I feel like we need to have a ten hour discussion about the Rock's teenage picture

Jonny Lee Miller was on Keeping Up Appearances????

Saying this now: I want someone over 30 to play Current Daisy in my biopic because I look 12 in real life and want to compensate.
Make this so.

I would like to suggest here that the unrealistic teen standards in media is the beginning of imposter syndrome. Because I know I expected to look and act a lot older when I got to high school. Not to look like the baby dweeb I still was!!

Now that I write this I realize that I may actually be somewhat serious about this suggestion.

I am a big fan of this tumblr, but my all-time favorite post is Will Smith's, because:



this was absolutely the correct Fresh Prince screenshot to use.

It's fun when you're just not around many teenagers, so all the 'teenagers' you see are actors in their mid-20s on TV or movies. Whenever I see an actual teenager I'm always like "What is this ten-year old doing here?"

A few years ago, I was listening to an interview on television about how "teens" on television are played by actors in their mid-20s. Basically, no one wants to see ACTUAL 15 year olds make out because it's just awkward and weird. The solution is to have 24 year olds make out and pretend they're 15.

Having seen 15 year olds, I can see the sense in this.

I'm still young enough to plan a teenager in a movie!

This is hilarious. I remember being a teenager and being painfully aware that no one around me even faintly resembled the supposed teens on 90210. It's kind of a dilemma, because it seems like the choices are to either have teens watch shows where their supposed peers are portrayed only by people completely past the awkward stage (unfortunate) or have teens working full time in entertainment careers (also usually unfortunate).

Thank god they cast adults as teenagers on TV or I would feel like a creep watching all my favorite shows like Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries.

When I started watching Freaks and Geeks, I was shocked that John Francis Daley was actually 14, like his character. He looked like a baby! It's part of what makes that show such a realistic depiction of teenagerdom.

Its sister Tumblr, Very Young TV Parents, is good too: http://veryyoungtvparents.tumblr.com/ The doctor on "Home Fires" apparently became a dad at sixteen, going by actor age!

(I started looking about thirty when I was thirteen and was never able to play a realistic teenager. It's a pity I was such a goody-goody- I could have bought so many illegal cigarettes and drinks! At least I wasn't that one kid who carried a briefcase to every class.)

Oh good lord the 'actual teenage' pic of Charming Tater.

This sent me down the Old Loves rabbit hole. OF COURSE Ethan Hawke's response to being put on the public naughty step for cheating on Uma Thurman with the babysitter was

“People have such a childish view of monogamy and fidelity. 'He’s cheated so he’s bad, she’s cheated so she’s bad,’ as opposed to a recognition that our species is not monogamous,” he continued. “To act all indignant, that your world has been rocked because your lover wasn’t faithful to you, is a little bit like acting rocked that your hair went grey.” He added "Human beings are sexual beings."

YES GRAY HAIR AND MARITAL INFIDELITY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME THING BECAUSE BONERSCIENCE.

I loved him so much in fifth grade when I saw Dead Poets Society and now the sanctity of my many, many bad poems are sullied by that undeodorized toad.

ALSO that 17 year old pic of Leonardo Di Caprio!! He looks 12! It would be legal to have sex with him at that age in the UK, that is not right!

Go and watch We Are The Best, everyone! Not only does it has teenagers who act like actual 13 year olds, they are also played by teenagers and they look so small, because we're used to seeing 13 year olds played by 16 or 17 year olds. You think "Wow, they're just children!" It's weird to think that you'd forget what a teenager actually looks like, but there we are.

Paul Walker was in She's All That??

Edit: Also Li'l Kim?!

I've started watching Veronica Mars with the lad and it's striking how Not Actual Teens Pretending to be Teens they all are. Esp as we have an actual 12 yr old in the house to provide a point of contrast.

I don't even know who most of these people are, but I am HYPNOTISED.*

*Correct non-USA spelling of this word COME AT ME.

fyi: i have been at work for 45 minutes and gotten exactly zero work done. less to be done shortly...