Actors/Actresses who played roles older than them

[agorretta Joined: Mar 25th, 2014 Topics: 0 Posts: 144 View Predictions]

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In Hitchcock’s Notorious, Leopoldine Konstantin played Claude Rains’ mom when she was actually only 3 years older than him irl.

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[Leo Grant Logan Joined: Nov 7th, 2010 Topics: 3 Posts: 145 View Predictions]

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Cher as Meryl Streep’s mother in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again despite Cher being only 3 years older than Streep.

Amy Poehler as Rachel McAdams’ mother in Mean Girls

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[vinny Joined: May 20th, 2011 Topics: 21 Posts: 20201 View Predictions]

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angela lansbury in blue hawaii

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[Vicki Leekx Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 1338 View Predictions]

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Max Von Sydow, The Exorcist 

Albert Finney, Scrooge 

Gloria Stuart, Titanic 

FYC:

Swinton, Weerasethakul Memoria, (Best Actress, Director)
Efira, Rampling, Wilson Benedetta (Best Actress, Supporting Actress/Actor)
Rapace Lamb (Best Actress)
Stewart, Hawkins, Spall Spencer (Best Actress, Supporting Actress/Actor)

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[LA26 Joined: Apr 3rd, 2021 Topics: 24 Posts: 2514 View Predictions]

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Laura Dern as Reese Witherspoon’s mother in Wild, and Adam Driver as Jack Gladney in Noah Baumbach’s upcoming film White Noise.

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[estrelas Joined: Jul 25th, 2018 Topics: 1 Posts: 5478 View Predictions]

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Surprised no one mentioned Jennifer Lawrence in Joy.

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[RIDLEY SCOTT Joined: Dec 12th, 2020 Topics: 58 Posts: 1390 View Predictions]

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estrelas wrote:

Surprised no one mentioned Jennifer Lawrence in Joy.

J-Law in any DOR(their 3

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[RIDLEY SCOTT Joined: Dec 12th, 2020 Topics: 58 Posts: 1390 View Predictions]

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Russell Crowe was only 34 years old in The Insider. Very incredible because after The Insider, he was 35 years old and in the greatest shape of his life in GLADIATOR

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 215 Posts: 32953 View Predictions]

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SN wrote:

The entire cast of Mank had wrong ages.

Tom Pelphrey had the right age. Tuppence Middleton and Gary Oldman on the other hand…

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"The Good Fight", "The Other Two" and "Station Eleven" in all categories, Sarah Lancashire ("Julia"), William Jackson Harper ("Love Life") and Luke Kirby ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel")

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[braydenfitzsimmons Joined: May 3rd, 2015 Topics: 88 Posts: 7564 View Predictions]

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teleflick wrote:

Amy Poehler as Rachel McAdams’ mother in Mean Girls

Honestly the best example of agism and sexism in the industry vis-à-vis roles for women. You play teenager all throughout your twenties until you hit 30 and bam, you’re the mother.

I was shocked when I first learned their was only 7 years between Poehler (33) and McAdams (26).

If it was made five years later I’m pretty certain there’s a timeline where McAdams (31) plays Lohan’s (23) mother instead of her peer.

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[alokin Joined: Jun 23rd, 2012 Topics: 0 Posts: 394 View Predictions]

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Kate Nelligan in The Prince of Tides. She plays (in what I found to be quite an impressive transformation) an aged version of her character, Lila, the mother to Tom Wingo, Nick Nolte’s character.

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[String Cheese Theory Joined: Aug 16th, 2020 Topics: 8 Posts: 1638 View Predictions]

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The obvious answer on the TV side is Mandy Moore in This is Us. There are a few examples in TV, most of them in The Crown.

Amy Schumer’s sketch Last Fuckable Day has a great zinger about Sally Field playing Tom Hanks’ love interest and then his mother within the span of 6 years.

Because Hollywood is scared of actual older women/actresses (like society writ large), there are heaps of examples of younger women being cast to play older characters (like how men played women characters on stage in ye olde times when everyone was scared of women – not much has really changed).

Anne Bancroft was 35 in The Graduate, playing an ‘older woman’ 10-20 years older than that? Dustin Hoffman was 29 playing a college student. The rationale for her casting is pretty gross but that’s in line for a pretty questionable film that portrayed itself as radically modern. Beware misogynists in progressivist clothing.

Bill Hader and Barry in everything (2 babka)
The Great - Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult and comedy writing and directing

Severance in drama series, writing, Adam Scott for best actor, Ben Stiller for drama directing, and the whole cast in supporting.

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[puck05 Joined: Sep 21st, 2019 Topics: 13 Posts: 1530 View Predictions]

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RIDLEY SCOTT wrote:

J-Law in any DOR(their 3

It would take a much longer time for J-Law to be nominated again after Winter’s Bone if DOR didn’t cast her in his films portraying adult women. Her performance in Mother! is 10 times better than any of her DOR performances.

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[The Way of The Wind Joined: Sep 22nd, 2011 Topics: 34 Posts: 1131 View Predictions]

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Ian McKellan – Gandalf was 54,960 years old

Cate Blanchett – Galadriel was 8,372 years old

Gal Gadot – Diana Prince is 5000 years old

2023 Oscar
Best Picture: The Way of The Wind
Best Director: Decision to Leave
Best Actress: TAR
Best Actor: The Whale
Best Supporting Actress: The Whale
Best Supporting Actor: Poor Things

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 215 Posts: 32953 View Predictions]

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It’s always struck me how no one really mentions that Amy Adams and Laura Linney played mother and daughter in Nocturnal Animals even though there’s only a 10 age gap between both thespians.

FYC:

"The Good Fight", "The Other Two" and "Station Eleven" in all categories, Sarah Lancashire ("Julia"), William Jackson Harper ("Love Life") and Luke Kirby ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel")

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