Gus: I clipped out ...
- One Life To Lives River Carpenter, All My Childrens Danielle Frye, and General Hospital's Brook Lynn Ashton were born in the early to mid 90s. But in 2004, they are all teenagers.
... for discussion.
This seems to be about actors commonly being older than the roles they play, rather than a character being artifically accelerated in aging.
There is an interesting trope, though, around the idea that shows with a lot of teenaged characters are frequently populated with actors in their early twenties. This probably has to do with child-labor laws that curtail the amount of on-set time for a minor. I'll crack open
TV Teen as a place to put the conventions the audience has grown to expect on that topic.
Idle Dandy: Those characters were indeed all
SORA Sed. Danielle was born in 1993, I think, and now she's 18 or 19. Pretty much every teenager on ABC Daytime should be about 6 years old.
The two Kaitlin Cooper's on the OC are played by actresses of the same age (both were born in 1991, according to IMDB). This is an "Other Darrin" situation, not a SORAS.
Bring The Noise: Not sure if this belongs here, in a different category or in a new trope: Cordelia in
Angel. Same actress as in
Buffy but treated as if she was a lot closer to Charisma Carpenter's age than she was before switching shows. In the first season, for example, she is seen going into bars with not problems, even though she would be no older than 19 (and while Buffy was being spectacularly
Anvilicious about bars with characters who were supposedly the same age).
KJMackley: I took out all of the
Star Wars examples because ultimately they weren't about this trope. People don't go from baby to toddler/adult within weeks and time spans between movies are clearly stated. Padme hid her pregnancy with her choice in clothing in Revenge of the Sith, Anakin goes from 9 to 19 with a change of actors. Natalie Portman played a 14 year old when she was 15/16 then a 24 year old when she was 18/19 and even then that is a version of
Dawson Casting, not this trope. Everyone else are adults aging 7 years in real life with the movies covering 13 years.
