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Post by miriel68 on Oct 12, 2018 11:27:16 GMT
I am not very happy about it: this widespread practice of matching younger actresses with older actors always makes me angry. It surely won't be as bad as Felicity Jones with Tom Hanks in "Inferno" or Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in "The Edge of Tomorrow", but it was so positive to see B. with partners more or less his age, even in dr Strange.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 12, 2018 11:50:16 GMT
Yes, his partners on screen are almost always his own age with a few exceptions but even then they are justified: Tuppence Middleton was playing the historically younger Edison’wife; Valentine (Adelaide Clemens) was a young woman who in the books falls in love with an older man in Parade’s End and BC was playing a younger man when he”flirted” with Allison Williams and a) she is actually disgusted by him and b) Allison looks actually mature for her age. She is one of those actresses that seems from another time when girls actually looked like female fatales! Someone said at the time that with that blue dress she kind of looked like young Catherine Deneuve!
EDITED: Ha! I just remembered that his gay partner in TTSS was a much older man (a teacher) when in the books his character wasn’t just straight but frequently romantically involved with younger women! That was brilliant!
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Post by miriel68 on Oct 12, 2018 15:20:23 GMT
Ha! I just remembered that his gay partner in TTSS was a much older man (a teacher) when in the books his character wasn’t just straight but frequently romantically involved with younger women! That was brilliant! Yes, I liked it very much, as well and I liked that they made his character gay.
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Post by MagdaFR on Oct 12, 2018 15:50:36 GMT
I am not very happy about it: this widespread practice of matching younger actresses with older actors always makes me angry. It surely won't be as bad as Felicity Jones with Tom Hanks in "Inferno" or Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in "The Edge of Tomorrow"... Tom Cruise is always paired with much younger women but he really looks younger than he is so I'm not that annoyed with it. I watched Edge of Tomorrow and liked it very much but I don't remember if there was a romantic relationship between the characters. I can't watch anything with Felicity Jones, I have th same problem Delorb had with Bale. ... but it was so positive to see B. with partners more or less his age, even in dr Strange. I liked the choice of actresses in TCiT (Kelly MacDonald, Anna Madeley) and Patrick Melrose (Anna Madeley, Jessica Raine, Allison Williams) as BC's characters love/sex interests. I don't think there is necessarily a problem pairing characters with some age difference. What it bothers me is lowering the age of women characters to cast younger actresses.
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 17, 2019 12:43:34 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 12, 2019 1:46:20 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 24, 2020 10:56:42 GMT
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Post by onebluestocking on Jan 24, 2020 12:20:05 GMT
Aw! He looks so much like him!
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Post by mllemass on Aug 25, 2021 12:16:14 GMT
I just came across this young actor on Twitter. It was his first acting job, and he’s so excited!
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