Age Inconsistency in Casting
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Re: Age Inconsistency in Casting
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This is understandable however due to the mature nature of the content. Casting a young child in a major role like that could be inappropriate for that child on set.
That being said, I think a lot of age adaptions are made for characters in movies where it is not completely necessary. Looking at a movie point of view, they need to cast a face that will put people in seats and sell merchandise. The Hunger games adaption worked for me, I don't think it changed the themes or mood of the story too much.
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I was very surprised when I saw that grown-up men and women were playing teenage characters. For example, Daenerys should be 13 years old, and John Snow should be 14 years old.
I understand that some of the scenes in this series were too erotic for underage actors. Perhaps this was the reason for the changes in age.
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However, as I mentioned at the start of this post, I do understand why it happens sometimes. I'm pretty sure Weiss and Benihoff couldn't get away with half the things they've done with actors younger than the ones they cast.
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