222. Aged-Up Casting: The Problem With a Grown Adult Portraying a Sixteen-Year-Old

Published: April 11, 2021, 5 p.m.

A beautiful woman stands in her bedroom, preparing for the day: trying on her clothes, getting ready to face whatever comes her way, probably set to a kitschy song in the background to make a glamorous montage. You’re trying to decide whether she’s the corporate lawyer or quirky barista type when she slings a backpack over her shoulder and, to your horror, calls out a goodbye to her mother, promising to be home by curfew. This can’t possibly be a high schooler, right? I’m supposed to be older than her? 


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Written by Jordyn McEvoy


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