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[[File:gertrude.jpg|frame|Don't get too excited. She's got a kid who's, like, [[Writers Cannot Do Math|thirty]].]]
{{quote|''Hamlet's mother will not be played by a woman who could have gone to high school with the actor playing Hamlet. At least not without rather a lot of aging makeup!''
Due to [[Double Standard]]s concerning age and perceived attractiveness, adult male characters are usually played by actors of about the character's age, but female characters of middle age and older are often played by actresses noticeably younger than the character should be. This becomes jarring when a character's mother, or a woman otherwise stated to be of of an older generation, is played by someone only slightly older—or, in some cases, ''younger''—than him.
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== Fan Works ==
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6269272/1/Tekken_Movie_2010_Asukas_Revenge Tekken Movie 2010: Asuka's Revenge]'' is, as the name suggests, a rewrite of the 2010 live-action ''[[Tekken]]'' movie with Asuka as the main character. The author even provides a "cast list" with characters that were in the actual movie being played by the same actors and the author providing casting for anyone who wasn't. His choice of actress to play Michelle Chang is actually three years ''younger'' than the one playing her adopted daughter Julia (canonically nearly 20 years Michelle's junior). Overlaps with [[Dawson Casting]] as both actresses are closer to Michelle's age than to Julia's.
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* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' was accused of this when it cast Mike Farrell as John Slattery's father. Though in fact the two are just barely far apart enough in age for this to be reasonable; it's just that Farrell looks very good for his age.
* In ''[[Good Times]]'', John Amos was only 34 when the show began, making him only 8 years older than his "son" Jimmie Walker(J.J.) and ''19 years younger'' than his "wife" Esther Rolle (Florida)
* Whitman Mayo was only 40 when he was cast as Grady Wilson on ''[[Sanford and Son]]''.
* Tony Goldwyn played Vincent D'Onofrio's older brother on ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]''. Goldwyn is a year younger than D'Onofrio.
* ''[[Kath and Kim]]'' has an interesting version of this. Kath is supposed to be in her 50s, though her actress is about a decade younger. Her daughter Kim is supposed to be in her mid-to-late 20s, but is played by an actress who is pushing 50.
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