These actors weren’t fooling anyone when they tried to play teen characters.
The general public just cant go long without one.
There are just so many tropes to love.
Mean Girls / Dear Evan Hansen
Theres the convoluted writing designed to generate maximum hook-ups.
There are those killer soundtracks.
And dont forget the greatest trope of all: Hot 27 and 28-year-olds playing teenagers.
Was she impossibly hot for a sixteen-year-old?
Yeah, but that was kind of the point.
That means that she was wait for it 35when she filmed Season 3!
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By the time Season 4 rolls around, shell be old enough to serve on the Supreme Court.
Sigh, if only we could all pass as nineteen-year-olds once were well into middle age.
Must I remind you that Holly was supposed to be 19.
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How did she find time to hang out in front of Tiffanys every morning?
Didnt she have to go to school?
Was she failing all of her classes?
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Ben Platt inDear Evan Hansen(2021)
The less said about this movie, the better.
So lets go ahead and dedicate an entire paragraph to it.
This movie is bad.
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Like, walk out of the movie bad.
Like, sue the theater that played it bad.
But the source material the Tony-winning Broadway musical is incredible!
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So what went wrong?
And he looks it!
(Movie star Fox political commentator Opponent of Black History Month Banned from Instagram.)
That said, she was still a big deal whenCluelesscame out in 1995.
Her portrayal of Dionne Marie Davenport was instantly iconic and branded her as a prototypical teen of the ages.
However, she was 28 years old during filming.
Thats a full eleven years more than her character.
Still, she got away with it!
