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⌈ Secret Post #4051 ⌋

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It's always a little weird with teenage characters.

[(Anonymous)]

Because they are so often played by actors who are not teenagers. And sometimes I look at the character and don't see teenager. The actor for Billy is 23 and I'd maybe say he looks a little younger, but he definitely does not look 16 to me.

Re: It's always a little weird with teenage characters.

[nightscale]

He's only 23? Jesus I actually thought he was older, like late-twenties because when he first turned up I legit thought he was Max's dad(as in he had her as a teen and somehow got custody, or stole her).

Re: It's always a little weird with teenage characters.

[tabaqui]

I didn't think he was that old, but he *does not* come across as a teen, even a 17 or 18 year old. At all.

Which is my biggest issue with most 'teen' characters; they're played by 20-somethings, and it always shows.

Re: It's always a little weird with teenage characters.

[nightscale]

The facial hair and muscles he has did not even remotely scream teen to me, he is so obviously an adult and I really couldn't buy he was supposed to be 17/18 because... no. I mean tbh even Steve, Nancy and Jonathan don't look like teens much to me either but I can just about see them as 18.

Yeah it bugs me too, like it's nearly always 20+ actors playing teens and it's just weird, especially because I do think skews peoples perceptions as to what teens actually look like, because when I see shows that do use actual teens for teen characters, holy fuck do they look like kids(not that they are kids but they actually look as young as they are).

Re: It's always a little weird with teenage characters.

[(Anonymous)]

Young adults are cheaper and easier to work with than teens.

Re: It's always a little weird with teenage characters.

[nightscale]

That is a good point and probably has a lot to do with it, plus not having to work around school schedules.

Re: It's always a little weird with teenage characters.

[tabaqui]

Right? I mean - some of the kids my daughter went to school with were mind-bogglingly adult looking. NOBODY looked that grown up when i was in school. But yeah - i wish they'd have actual kid actors playing kids; i think it kind of makes people see actual kids as 'older' sometimes, too, and thus fair game.

Re: It's always a little weird with teenage characters.

[nightscale]

I can remember thinking that kids my age looked older when I was a teen, I think it's because I wanted to think of myself as more grown-up, but as an adult I'm like 'no you are a fetus' whenever I see rl teens these days because outside of a few outliers they all look so young.