[ SECRET POST #3616 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3616 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Great actors cast in the wrong role

[herpymcderp]

playing a character that should be considerably older

Oh my fuck this just made me remember Jessica Chastain in The Martian. Now don't get me wrong, I fucking love Jessica Chastain and she's one of my favourite actresses, but the character in the novel was apparently supposed to be damn near 50 years old and it just pissed me the hell off that they had to shunt that role to a young actress when it could have been a really great opportunity to get an older actress into a bigger film.

Re: Great actors cast in the wrong role

[philstar22]

Yes. Also reminds me how movie!Aunt May's keep getting younger and younger.

Re: Great actors cast in the wrong role

[herpymcderp]

They barely justify that by having Peter Parker be like 13 in the latest thing, but I'm also mad about that.

Give me grey haired granny-bun Aunt May! She was way more awesome.

Re: Great actors cast in the wrong role

[kallanda_lee]

It's just a different character. I of all people know that Aunties can be young, but she was never portrayed as such in the comics.

Re: Great actors cast in the wrong role

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen the Martian but I totally understand your complaint, what makes it worse is that it's usually always the actress/female love interest who is WAYYYY younger but then the lead actor will actually be old as all hell.

If the actor is casted younger maybe I wouldn't notice but it's so awkward looking at a woman in her 20s that is supposed to somehow be roughly the same age as a man in is 40s/50s/60s/and beyond.

Re: Great actors cast in the wrong role

[herpymcderp]

That shit also REALLY rustles my jimmies. 50 year old male lead, 20 year old female love interest shit has GOT to stop. Mostly because it legitimizes creepy old bastards harassing younger women (mostly service staff because they're forced to be polite) since the media they consume convinced them that was a legitimate thing women want.

Fucking fuck THAT shit.

Re: Great actors cast in the wrong role

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT--as a woman who's always been attracted to older guys, this actually bugs me a lot, at least partially for petty reasons. Because "ew why do you like him he's so old" but also "oh I loved that movie I'd totally go for *actor who's 20-30+ years older than female costar/love interest.*" And I'm sitting here going "uh you realize he's way older than her, right, and if I said that about a real life guy you'd be ragging on me about my gross taste in men?" Which gets extra awful and annoying when a rare movie/show casts an older woman opposite an older man but only the woman is "ew so old!" Like, I'm not attracted to women, but it's not like their acting ability goes poof when they hit their thirties (or *gasp* fifties.)

Re: Great actors cast in the wrong role

[herpymcderp]

Oh don't get me wrong here, it's not the age gap that's actually the problem. It's the fact the roles are so rigidly gendered.

I'd be completely fine with this if it was the case that older women routinely got younger male love interests that weren't some component of gross out comedy, or meant purely for shock value.

Re: Great actors cast in the wrong role

[(Anonymous)]

I was really annoyed about the lack of older women in that movie. Lots of older men. What happened to all the post-menopausal women and why didn't we find out about the plague or whatever it was that erased them?

Jessica Chastain was great. But.