Dawson Casting: Difference between revisions

* All of the teenagers in ''[[Casper (film)|Casper]]'' were played by people between the ages of 13 and 15 (including the voice actor for the titular character), and the {{spoiler|temporarily revived Casper}} is played by a 17-year-old. For somebody used to Dawson Casting in movies, the sight of an entire classroom of teenagers who ''actually look like teenagers'' is actually rather jarring.

* The live action adaptation of ''[[The Last Airbender]]'' both plays this straight and subverts it. Jackson Rathbone (Sokka) was 25 playing 15 and Dev Patel (Zuko) was 19 playing 16, but both Noah Ringer (Aang) and Nicola Peltz (Katara) were the same age as their characters during filming (12 and 14 respectively).

* ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' largely kept the actors relatively close to their ages - Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich) was fifteen playing fourteen, Heather Menzies (Louisa) fourteen playing thirteen, Duane Chase (Kurt) thirteen playing eleven, Angela Cartwright (Brigitta) twelve playing ten, Debbie Turner (Marta) eight playing seven, and Kym Karath (Gretl) six playing five. Played utterly straight, however, with Charmian Carr (Liesl), who was ''twenty-one'' playing sixteen-going-on-seventeen.

* In ''[[Another Cinderella Story]]'', [[Selena Gomez]] was 15 and playing a 15-year-old high schooler. Critics were squicked that Drew Seeley, who played her love interest, was 24, but the movie makes it clear that his character really is that age.

* Borderline case: Most of the actors playing students in ''[[Sky High (film)|Skyhigh]]'' were between 17 and 19 at the time of the film's release, although many of them played high school freshmen.

* In the 2010 version of ''[[True Grit]]'', then 13 year old [[Hailee Steinfeld]] played 14 year old Mattie Ross.

* [[Mandy Moore]] was 18 when she played high school student Jamie in ''[[A Walk to Remember]]'', though her also high school aged love interest was played by Shane West, who was 21 at the time.

* Walking the line in ''[[Mystery Team]]''; the actors are in their early twenties, and their characters are high school seniors.