Actors don't appear to be able to represent their actual age in Hollywood. In films and on television, there are a lot of performers in their twenties who play teens. There are even performers who would put on a lot of prosthetics and makeup merely to play a character who is 20 years older than they are.
In the instance of on-screen parent/child duos that are disturbingly close in age, both performers are just a little too far off in age from their roles to make the age gap plausible — i.e., the persons portraying parent and kid are fewer than 15 years apart. True, we've seen 15-year-olds get pregnant in real life, but some of these performers are only a year apart in age! Although some TV parents are clearly too young to play their on-screen children's parents, others will astound you!
In the instance of on-screen parent/child duos that are disturbingly close in age, both performers are just a little too far off in age from their roles to make the age gap plausible — i.e., the persons portraying parent and kid are fewer than 15 years apart. True, we've seen 15-year-olds get pregnant in real life, but some of these performers are only a year apart in age! Although some TV parents are clearly too young to play their on-screen children's parents, others will astound you!
#1 Tom Holland (25) was cast in The Crowded Room series, where Emmy Rossum, who's only 10 years older than him, will be playing his mom.
#2 Kate Mara was 21 and Heath Ledger was 25 during the filming of Brokeback Mountain. In the movie, they played father and daughter.
#3 David Duchovny from The X-Files was born in 1960. Rebecca Toolan was born in 1959. In The X-Files she plays his mom, even though they are only one year apart.
#4 So Adam Garcia was two years older than Drew Barrymore when he played her son in the film Riding in Cars with Boys.
#5 In Orange Is the New Black, Elizabeth Rodriguez played Dascha Polanco's mother even though they have a two-year age gap.
#6 In Jane the Virgin, Andrea Navedo and Gina Rodriguez played mother and daughter.
#7 Taron Egerton was 28, Bryce Dallas Howard was 37 in Rocketman
#8 In Mean Girls, Rachel McAdams plays Regina and Amy Poehler plays Regina's mom with only 7 years gap.
#9 In Blue Bloods, Len Cariou plays Tom Selleck’s father.
#10 Angelina Jolie was 29 played Colin Farrell's (28) mother in the movie Alexander.
#11 In 2009 Star Trek, Winona Ryder was 36, Zachary Quinto was 30 and she played his mother.
#12 Meryl Streep was 69 in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again while Cher played Meryl Streep's mom is 72.
#13 In This Is Us, Mandy Moore plays Sterling, Justin, and Christina's mother despite being younger than all of them
