Why do teenagers always look 20 something years old in TV shows?

Why do teenagers always look 20 something years old in TV shows?

Because the actors playing them are typically that age.

Why not get actual teenagers?

This. Jesus Christ OP, just how fucking stupid are you?

>dumbass

But Mila Kunis was 14 when That '70s Show started.

>tfw Ashton Kutcher was banging 14 yr old Mila and then ended up marrying her and impregnating her two decades later
Why do we bother living?

and she is the only one who legit looks like a teenager.

>impregnating her two decades past her prime

For several reasons, one of the biggest being more work to deal with.

Child Labor laws suck

but mila was a teenager.

>More work
It's because if you're going to do a show about sex you better make sure the actors are old.

Yeah one teen you can work around. If all the main cast were teens it would be a nightmare scheduling wise.

>work
Stop with this bullshit. They have Disney shows with teenagers somehow don't they, they just don't have any sex in them. If you're gonna make a show about teens having sex you can't cast teens, that simple. No one knew Mila was that young, she lied

Because nearly all of them are.

Child stars are shit. Teenage stars are usually shit.

They usually get young-looking 20somethings to play teenagers.. They particularly like getting people with the Gary Coleman disease to play kids. That way they can have like a grown adult who's actually a decent actor playing like an 9 year old like Brick in The Middle or Webster.

Not to mention when they're hiring minors to play minors they need to get their financial guardians to sign off on their contracts and manage the minor's pay, which frequently can turn out disastrous. It's better to have someone who's legally an adult play teenagers.

>If you're gonna make a show about teens having sex you can't cast teens
Wrong. The actor who played McLovin' in Superbad was underage and has a sex scene (sort of). His mom had to approve and be on-set while they were filming though.

Labor laws, for one thing. Minors have limited working hours in acting just as they do in any other job.

Another is that teenagers grow up fast. From beginning to end of a season, a fifteen year old can totally change in size & appearance. A twenty year old is more physically stable - they're not shooting up three or four inches in a year and having the whole shape of their face change in a few months anymore.

But it'w weird when they are being spoken to look kids and the look like young adults.

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Nice just nice.

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the commentary goes into some detail about how careful they had to be with the sex scene and how he wasnt allowed in the room when they were filiming the dick drawings

Why was Alex Jones in that seventies show?

>Macaulay Culkin was privileged to destroy prime Kunis cunt

>skirts around child labor laws
>most child/teen actors are terrible, both preforming and to work with
>20 somethings probably have more acting experience, as well as dating, sex, school, jobs
>this comes of more natural when its part of the story
remember back to how awkward you were at 15-16? People dont want to un-ironically watch that. Alexis beldel played teens well into her mid twenties but actually looked the part so nobody noticed

Look what it did to him though

>Disney shows
much different then a sitcome or adult themed show. They want it kid friendly and cheesy vs something like that 70s show were kids are having sex, going to parties, breaking the laws, ect. Which is ironic considering all the things those disney stars are exposed to and later become sluts and drug addicts

It was way worse in the 80's. No one ever looked believable.

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It's funny how the stars of that 70's show became more normal than disney stars when they grew up.

Then why did Donna morph into a transvestite?

Donna looks better now then she did in the 90's.

Second part, perfect example,. TWD, Carls only supposed to be 2 years or so older, the actor is now 7 years older...

This

Apparently any scene at night in That 70s Show was a huge pain in the ass to film, because child labour laws said they couldn't make underage actors work at night

Mia was 14 when she auditioned for the show so she was a teen for half the series

directors know they'll end up being diddled juat like Reese was in MItM.

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