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* In ''[[Bunraku]]'', teenage Momoko is portrayed by 25 year old Emily Kaiho, who sort of pulls it off by being fresh-faced and [[Teens Are Short|petite]].

** Much is made of how Yoshi is the youngest of the protagonists, and inexperienced and hot-headed as a result. [[Gackt]] meanwhile is pushing forty (but looks twenty years younger).

* Not sure if straight or inverted: In Oliver Stone's ''Alexander'', Colin Farrell plays Alexander, and Angelina Jolie plays his mother despite being nearly the same age. Diana Cook of ''[[Cracked.com]]'' calls out ''Alexander'' in #2 of "[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-unwritten-rules-hollywood-needs-to-stop-following/ 5 Unwritten Rules Hollywood Needs to Stop Following]".

* Deliberately played with in ''[[A Stupid and Futile Gesture]]'', the 2018 [[Biopic]] about ''[[National Lampoon]]'' co-founder Doug Kenney. Kenney, who died in his thirties, is portrayed in the film by ''two'' different actors -- Martin Mull [[Narrator|narrates]] the film as a never-to-exist [[Grumpy Old Man|elder version of Kenney]], while on-screen, the twenty-something Kenney is played forty-something Will Forte; this latter casting is explicitly [[Lampshaded]] when a rapid [[Crawl]] appears in the middle of the movie listing its creative liberties, starting with the age disparity.

** On the behind-the-scenes parts of the [[Series Finale]] movie, James Van Der Beek was amused that it was the first time he and Dawson were the same age (because there was a five-year time skip from the last episode to the movie).

* The Creek was not the worst offender. That title might well go to ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', where the tenth-graders (16-year-olds) were played by Nicholas Brendon as Xander (25), [[Alyson Hannigan]] as Willow (22) and [[Charisma Carpenter]] (26, making Carpenter the same age as her teacher played by Robia LaMorte. Possibly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when Wesley first meets her and mistakes her for a teacher.). On the show's spinoff, ''[[Angel]]'', the role of Angel's 16-year-old son Connor was portrayed by then-22-year-old Vincent Kartheiser.

** Also Oz and Jonathan, played by 23-year-olds [[Seth Green]] and Danny Strong. Also appearing was 26-year-old Jason Hall as 18-year-old Devon. Though the show did feature 18-year-old Mercedes McNab as a teenaged Harmony later in its run.

** [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]], who was 19 when she began playing a 16-year-old Buffy, was the only one of the leads who was actually (just about) a teenager at the time of her casting.