Maybe it’s because of amazing their performances. The audiences are so drawn to their beautiful love stories that they completely forget about the gigantic age differences between the two leads. We get it that age is really just a number between two consenting adults, but boy oh boy, is it awkward to see these movie couples with giant age gaps act all lovey-dovey on screen now that you know about their true ages?
So Here are 15 movie couples with giant age gaps that we should really talk about. Hollywood seriously should consider casting couples in the same age range, cause looking at these duos is just awkward as hell now.
1. In Something's Gotta Give, Jack Nicholson was more than double the age of his first love interest in the film, Amanda Peet
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2. In Magic in the Moonlight, Emma Stone was 25, and Colin Firth was 53
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3. Tom Cruise was 51 and Emily Blunt was only 31 In Edge of Tomorrow
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4. Sean Connery was 68 and Catherine Zeta-Jones was 29 in Entrapment
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5. Bill Murray was 52 and Scarlett Johansson was 18 in Lost in Translation
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6. Clint Eastwood was 63 and Rene Russo was 39 in In the Line of Fire
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7. Elizabeth Olsen was 31 and Paul Bettany was 49 In WandaVision
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8. In A Perfect Murder, Michael Douglas was 28 years older than Gwyneth Paltrow
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9. In Suicide Squad, Jared Leto was 44 and Margot Robbie was 26
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10. In Poison Ivy, Tom Skerritt was 58, while Drew Barrymore was only 17
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11. Javier Bardem was 48 and Jennifer Lawrence was 27 in Mother
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12. In Ted, Mark Wahlberg was 41 and Mila Kunis was 28
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13. In Autumn in New York, Richard Gere was almost twice as old as Winona Ryder
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14. And so did Jeff Bridges compared to Maggie Gyllenhaal In Crazy Heart
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15. In Six Days, Seven Nights, Anne Heche was 29 when she played 55-year-old Harrison Ford's love interest
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