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# The pressures of stardom are harder for a teen actor to handle than a young adult. An actor in his or her twenties is less likely to leave a show after one season (or film series after one entry) to focus on his or her education than an actual teenager is.
# It's easier to see the difference between a teen and a young adult if you are a teen or young adult. Casting directors are often middle-aged or older; to them a 16-year-old ''doesn't'' look noticeably younger than a 21-year-old.
# Puberty tends to be extremely fickle; a cute 14-year old can transform into a gawky, gangly 16-year old with rather shocking celerity. [[Hollywood Nerd|Or vice]] [[She
# [[Paedo Hunt|Obscenity and child porn laws.]] In the US, it's generally illegal to do anything that even simulates sex on film<ref>And in many countries, even in animation.</ref> unless everyone involved is 18 or older. Therefore, having older actors allows the filmmakers to depict various acts on camera that would get them thrown in jail if the actors were underage.
# Related to the above, this allows for [[Fan Service]], which is legal as long as it's non-nude.
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* In the 1974 Werner Herzog film ''Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle'' (also known as ''The enigma of Kaspar Hauser''), the lead role of about-16-year old Kaspar Hauser was played by 41-year old street musician Bruno S. Herzog has commented that he was chosen for the role because his life had parallels with that of the historical Kaspar Hauser, and also because he gave the impression of being outsider to society at large, one that was a stranger to his own body.
* ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]:'' Moaning Myrtle (a ghost who died in her teens) was played by then-''37-year old'' [[Shirley Henderson]] in ''Chamber of Secrets'' (her being a ghost, her appearance thusly being quite worked-over already and somewhat obscured by the opticals involved, probably helped hide the fact).
** A convoluted example involves Tom Riddle, who [[Timeshifted Actor|appears as a 16-year old]] in two films made seven years apart. In ''[[Harry Potter
** ''[[Harry Potter
* [[Michael J. Fox]] played the teen-aged Marty McFly of the ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'' films into his late twenties, having done the first film when he was twenty-three. The actors playing Marty's parents and Biff, appearing as teenagers in the 1955 scenes, had similar ages.
* Parodied in ''[[Scary Movie]]''. In a "If this were a movie" conversation, one character says "We'd be played by actors in their late 20s/early 30s". The characters then pause for a moment, letting the phrase sink in.
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** The new series two-parter The Doctor Dances/The Empty Child has a subversion. {{spoiler|Nancy, played by 21-year old Florence Hoath, appears to be about 16, having a 5-year old [[Creepy Child|"little brother"]] and helping out a band of homeless children. The Doctor realizes she is actually about twenty, old enough to be the boy's mummy.}}
* The spinoff ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' features 20-year old Daniel Anthony as 14-year old Clyde Langer and 18-year old Anjli Mohindra as 15-year old Rani Chandra.
* ''[[
* Melissa Joan Hart started playing 16-year old ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' when she was 19-20 (depending on when it started filming, she was 20 when it first aired). By its final season she was 27, though by then she'd been going to college and then on to a career in journalism.
** This is actually a good example of how the line ''blurs'' as actors and characters grow older, although this effect only happens in works where the ''characters'' age roughly in realtime.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Tedd from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' invokes this in an [[B
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