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# 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's All Grown Up|versa]]. Of course this won't happen if you've already been through puberty.
# [[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 [[Totally Eighteen|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.
# Most successful teen actors—i.e the ones with the most experience and impressive resumes -- [[Teens Are Short|tend to be physically smaller than other actors]], and look younger than their actual age, because they are the child-analogues of '''Dawson Casting''' (due to more experience, more able to remember lines, less likely to go completely [[Off the Rails]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|on some random whim]], etc.), better-suited to playing younger children than real children would be.
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