate with his apparent age, which was not true of successors whose physical bodies corresponded to that of a younger man. In "The Girl in the Fireplace", adult Reinette looks exactly the same no matter what year she's shown in. In season seven, a big deal is made out of the Ponds moving on with their lives and aging every time the Doctor comes back to see them (they mention having traveled with the Doctor for 10 years and in their last appearance, Amy now needs reading glasses). The problem with that second bit? Not one bit of effort is made to make Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan look like anything other than extremely attractive people in their early thirties. Although considering Amy was maybe nineteen in her first episode and about twenty-one during the rest of series five, "early thirties" arguably is them aging and moving on with their lives.
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Hollywood Old / int_cb55536d	comment	In The Greatest Showman Charity and Barnum have loved each other since childhood. The child actors were close in age but, Charity's adult counterpart Michelle Williams is 12 years younger than Barnum's Hugh Jackman.
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Hollywood Old / int_cdae0b41	comment	Forever: Abigail Morgan is played by MacKenzie Mauzy in flashbacks from 1945 to the Vietnam War era, with only changes in clothes and hairstyles to show the passage of time. Averted when the age-appropriate Janet Zarish played the role in 1982 and 1985 flashbacks.
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Hollywood Old / int_cf92e85a	comment	In Valley of the Dolls: Susan Hayward had to bleach her hair to be grey for the scene in which Helen Lawson is revealed to be wearing a wig. The role was originally to be played by Judy Garland, who was similarly too young to have grey hair. In-universe example, where Neely is replaced with a younger actress after she's fired for her drug problems. She's only 28.
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Hollywood Old / int_d502170c	comment	Lusamine in PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon claims to be 40, but looks no older than 20. Her connection to the Ultra Beasts might have something to do with this.
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Hollywood Old / int_d9be958a	comment	In Superman Returns, Lois Lane was the mother of a 5-year-old and was experienced and established enough in her career to have won a Pulitzer Prize. She was played by then-22-year-old Kate Bosworth. Especially jarring as she was meant to be the same character played by Margot Kidder (32 at the time) with over five years more added since the events of Superman II.
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Hollywood Old / int_ddf8bc61	comment	American Hustle - she was twenty-three playing a bitter housewife with an 8-year-old son. Rosalyn's real life counterpart was in her forties when the ABSCAM scandal took place.
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Hollywood Old / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time: A strange case with Lana Parilla as Regina the Evil Queen from Snow White. She's only a year older than Ginnifer Goodwin - who plays Snow White. While it's justifiable that Regina's relatively young since she's the stepmother and her backstory episode pretty much says she was a Trophy Wife, child actress Bailey Madison plays Snow in the episode that depicts them meeting, where teenaged Regina is still played by Parilla. And ironically the show eliminates the 'wish to remain young and beautiful' aspect from the character.note It's possible there was a plan to include that aspect, as the pilot has a line where Snow says, "She poisoned an apple because she thought I was prettier than her", but changed their minds later on, since nothing about Regina's motivation established subsequently in the show fits with that statement - she hates Snow because the latter broke a promise not to tell Regina's mother Cora about Regina's romance with Daniel the stable boy, unintentionally leading to Daniel's death and trapping Regina in marriage to Snow's father. Inverted where Barbara Hershey plays Regina's mother Cora in her sixties. Her younger self is played by Rose McGowan - who was forty (but didn't look it). It's not said how young Cora is in those flashbacks, but one of them revolves around her being Defiled Forever after being tricked into sleeping with a scoundrel (conceiving Regina's older half-sister Zelena, who became the Wicked Witch of the West) - suggesting she's in her twenties and thus wouldn't be married yet. While It Makes Sense in Context for mother and daughter Snow (the aforementioned Ginnifer Goodwin) and Emma (Jennifer Morrison) to be the same age given that the former spent 28 years in a cursed town where no one aged, around Season 4 they started dressing Ginnifer Goodwin down in an attempt to make her look older so she could come across as a more maternal figure. The Blue Fairy's counterpart in Storybrooke is the Mother Superior of the nuns. In most traditions, a Mother Superior has to be at least forty, and her actress Keegan Connor Tracy was only mid-thirties. Of course A Wizard Did It, so we can't expect Regina to be completely accurate when creating her curse. Caroline Morahan as Queen Elinor from Brave probably would have been the right age if the show took place in the same timeframe as the film. But it's at least ten years later, with Merida being a grown woman ready to ascend the throne of DunBroch. Charitably, you could say that Amy Manson (who was 29) is playing Merida a few years younger, and Elinor may have been a young mother. Victoria Smurfitt joked that she saw Cruella De Vil as a Dirty Old Woman and played her as such, despite her only being in her forties when she played her (and the flashback establishing Cruella's backstory treats her as a young woman).
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Hollywood Old / int_e26905cd	comment	Tekken: Nina and Anna are subversions. They are chronologically in their early 40s from 3 onward, but continue to exhibit their youthful, 20-something looks. This is because, in-story, they are physically frozen through cryogenics shortly after the events of 2.
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Hollywood Old / int_e38778a5	comment	The film version of Hello, Dolly! was criticised for casting the twenty-five-year-old Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levi. In the original stage version, she was played by Carol Channing, who was fifty.
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Hollywood Old / int_e482ae8a	comment	Discussed by Bree, an actress in her 40s, on Reboot (2022). She protests the idea of giving her onscreen son a child because if she plays a grandma on TV, Hollywood will start seeing her as elderly and it will be the death knell for her career.
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Hollywood Old / int_e5da0fa0	comment	Atrus in Myst is played by the game's co-creator Rand Miller (who does double duty as Atrus' son Achenar) who was in his early thirties when he first assumed the role in the original game. Rand Miller has noted that he once felt he was too young to play the role of Atrus. But since his likeness and voice has become engrained as Atrus to Myst fans, it would have been wrong to recast the character in the sequels. Later Justified in the Expanded Universe as the D'ni are a superhumanly long-lived race.
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Hollywood Old / int_ea303d7f	comment	Happens again in Dark Phoenix, which is set in 1992, 9 years after Apocalypse. Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy were 41 and 39, yet not only Magneto and Xavier are supposed to be in their sixties, but they should in less than a decade look like Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, so maybe Magneto and Charles's ages caught up with them at an impressive rate.
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Hollywood Old / int_f101bb73	comment	The Aviator: A classic type 2. Leonardo DiCaprio is right for only the first few scenes, then looks way too young during the rest of the movie. Makes it look as if everything accomplished by the middle-aged Howard Hughes was actually accomplished by a man still in his 20s.
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Hollywood Old / int_f10a65b	comment	In Legends of Tomorrow, Agent Smith doesn't look a day older in the episode "Phone Home", despite it taking place 37 years after his younger self was first shown in "Invasion". Also, Young!Stein looks the same at 42 as he does as a college student.
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Hollywood Old / int_f1da64b5	comment	The Lord of the Rings - Aragorn, who is age 87, is played by 43-year old Viggo Mortensen. Justifed because his particular race of men in Middle-Earth have very long lifespans.
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Hollywood Old / int_fb5adbc0	comment	Edie McClurg played a woman going to her 30-year high school reunion in an episode of Mr. Belvedere. In the episode, she looked like she could be in her 40s while everyone else at the reunion looked like they could be in their 50s or 60s.
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Hollywood Old / int_ff2165b	comment	Happens a lot in the present-day scenes in Cold Case, particularly in episodes where the case in question took place before about 1960. "Family 8108" has a particularly noticeable example, where a couple who already had teenage children in the 1940s looked no older in present-day scenes than said children's contemporaries (who accurately appeared to be in their seventies.)
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Hollywood Old / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Survivors" features 67-year-old John Anderson playing 85-year-old Kevin Uxbridge and 55-year-old Anne Haney playing 82-year-old Rishon Uxbridge (that said, the Uxbridge's given ages might be false because Kevin is really a powerful energy being and Rishon is an illusion; at any rate, humans are shown to live longer in the Star Trek universe, so being in your eighties in the 24th century could well be the equivalent of being in your sixties in the present day). The pilot episode, "Encounter At Farpoint", has 67-year-old DeForest Kelley playing 137-year-old Admiral McCoy (although he does look pretty withered). In the episode "The Pegasus", Terry O'Quinn plays Commander Riker's former CO, Admiral (formerly Captain) Pressman. Pressman is, presumably, 15-20 years older than Riker, but Terry O'Quinn, who plays Pressman, is barely a month older than Jonathan Frakes. Captain Picard himself was consistently described in the original series bible as a man of about mid-fifties in age. This age was given precisely so that he would not be an Action Hero type captain, and would, therefore, act like a real starship captain relegating all of the action stuff to a younger first officer (in an attempt to address a common criticism of the original series depiction of Captain Kirk). The Star Trek Encyclopedia by Mike Okuda gives Picard's birth year as 2206. Being that the first TNG episode is set in 2363 or 2364 means that Picard is about 12 years older than Patrick Stewart was at the time he began playing the role. Stewart was only 47 at the time but Picard started at about age 58. The Star Trek Universe has already established that humans remain in their prime a bit longer. Of course, given that Patrick Stewart looks almost exactly the same over two decades later, it was probably appropriate that he be aged up a bit. The episode "Too Short a Season" centers around the 86-year-old Admiral Jameson, who uses alien technology to reverse his age. He's played throughout the episode by 27-year-old Clayton Rohner, wearing extremely obvious makeup in the early scenes. In "Half A Life", David Ogden Stiers was 48 at the time he portrayed Dr. Timicin, who is just shy of 60. His bald and bearded look helps him look older than he is (though perhaps not quite as old as the character he's playing). Given we don't see any other Kaelons his age, nor know the age of any other Kaelons who do appear, it's theoretically possible Kaelons actually age slower than humans, though there's no indication given of this in the episode. It's also mentioned in dialog that Timicin is especially virile for his age, so he might naturally come off as younger than he really is. This works out really well narratively, as it contrasts with Timicin's descriptions of the elderly all being invalids and makes it seem all the more absurd that he's expected to commit ritual suicide.
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