Age-gap in relationships are becoming more talked about in this age of appropriate awareness in consent and laws that protect minors from being in relationship with adults. But since a long time movie couple and TV actors acted with on screen partners who had a huge age-gap in real life.
While watching these movies or show we might not have realized the age-gap but later when we get the knowledge it becomes a major self-aware point especially when actors play couple.
Although they are actors and acting but the conscious decision to watch the movie even after knowing the age-gap is not a good decision. Here are 17 such TV shows and movie couple with huge age gap in real life.
29 Movie And TV Show Couple Who Had A Huge Age-Gap In Real Life
We have listed 17 Movie and TV show couples who had a huge age-gap in real life.
Hillary Duff And Chad Micheal Murray In A Cinderella Story
In ‘A Cinderella Story’, Chad Michael Murray was 22-years-old while Hillary Duff was just 15. In later 5 sequels of the movie she did not star.
Corbin Bleu And Monique Coleman In High School Musical
In the first High School Musical film, Monique Coleman was 25 years old while her reel boyfriend, Corbin Bleu was just 16.
Sasha Pieterse And Ryan Merriman In Pretty Little Liars
Sasha Pieterse was just 13 years old when she started filming the TV show ‘Pretty Little Liars.’ And when she was 14 her character has romantic relation with a 26-year-old actor Ryan Merriman on the show. Although it was acting it still feels wrong now that we know about the age-gap.
Bill Murray And Scarlett Johansson In Lost In Transition
In the movie Lost In Translation Scarlett Johansson was just 18 years old while Bill Murray was 52. Johansson played the love interest of Bill Murray with an age-gap of 36 years. The director of the movie, Sofia Coppola addressed the age-gap saying, “Part of the story is about how you can have romantic connections that aren’t sexual or physical. You can have crushes on people where it isn’t that kind of thing. Part of the idea was that you can have connections where you can’t be together for various reasons because you’re at different points in life.”
Love Actually
In Love Actually, Kiera Knightley was 18-year-old while her reel husband, Chiwetel Ejiofor was 26.
Jurassic Park
Laura Dern played the love interest of Sam Neill in the Jurassic Park movie when she was 23 and he 42.
Laura Dern remembering the filming of the movie says that the age-gap at that time ‘felt completely appropriate,” while speaking to The Times. She adds, “And it was only now, when we returned in a moment of cultural awareness about the patriarchy, that I was like, ‘Wow! We’re not the same age?’”
Margot Robbie And Will Smith In Focus
Margot Robbie was 24 when she filmed the movie Focus with co-star, Will Smith who was 46 at the time. Margot Robbie spoke to E! Online sharing her experience on-screen filming kissing scenes with Will Smith she said that he used “really lovely breath spray” that smelled like Christmas.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Margot Robbie was 23 when he played the character of ‘Naomi’ wife to ‘Jordan’ played by 39-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street. According to Olivia Wilde, 27, when she auditioned for the role of ‘Naomi’ she was told she was too “sophisticated” for the role but believes she was rejected for her age.
Third Person
While Olivia Wilde did not get the role in The Wolf of Wall Street but she played the love interest of Liam Neeson who was 61-year-old while she was 29 in the movie Third Person.
Starstruck
In Starstruck, Danielle Campbell played love interest of Sterling Knight who was 20 while she was just 14. This explains why the couple did not kiss in the movie.
Ted
In the movie Ted, Mila Kunis, 28 played the love interest of Mark Wahlberg, who was 41-year-old with an age difference of 13 years. Mila Kunis said in a podcast she aged into the movie’s role “He [director Seth MacFarlane] was casting it for a while before Wahlberg signed on, but even once Wahlberg signed on, he was casting other women… And then all of the sudden I started getting older and older and older. And in Hollywood, I now can play opposite Mark Wahlberg, magically…”
Ted 2
In Ted 2, Mark Wahlberg was 44 while his love interest stayed in the same age bracket as Amanda Seyfried was 29 while filming the movie. Mila Kunis role was given to Seyfried as she was pregnant at the time.
Get Smart
Anne Hathaway played the love interest of Steve Carrell, 45 when she was 25 in Get Smart.
Malcolm & Marie
In the movie Malcolm & Marie, Zendaya was 24 playing the love interest of John David Washington, 36. Speaking abouth the age-gap in the movie, Zendaya said “I’ve played a 16-year-old since I was 16. You have to remember people also grew up with me as a child.”
While Sam Levinson, director of the movie said, “In fairness, [the age gap is] something that historically happens a lot in films with older male actors and younger female ones and it often has nothing to do with the story. I’m just not sure the criticism is applicable to this particular project because [the age difference] is part of its DNA.”
Entrapment
Sean Connery was 68 when Catherine Zeta-Jones, 29 played his love interest in Entrapment.A whopping 39 years age difference.
Gangster Squad
In Gangster Squad, Emma Stone, 25 played the love interest of two older men, Sean Penn, 53 and Ryan Gosling, 33.
Crazy Heart
Maggie Gyllenhaal was 32 when she played the lover of Jeff Bridges, 60. Maggie Gyllenhaal talked about ageism in Hollywood after being told she was “too old” to play lover to a 55-year-old man. She said, “There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood that surprise me all the time. I’m 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made feel angry, and then it made me laugh.”
Conclusion
Which age difference between movie couple or TV actor shocked you the most, let us know. What are your thoughts about minors acting love interest for adults? Do you this it should be allowed in today’s day and age?
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