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* A mermaid character was cut completely from ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie''. She was played by a 15-year-old actress who would have had GodivaHair. [[https://lostmediawiki.com/Turbo:_A_Power_Rangers_Movie_(lost_deleted_scenes_of_film;_1997) She was also supposed]] to be a LoveInterest for Adam. Given the DawsonCasting for the Rangers themselves, it resulted in JailbaitTaboo if you consider cast age rather than characters.
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* ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'': The [[Film/BeverlyHillsCopIII third film in the series]] states Axl Foley to be in his early thirties. This lines up with Creator/EddieMurphy's age, but although Foley being a detective despite his wrecklessness and insubordination is [[RuleOfFunny the whole point]], his having been promoted that far in his early 20s is probably even less realistic.
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* ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'': The [[Film/BeverlyHillsCopIII third film in Creator/EddieMurphy was 22 years old playing the series]] states Axl Foley to be in his early thirties. This lines up with Creator/EddieMurphy's age, but although Foley being a seasoned Detroit detective despite his wrecklessness and insubordination is [[RuleOfFunny the whole point]], his having been promoted that far in his early 20s is probably even less realistic.Axl Foley.
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** In a similar note for Jones, ''Film/SpaceCowboys'' begins with a prologue where Jones' character is a pilot and budding astronaut in his twenties in 1958, meaning he's pushing 70 in the present-day setting of the film. Jones was not yet a teenager in 1958; as other movies like ''Men In Black'', the film uses Jones being YoungerThanHeLooks to fit him in at an older age bracket, since at age 54, Jones would still be in a reasonable enough age to be an astronaut.
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* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'': Creator/LeaThompson, who plays Lorraine Baines-[=McFly=], is just nine ''days'' older than Creator/MichaelJFox, who plays her onscreen son Marty. Although the first film mainly takes place in 1955, at the time when she's the same age as Marty, making this a justified trope. In the DVDCommentary, they noted how unusual it was to have the same actor play their older and younger selves instead of using a TimeShiftedActor.
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* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'': Creator/LeaThompson, who plays Lorraine Baines-[=McFly=], is just nine ''days'' older than Creator/MichaelJFox, who plays her onscreen son Marty. Although the first film mainly takes place in 1955, at the time when she's the same age as Marty, while the scenes set in 1985 have her wearing prosthetic makeup to look middle aged, making this a justified trope. In the DVDCommentary, they noted how unusual it was to have the same actor play their older and younger selves instead of using a TimeShiftedActor.
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* In ''Film/Annihilation2018'', main character Lena is introduced as a [=PhD=] of Biology teaching a class about cancer. It would likely take at least ten years to complete the Undergraduate and Graduate program to earn her Doctorate. Considering Natalie Portman was in her mid-30s at the time of filming, this wouldn't normally be a problem. However, her backstory ALSO includes ''another'' six years of being a grunt in the military prior to starting college. If everything went ideally for her where she started college immediately after being discharged and then spent the next ten years in school and graduated on time, she should ''just'' be getting into her professional career as a freshly minted Biologist [=PhD=]. However, all of the story beats imply that she's been a professional in this field for a little while.
* Creator/AngelaLansbury was only three years older than the actor playing her son in the 1962 adaptation of ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate''.
* Creator/SallyField played Creator/TomHanks' mother in ''Film/ForrestGump'', though she's only ten years older than him. Granted, the two didn't share the screen together much since many of her scenes are flashbacks to when he was younger. Once it came time for them to act off one another, Field was in old-lady makeup while Hanks was invoking DawsonCasting by playing a man in his 20s.
* In ''Film/SupermanReturns'', ComicBook/LoisLane is played by Creator/KateBosworth, who was only 22 years old and looked it. She was supposed to be an experienced reporter with a Pulitzer or two under her belt, not to mention a kindergarten-age son. Creator/BrandonRouth ([[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]]) was in his mid-20s during production. The most problematic part of all this is that the movie is supposed to take place five years after the events of ''Film/SupermanII'', which makes these characters 35 at the very minimum.
* The Franchise/{{Batman}} movies ''love'' casting young women as professionals that should be at least ten years older:
** Creator/NicoleKidman was 27 when she played Dr Chase Meridian in ''Film/BatmanForever'' and looked younger at times. She's far too young to be a renowned criminal psychologist who consults with the police; realistically she probably wouldn't have finished her [=PhD=] yet, plus it takes around a decade or more to become a qualified clinical psychologist, so it's highly unlikely she'd have her own practice or be experienced enough to be considered an expert in her field. Originally, Creator/ReneRusso was cast as Chase; at 40, her age was far more fitting for the character, but Russo got booted for being "too old" next to Creator/ValKilmer (he's only five years younger).
** In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Dr. Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy has a [=PhD=] and a career as a botanist, meaning she would be in her late 20s at the youngest but is most likely in her 30s, and her comments toward Robin suggest that she sees him as the proverbial Younger Man. Creator/UmaThurman was only 26 during filming; she was still older than Chris O'Donnell (Robin)...by about two months.
** Creator/KatieHolmes played an assistant district attorney in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' despite being 25 years old during filming. If Rachel Dawes had gone to law school straight out of college, she'd have graduated at 24 or 25. It's unlikely given her youth and inexperience that she'd be handling cases--especially major, high-profile ones--on her own. Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal, who replaced her for ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', is only a year older, though she is at least YoungerThanSheLooks.
%%* In ''Film/FantasticBeasts'', protagonist Newt Scamander, played by Creator/EddieRedmayne, is nine years younger than his brother Theseus. The actor who plays Theseus, Callum Turner, is eight years younger than Redmayne.
* In ''Film/{{Oldboy 2003}}'', the actor who plays Lee Woo-jin, Yoo Ji-tae, was born in 1976, while a scene in which his character is a teenager takes place in 1979. However, this can be interpreted as Woo-jin being so obsessed with revenge that he doesn't move on, stuck in his youth, and looks younger than he should be.
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'':
** Creator/SeanConnery plays Dr. Henry Jones, Sr., father of Henry Jones, Jr., or Indiana Jones, who is played by Creator/HarrisonFord. However, Connery is only 12 years older than Ford (Connery was born in 1930, Ford in 1942), even if his baldness and white beard makes him look significantly older.
** Alison Doody was 21 when she was cast as Dr. Elsa Schneider, [[VagueAge and although her age wasn't stated onscreen]], she would have to be at least 30 to have her credentials as an experienced archaeologist.
* ''Film/TheBourneSeries'':
** Creator/JuliaStiles played Nicky Parsons, one of Jason Bourne's field handlers on an extremely sensitive mission and apparently has beyond Top Secret clearance given what she is involved in (monitoring all of the Treadstone field agents). In other words, significantly more dangerous to the Agency than Bourne is if she screws up, or if something was missed in her vetting and she is less than 100% loyal. When ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' was released, Stiles was a very young looking ''21''. There's an attempted HandWave in ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'' when Nicky explains [[OlderThanSheLooks her cover was an exchange student studying in Paris]].
** The latest film in the series ''Film/JasonBourne'' has this problem as well, with Creator/AliciaVikander, in her 20s, playing a high-ranking CIA official, who concludes the film angling for an even ''higher'' position.
* Any incarnation of ComicBook/HarleyQuinn really counts, since she's always presented as a very young (or at least, childlike in manner and appearance) character, despite the fact that she held an M.D., specialised in psychiatry, and was experienced enough to be allowed to spend time alone with highly dangerous patients - meaning that she would presumably be in her mid-thirties at the youngest by the time she became ComicBook/TheJoker's moll, and she was by his side for at least a few years. The version of her in ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' has to take the cake, though, as she is played by the Creator/MargotRobbie, in her mid-20s, who in real life would be ''just about'' finishing med school and choosing her specialty at that age, and wouldn't be let loose unsupervised on a prisoner of the Joker's calibre for years to come. And unlike some other professions on this list, psychiatry is one that is very difficult for "teen genius" types to get into early, since it requires not just raw intelligence but rigorous demonstrations of mental and emotional maturity. One depiction tried to explain away her getting to where she is with the excuse that she slept with her professor for good grades. SextraCredit may explain ''one'' professor, but not the entire psychiatry program.
** ''Suicide Squad'' also has examples in the couple Rick Flag and June Moone (aka the Enchantress). Flag is a colonel, a rank probably expected for someone older than 35-year-old Creator/JoelKinnaman; June is referred to as "Doctor", meaning she has spent at least a decade studying to get a Ph.D in archaeology, and yet her actress, Creator/CaraDelevingne, was only in her early 20s
** ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'' attempts to square the circle with Harley by establishing that she is, in fact, [[OlderThanTheyLook a decent amount older than Robbie's actual age]].
* In ''Film/DaysOfThunder'', then-22-year-old Creator/NicoleKidman played a full-fledged neurosurgeon. At that age, she would be at most only halfway through medical school. Even coming from a country that doesn't require a college degree before entering medical school, she would still only be fresh out of school.
* ''Film/TheInsider'': 33-year-old Creator/RussellCrowe plays Dr. Jeffrey Wigand. The real Wigand was 50 when the events of the movie happened and is three years older than Lowell Bergman, whereas Crowe is 24 years younger than Creator/AlPacino (who plays Bergman in the movie).
* Franchise/JamesBond:
** ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' was much mocked for having its main BondGirl, Dr. Christmas Jones, played by then 28-year-old Creator/DeniseRichards and looking even younger, be supposedly a world-renowned nuclear physicist. What makes it stand out even more is that Dr. Arkov was clearly in his fifties.
** In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', [[BigBad Lyutsifer Safin]] reveals that [[spoiler: he was the assassin sent to kill Madeline Swan and her mother when she was a child, meaning he was an adult and a trained killer 20+ years ago, so he should be at least in his mid-40s in the present day]]. Safin's actor Creator/RamiMalek was 38 during filming, only four years older than Dr. Swan's actress Creator/LeaSeydoux, and thanks to his naturally boyish features, he doesn't even look ''that'' old.
* In ''Film/{{Willow}}'', in a rare reversal of the common practice of adults being cast as teenagers, then 17-year-old Creator/WarwickDavis played a married man with small children.
* Ultimately inverted by ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'', where the 80-year-old J. Paul Getty was originally portrayed by 58-year-old Creator/KevinSpacey with the aid of aging makeup... until [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor Spacey's sexual scandals erased him from the movie]] [[TheOtherMarty and he was replaced with]] Creator/ChristopherPlummer, who at age 88 was five years older than Getty was when he died!
* In ''Film/MenInBlack'', Creator/TommyLeeJones had just turned 50 when he first played Agent Kay, who'd served in the MIB since the early 1960s, which should've put him at least in his early 60s. WordOfGod had considered casting Creator/ClintEastwood, who would've fit the right age, before casting Jones.
** In a similar note for Jones, ''Film/SpaceCowboys'' begins with a prologue where Jones' character is a pilot and budding astronaut in his twenties in 1958, meaning he's pushing 70 in the present-day setting of the film. Jones was not yet a teenager in 1958; as other movies like ''Men In Black'', the film uses Jones being YoungerThanHeLooks to fit him in at an older age bracket, since at age 54, Jones would still be in a reasonable enough age to be an astronaut.
* ''Film/TheKarateKidPartIII'': While Terry Silver is a Vietnam War veteran who is close in age to John Kreese, Thomas Ian Griffith was 25 at the time of filming, making him 16 years younger than Creator/MartinKove, and four months younger than Creator/RalphMacchio, who is playing an 18-year-old Daniel [=LaRusso=]. This would continue when Griffith reprised his role as Silver for the fourth season of ''Series/CobraKai'', though there his [[SilverFox silver hair]] combined with Macchio's still [[OlderThanTheyLook relatively youthful looking face]] means Silver does look closer in age to Kreese (75-year-old Kove) than to Daniel (59-year-old Macchio). To cap things off, Nick Marini, who plays young Terry Silver in flashbacks in ''Cobra Kai'', was older at the time of filming his scenes in season 3 than Griffith was during the filming of ''The Karate Kid Part III''.
* In ''Film/LadiesOfTheChorus'', Adele Jergens (then-31) was eight years and a half older than Creator/MarilynMonroe (then-22), and played the mother of Marilyn's character.
* ''Film/Shaft2019'': Despite being a sequel to ''Film/Shaft2000'', Creator/RichardRoundtree's Shaft is retconned into being Creator/SamuelLJackson's Shaft's father, instead of his uncle like in the 2000 film. Jackson is only 7 years younger than Roundtree.
* A mermaid character was cut completely from ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie''. She was played by a 15-year-old actress who would have had GodivaHair. [[https://lostmediawiki.com/Turbo:_A_Power_Rangers_Movie_(lost_deleted_scenes_of_film;_1997) She was also supposed]] to be a LoveInterest for Adam. Given the DawsonCasting for the Rangers themselves, it resulted in JailbaitTaboo if you consider cast age rather than characters.
* ''Film/TheRoom2003'': Johnny's fiance Lisa is implied to be at least in her late twenties, since they've been together for seven years, but Juliette Danielle was twenty-two at the time of filming next to Creator/TommyWiseau in his late forties. This is apparently a result of the original actress for Lisa dropping out, and Juliette Danielle (who'd been cast as Michelle) getting bumped up.
* Creator/KeiraKnightley in ''Film/LoveActually'' plays a woman getting married, and [[Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor her husband]] and [[Creator/AndrewLincoln other love interest]] were in their late twenties and early thirties respectively. She was eighteen, and had in fact been playing her real age in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', ''Film/BendItLikeBeckham'' and ''Film/TheHole'' just before.
* Creator/JenniferLawrence in ''Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook'' plays a woman who has been married for several years and is the love interest of thirty-seven-year-old Creator/BradleyCooper. She was twenty-one. The role was originally meant for Creator/AnneHathaway, who was the slightly more believable age of twenty-eight.
* In ''Film/{{Harakiri}}'', Creator/TatsuyaNakadai plays a man who has an adult daughter and an infant grandson, at only 30.
* Creator/BlakeLively was 23 when she was cast as Carol Ferris in ''Film/GreenLantern2011'', yet several lines imply she's the same age as Hal Jordan (played by 35-year-old Creator/RyanReynolds) and Hector Hammond (39-year-old Creator/PeterSarsgaard), the latter of whom was a professor.
* In ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', Harrison Young plays a character in his 70s who had served in D-Day. Young was 14 when the actual invasion occurred
* In ''Film/HouseOfGucci'', 35-year-old Music/LadyGaga and 37-year-old Creator/AdamDriver played a 47-year-old Patrizia Reggiani and 46-year-old Maurizio Gucci, respectively.
* ''Film/TheTrumanShow'': Christof is the producer of the eponymous show, watching over Truman since he was born 30 years earlier. However, he's played by Creator/EdHarris, who was only in his late 40s at the time. This is because Creator/DennisHopper, who was in his 60s at the time, [[TheOtherMarty had originally been cast as Christof before being replaced by Harris during production]].
* This became a bit of a problem in the Film/XMenFilmSeries. For some inexplicable reason, each of the post-reboot films involved a ten-year TimeSkip from the previous one. It wasn't so bad going from ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' to ''Film/DaysOfFuturePast''; ten years passed and the returning characters were roughly the same age as their actors. But in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', another ten years pass. Xavier, Magneto, and Moira [=MacTaggart=] were pushing 50 while their actors were in their 30s during filming. Havok and Beast would be at least 40 while their actors were in their mid-20s, and Havok and Cyclops' mother doesn't look nearly old enough for her eldest son to be middle-aged.[[note]]The massive liberties taken with the Summers family are a different story altogether.[[/note]] In fact, some have pointed out that ''Film/DarkPhoenix'', which takes place in the 90s, should have featured the older actors from the original trilogy, since the first film in the series, ''Film/XMen1'', came out in 2000.
* In ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'', Tim's father Harry is played by Creator/RyanReynolds, who is only 19 years older than Creator/JusticeSmith. While obviously not impossible, Harry would have been quite a young dad.
* In ''Film/BoyzNTheHood'', Creator/LaurenceFishburne plays the father of Creator/CubaGoodingJr's character, even though the actors are only 7 years apart. This was mocked in the parody film ''Film/DontBeAMenaceToSouthCentralWhileDrinkingYourJuiceInTheHood'', where it's a RunningJoke that Tray's father is somehow ''younger'' than his teenage son.
* ''Film/AptPupil'': Creator/IanMcKellen was surprised to be asked to play 75-year-old Kurt Dussander, since he was only 57 at the time of filming.
* ''Film/TheLastDuel'': Jacques le Gris and Jean de Carrouges were both reportedly in their mid-to-late fifties in 1386, when the trial and duel took place, while Creator/AdamDriver was 36/37 years old and Creator/MattDamon was 49/50 years old during filming. It particularly sticks out due to Marguerite's line about how her fate will not be decided by God but "by which old man tires first"; while Damon's make-up and hair helped make him look much older, Driver looked his actual age.
* ''Film/WaynesWorld2'': Del Preston is a retired roadie that worked with many classic rock groups, including Music/TheDoors and Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, in the 1970s. In real life, Ralph Brown, who plays Preston, was only 36 at the time and was still a teenager when Doors frontman Jim Morrison died in 1971.
* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse has Yelena Belova, played by Creator/FlorencePugh. She's introduced in ''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}'' as having been 6 years old in 1995, putting her around 27-28 in the film proper, set in 2016. Pugh herself was born in 1996, and was 23 during production. [[spoiler:TheStinger, set shortly after the events of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' and leading into the events of ''Series/{{Hawkeye|2021}}'' (which reveals her to have been snapped for five years by Thanos during the events of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''), puts Yelena at 29-30, widening the age gap between her and Pugh.]]
* The Irish ShortFilm ''Dandelion'' has the mother character played by the 23-year-old Rebecca Rose Flynn (who is significantly OlderThanTheyLook). She's the mother of a four-year-old, and her husband is played by an actor ten years her senior. While being a young mother is certainly possible, the script indicates that the character is meant to be older, and the daughter isn't the result of a TeenPregnancy.
* ''Film/{{Eiffel}}'' has Creator/RomainDuris, then-46, as the 55- to 57-year-old Gustave Eiffel. Also, RealLife Adrienne Bourgès was around 18 in 1858 when she met Eiffel, which would make her 47-49 in 1887-1889. She was played by 24-year-old Creator/EmmaMackey in the latter years in the film.
* ''Film/BattleOfBritain'': Defied. 36-year-old Creator/MichaelCaine thought he was too young to play a squadron commander, feeling that a squadron commander should have a certain paternal ''gravitas''. He was rather bluntly told by several veterans that he was about a decade older than most of the squadron commanders in the actual battle.
* In ''Film/HMPulhamEsq'', Hedy Lamarr plays Robert Young's girlfriend from his first job out of college more than twenty years previously, who he then attempts to rekindle the affair with in the present. Robert Young was only 34 when he played the role, but Hedy Lamarr was 27. Basically, their attempt to make her look twenty years older than her younger self consisted of putting her hair up and adding a faint grey streak to it.
* ''Film/BasicInstinct'': According to the screenplay, Gus is 64 and talks about a murder case he remembered from 1955, which is about 35 years before the setting of the film. Gus is played by actor George Dzunda, who was only 46 during filming. This makes him and his partner Nick (Michael Douglas, 47) essentially the same age, instead of having an OldCopYoungCop dynamic.
* ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'': The [[Film/BeverlyHillsCopIII third film in the series]] states Axl Foley to be in his early thirties. This lines up with Creator/EddieMurphy's age, but although Foley being a detective despite his wrecklessness and insubordination is [[RuleOfFunny the whole point]], his having been promoted that far in his early 20s is probably even less realistic.
* ''Film/MammaMiaHereWeGoAgain'' features Cher as Meryl Streep's mother, despite the fact that she's only three years older than Streep in real life. Justified, [[spoiler: as Streep's character is dead and doesn't spend any time onscreen with Cher except for the musical finale]].
* ''Film/EyesOfAStranger'': In their childhood Jane's actress is only a couple of years older than Tracy's (to prevent Jane from appearing too unsympathetic when her neglect allows her little sister to be kidnapped and sexually assaulted). But when the film shows the main action [[Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh Tracy's actress]] is more than a decade younger than Jane's actress, a vulnerable teen to her sister's experienced career woman. This makes Tracy a more viable DamselInDistress (for when her sister's reckless actions cause her to be sexually assaulted again!) And saves her from being too unsympathetic as TheLoad (since the first assault disabled Tracy Jane has had to take care of her).
* ''Film/DanInRealLife'': Dan and Ruthie are around the same age, given that they went to high school together. Creator/EmilyBlunt is twenty-one years younger than Creator/SteveCarell.
* ''Film/TheGraduate'': Anne Bancroft plays Katherine Ross's mother. They are only 8 years apart in age.
* ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'': James Baskett was in his 40s when playing the much older Uncle Remus. Since Baskett's hair went grey early, he looks the same age as his character.
* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'': Creator/LeaThompson, who plays Lorraine Baines-[=McFly=], is just nine ''days'' older than Creator/MichaelJFox, who plays her onscreen son Marty. Although the first film mainly takes place in 1955, at the time when she's the same age as Marty, making this a justified trope. In the DVDCommentary, they noted how unusual it was to have the same actor play their older and younger selves instead of using a TimeShiftedActor.
* ''Film/{{Saltburn}}'': Creator/RosamundPike was 43 when she played the mother of then-25-year-old Creator/AlisonOliver and Creator/JacobElordi. This would have made her just eighteen when she gave birth, though this is justified in-universe as both Venetia and Felix are in their teens. She also plays Elspeth after the at least thirteen-year TimeSkip to 2020, where (assuming Elspeth is also 43 like Pike in the main section of the story), she would be at least 56.
* Creator/JacobElordi was 25 during the filming of ''Film/{{Priscilla}}'', the same age as [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]] at the start of the movie, but still plays Elvis when the character gets much older, even well into his 30s (Elvis and [[Creator/PriscillaPresley Priscilla]] separated when Elvis was 38). Elvis was also a decade older than Priscilla, while Elordi is only a year older than Creator/CaileeSpaeny (though she [[OlderThanTheyLook passed for much younger]]).
* ''Aloft'': Nana and Ivan are a mother and son played by Creator/JenniferConnelly and Creator/CillianMurphy, respectively, despite them only having a six-year age gap between them. This largely works since Nana mostly appears in flashback scenes to when Ivan is a child. However, she finally shows up at the end in the present day scenes, still played by Connelly in old-age makeup that isn't quite convincing enough to make her look like someone who's the mother of a thirty-one-year-old (which is an example of [[DawsonCasting the opposite trope]], as Murphy was thirty-eight at the time).
* ''Film/MayDecember'': Joe is stated several times to be thirty-six, with the scandal between him and Gracie starting in 1992 when he was thirteen. Creator/CharlesMelton was thirty-one during filming and would've only been a year old in 1992.
* In ''Film/GodsGun'', Creator/SybilDanning played the mother of Johnny (Creator/LeifGarrett) although she was only nine years older than him.
* ''Film/CarryOnSeries'':
** ''Film/CarryOnAtYourConvenience'': Creator/KennethWilliams played Creator/RichardOCallaghan's father despite only being fourteen years older than him.
** ''Film/CarryOnAbroad'': Creator/AmeliaBayntun plays the mother of Creator/CharlesHawtrey, who was five older younger than her.
** ''Film/CarryOnBehind'': Although Creator/JoanSims plays Creator/PatsyRowlands' mother in this film, Sims was only eight months older than Rowlands.
* In ''Film/TheBlueLagoon1980'', Creator/BrookeShields was 14 when playing adolescent-to-adult Emmeline.
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* Creator/AngelaLansbury was only three years older than the actor playing her son in the 1962 adaptation of ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate''.
* Creator/SallyField played Creator/TomHanks' mother in ''Film/ForrestGump'', though she's only ten years older than him. Granted, the two didn't share the screen together much since many of her scenes are flashbacks to when he was younger. Once it came time for them to act off one another, Field was in old-lady makeup while Hanks was invoking DawsonCasting by playing a man in his 20s.
* In ''Film/SupermanReturns'', ComicBook/LoisLane is played by Creator/KateBosworth, who was only 22 years old and looked it. She was supposed to be an experienced reporter with a Pulitzer or two under her belt, not to mention a kindergarten-age son. Creator/BrandonRouth ([[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]]) was in his mid-20s during production. The most problematic part of all this is that the movie is supposed to take place five years after the events of ''Film/SupermanII'', which makes these characters 35 at the very minimum.
* The Franchise/{{Batman}} movies ''love'' casting young women as professionals that should be at least ten years older:
** Creator/NicoleKidman was 27 when she played Dr Chase Meridian in ''Film/BatmanForever'' and looked younger at times. She's far too young to be a renowned criminal psychologist who consults with the police; realistically she probably wouldn't have finished her [=PhD=] yet, plus it takes around a decade or more to become a qualified clinical psychologist, so it's highly unlikely she'd have her own practice or be experienced enough to be considered an expert in her field. Originally, Creator/ReneRusso was cast as Chase; at 40, her age was far more fitting for the character, but Russo got booted for being "too old" next to Creator/ValKilmer (he's only five years younger).
** In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Dr. Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy has a [=PhD=] and a career as a botanist, meaning she would be in her late 20s at the youngest but is most likely in her 30s, and her comments toward Robin suggest that she sees him as the proverbial Younger Man. Creator/UmaThurman was only 26 during filming; she was still older than Chris O'Donnell (Robin)...by about two months.
** Creator/KatieHolmes played an assistant district attorney in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' despite being 25 years old during filming. If Rachel Dawes had gone to law school straight out of college, she'd have graduated at 24 or 25. It's unlikely given her youth and inexperience that she'd be handling cases--especially major, high-profile ones--on her own. Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal, who replaced her for ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', is only a year older, though she is at least YoungerThanSheLooks.
%%* In ''Film/FantasticBeasts'', protagonist Newt Scamander, played by Creator/EddieRedmayne, is nine years younger than his brother Theseus. The actor who plays Theseus, Callum Turner, is eight years younger than Redmayne.
* In ''Film/{{Oldboy 2003}}'', the actor who plays Lee Woo-jin, Yoo Ji-tae, was born in 1976, while a scene in which his character is a teenager takes place in 1979. However, this can be interpreted as Woo-jin being so obsessed with revenge that he doesn't move on, stuck in his youth, and looks younger than he should be.
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'':
** Creator/SeanConnery plays Dr. Henry Jones, Sr., father of Henry Jones, Jr., or Indiana Jones, who is played by Creator/HarrisonFord. However, Connery is only 12 years older than Ford (Connery was born in 1930, Ford in 1942), even if his baldness and white beard makes him look significantly older.
** Alison Doody was 21 when she was cast as Dr. Elsa Schneider, [[VagueAge and although her age wasn't stated onscreen]], she would have to be at least 30 to have her credentials as an experienced archaeologist.
* ''Film/TheBourneSeries'':
** Creator/JuliaStiles played Nicky Parsons, one of Jason Bourne's field handlers on an extremely sensitive mission and apparently has beyond Top Secret clearance given what she is involved in (monitoring all of the Treadstone field agents). In other words, significantly more dangerous to the Agency than Bourne is if she screws up, or if something was missed in her vetting and she is less than 100% loyal. When ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' was released, Stiles was a very young looking ''21''. There's an attempted HandWave in ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'' when Nicky explains [[OlderThanSheLooks her cover was an exchange student studying in Paris]].
** The latest film in the series ''Film/JasonBourne'' has this problem as well, with Creator/AliciaVikander, in her 20s, playing a high-ranking CIA official, who concludes the film angling for an even ''higher'' position.
* Any incarnation of ComicBook/HarleyQuinn really counts, since she's always presented as a very young (or at least, childlike in manner and appearance) character, despite the fact that she held an M.D., specialised in psychiatry, and was experienced enough to be allowed to spend time alone with highly dangerous patients - meaning that she would presumably be in her mid-thirties at the youngest by the time she became ComicBook/TheJoker's moll, and she was by his side for at least a few years. The version of her in ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' has to take the cake, though, as she is played by the Creator/MargotRobbie, in her mid-20s, who in real life would be ''just about'' finishing med school and choosing her specialty at that age, and wouldn't be let loose unsupervised on a prisoner of the Joker's calibre for years to come. And unlike some other professions on this list, psychiatry is one that is very difficult for "teen genius" types to get into early, since it requires not just raw intelligence but rigorous demonstrations of mental and emotional maturity. One depiction tried to explain away her getting to where she is with the excuse that she slept with her professor for good grades. SextraCredit may explain ''one'' professor, but not the entire psychiatry program.
** ''Suicide Squad'' also has examples in the couple Rick Flag and June Moone (aka the Enchantress). Flag is a colonel, a rank probably expected for someone older than 35-year-old Creator/JoelKinnaman; June is referred to as "Doctor", meaning she has spent at least a decade studying to get a Ph.D in archaeology, and yet her actress, Creator/CaraDelevingne, was only in her early 20s
** ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'' attempts to square the circle with Harley by establishing that she is, in fact, [[OlderThanTheyLook a decent amount older than Robbie's actual age]].
* In ''Film/DaysOfThunder'', then-22-year-old Creator/NicoleKidman played a full-fledged neurosurgeon. At that age, she would be at most only halfway through medical school. Even coming from a country that doesn't require a college degree before entering medical school, she would still only be fresh out of school.
* ''Film/TheInsider'': 33-year-old Creator/RussellCrowe plays Dr. Jeffrey Wigand. The real Wigand was 50 when the events of the movie happened and is three years older than Lowell Bergman, whereas Crowe is 24 years younger than Creator/AlPacino (who plays Bergman in the movie).
* Franchise/JamesBond:
** ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' was much mocked for having its main BondGirl, Dr. Christmas Jones, played by then 28-year-old Creator/DeniseRichards and looking even younger, be supposedly a world-renowned nuclear physicist. What makes it stand out even more is that Dr. Arkov was clearly in his fifties.
** In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', [[BigBad Lyutsifer Safin]] reveals that [[spoiler: he was the assassin sent to kill Madeline Swan and her mother when she was a child, meaning he was an adult and a trained killer 20+ years ago, so he should be at least in his mid-40s in the present day]]. Safin's actor Creator/RamiMalek was 38 during filming, only four years older than Dr. Swan's actress Creator/LeaSeydoux, and thanks to his naturally boyish features, he doesn't even look ''that'' old.
* In ''Film/{{Willow}}'', in a rare reversal of the common practice of adults being cast as teenagers, then 17-year-old Creator/WarwickDavis played a married man with small children.
* Ultimately inverted by ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'', where the 80-year-old J. Paul Getty was originally portrayed by 58-year-old Creator/KevinSpacey with the aid of aging makeup... until [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor Spacey's sexual scandals erased him from the movie]] [[TheOtherMarty and he was replaced with]] Creator/ChristopherPlummer, who at age 88 was five years older than Getty was when he died!
* In ''Film/MenInBlack'', Creator/TommyLeeJones had just turned 50 when he first played Agent Kay, who'd served in the MIB since the early 1960s, which should've put him at least in his early 60s. WordOfGod had considered casting Creator/ClintEastwood, who would've fit the right age, before casting Jones.
** In a similar note for Jones, ''Film/SpaceCowboys'' begins with a prologue where Jones' character is a pilot and budding astronaut in his twenties in 1958, meaning he's pushing 70 in the present-day setting of the film. Jones was not yet a teenager in 1958; as other movies like ''Men In Black'', the film uses Jones being YoungerThanHeLooks to fit him in at an older age bracket, since at age 54, Jones would still be in a reasonable enough age to be an astronaut.
* ''Film/TheKarateKidPartIII'': While Terry Silver is a Vietnam War veteran who is close in age to John Kreese, Thomas Ian Griffith was 25 at the time of filming, making him 16 years younger than Creator/MartinKove, and four months younger than Creator/RalphMacchio, who is playing an 18-year-old Daniel [=LaRusso=]. This would continue when Griffith reprised his role as Silver for the fourth season of ''Series/CobraKai'', though there his [[SilverFox silver hair]] combined with Macchio's still [[OlderThanTheyLook relatively youthful looking face]] means Silver does look closer in age to Kreese (75-year-old Kove) than to Daniel (59-year-old Macchio). To cap things off, Nick Marini, who plays young Terry Silver in flashbacks in ''Cobra Kai'', was older at the time of filming his scenes in season 3 than Griffith was during the filming of ''The Karate Kid Part III''.
* In ''Film/LadiesOfTheChorus'', Adele Jergens (then-31) was eight years and a half older than Creator/MarilynMonroe (then-22), and played the mother of Marilyn's character.
* ''Film/Shaft2019'': Despite being a sequel to ''Film/Shaft2000'', Creator/RichardRoundtree's Shaft is retconned into being Creator/SamuelLJackson's Shaft's father, instead of his uncle like in the 2000 film. Jackson is only 7 years younger than Roundtree.
* A mermaid character was cut completely from ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie''. She was played by a 15-year-old actress who would have had GodivaHair. [[https://lostmediawiki.com/Turbo:_A_Power_Rangers_Movie_(lost_deleted_scenes_of_film;_1997) She was also supposed]] to be a LoveInterest for Adam. Given the DawsonCasting for the Rangers themselves, it resulted in JailbaitTaboo if you consider cast age rather than characters.
* ''Film/TheRoom2003'': Johnny's fiance Lisa is implied to be at least in her late twenties, since they've been together for seven years, but Juliette Danielle was twenty-two at the time of filming next to Creator/TommyWiseau in his late forties. This is apparently a result of the original actress for Lisa dropping out, and Juliette Danielle (who'd been cast as Michelle) getting bumped up.
* Creator/KeiraKnightley in ''Film/LoveActually'' plays a woman getting married, and [[Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor her husband]] and [[Creator/AndrewLincoln other love interest]] were in their late twenties and early thirties respectively. She was eighteen, and had in fact been playing her real age in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', ''Film/BendItLikeBeckham'' and ''Film/TheHole'' just before.
* Creator/JenniferLawrence in ''Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook'' plays a woman who has been married for several years and is the love interest of thirty-seven-year-old Creator/BradleyCooper. She was twenty-one. The role was originally meant for Creator/AnneHathaway, who was the slightly more believable age of twenty-eight.
* In ''Film/{{Harakiri}}'', Creator/TatsuyaNakadai plays a man who has an adult daughter and an infant grandson, at only 30.
* Creator/BlakeLively was 23 when she was cast as Carol Ferris in ''Film/GreenLantern2011'', yet several lines imply she's the same age as Hal Jordan (played by 35-year-old Creator/RyanReynolds) and Hector Hammond (39-year-old Creator/PeterSarsgaard), the latter of whom was a professor.
* In ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', Harrison Young plays a character in his 70s who had served in D-Day. Young was 14 when the actual invasion occurred
* In ''Film/HouseOfGucci'', 35-year-old Music/LadyGaga and 37-year-old Creator/AdamDriver played a 47-year-old Patrizia Reggiani and 46-year-old Maurizio Gucci, respectively.
* ''Film/TheTrumanShow'': Christof is the producer of the eponymous show, watching over Truman since he was born 30 years earlier. However, he's played by Creator/EdHarris, who was only in his late 40s at the time. This is because Creator/DennisHopper, who was in his 60s at the time, [[TheOtherMarty had originally been cast as Christof before being replaced by Harris during production]].
* This became a bit of a problem in the Film/XMenFilmSeries. For some inexplicable reason, each of the post-reboot films involved a ten-year TimeSkip from the previous one. It wasn't so bad going from ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' to ''Film/DaysOfFuturePast''; ten years passed and the returning characters were roughly the same age as their actors. But in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', another ten years pass. Xavier, Magneto, and Moira [=MacTaggart=] were pushing 50 while their actors were in their 30s during filming. Havok and Beast would be at least 40 while their actors were in their mid-20s, and Havok and Cyclops' mother doesn't look nearly old enough for her eldest son to be middle-aged.[[note]]The massive liberties taken with the Summers family are a different story altogether.[[/note]] In fact, some have pointed out that ''Film/DarkPhoenix'', which takes place in the 90s, should have featured the older actors from the original trilogy, since the first film in the series, ''Film/XMen1'', came out in 2000.
* In ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'', Tim's father Harry is played by Creator/RyanReynolds, who is only 19 years older than Creator/JusticeSmith. While obviously not impossible, Harry would have been quite a young dad.
* In ''Film/BoyzNTheHood'', Creator/LaurenceFishburne plays the father of Creator/CubaGoodingJr's character, even though the actors are only 7 years apart. This was mocked in the parody film ''Film/DontBeAMenaceToSouthCentralWhileDrinkingYourJuiceInTheHood'', where it's a RunningJoke that Tray's father is somehow ''younger'' than his teenage son.
* ''Film/AptPupil'': Creator/IanMcKellen was surprised to be asked to play 75-year-old Kurt Dussander, since he was only 57 at the time of filming.
* ''Film/TheLastDuel'': Jacques le Gris and Jean de Carrouges were both reportedly in their mid-to-late fifties in 1386, when the trial and duel took place, while Creator/AdamDriver was 36/37 years old and Creator/MattDamon was 49/50 years old during filming. It particularly sticks out due to Marguerite's line about how her fate will not be decided by God but "by which old man tires first"; while Damon's make-up and hair helped make him look much older, Driver looked his actual age.
* ''Film/WaynesWorld2'': Del Preston is a retired roadie that worked with many classic rock groups, including Music/TheDoors and Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, in the 1970s. In real life, Ralph Brown, who plays Preston, was only 36 at the time and was still a teenager when Doors frontman Jim Morrison died in 1971.
* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse has Yelena Belova, played by Creator/FlorencePugh. She's introduced in ''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}'' as having been 6 years old in 1995, putting her around 27-28 in the film proper, set in 2016. Pugh herself was born in 1996, and was 23 during production. [[spoiler:TheStinger, set shortly after the events of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' and leading into the events of ''Series/{{Hawkeye|2021}}'' (which reveals her to have been snapped for five years by Thanos during the events of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''), puts Yelena at 29-30, widening the age gap between her and Pugh.]]
* The Irish ShortFilm ''Dandelion'' has the mother character played by the 23-year-old Rebecca Rose Flynn (who is significantly OlderThanTheyLook). She's the mother of a four-year-old, and her husband is played by an actor ten years her senior. While being a young mother is certainly possible, the script indicates that the character is meant to be older, and the daughter isn't the result of a TeenPregnancy.
* ''Film/{{Eiffel}}'' has Creator/RomainDuris, then-46, as the 55- to 57-year-old Gustave Eiffel. Also, RealLife Adrienne Bourgès was around 18 in 1858 when she met Eiffel, which would make her 47-49 in 1887-1889. She was played by 24-year-old Creator/EmmaMackey in the latter years in the film.
* ''Film/BattleOfBritain'': Defied. 36-year-old Creator/MichaelCaine thought he was too young to play a squadron commander, feeling that a squadron commander should have a certain paternal ''gravitas''. He was rather bluntly told by several veterans that he was about a decade older than most of the squadron commanders in the actual battle.
* In ''Film/HMPulhamEsq'', Hedy Lamarr plays Robert Young's girlfriend from his first job out of college more than twenty years previously, who he then attempts to rekindle the affair with in the present. Robert Young was only 34 when he played the role, but Hedy Lamarr was 27. Basically, their attempt to make her look twenty years older than her younger self consisted of putting her hair up and adding a faint grey streak to it.
* ''Film/BasicInstinct'': According to the screenplay, Gus is 64 and talks about a murder case he remembered from 1955, which is about 35 years before the setting of the film. Gus is played by actor George Dzunda, who was only 46 during filming. This makes him and his partner Nick (Michael Douglas, 47) essentially the same age, instead of having an OldCopYoungCop dynamic.
* ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'': The [[Film/BeverlyHillsCopIII third film in the series]] states Axl Foley to be in his early thirties. This lines up with Creator/EddieMurphy's age, but although Foley being a detective despite his wrecklessness and insubordination is [[RuleOfFunny the whole point]], his having been promoted that far in his early 20s is probably even less realistic.
* ''Film/MammaMiaHereWeGoAgain'' features Cher as Meryl Streep's mother, despite the fact that she's only three years older than Streep in real life. Justified, [[spoiler: as Streep's character is dead and doesn't spend any time onscreen with Cher except for the musical finale]].
* ''Film/EyesOfAStranger'': In their childhood Jane's actress is only a couple of years older than Tracy's (to prevent Jane from appearing too unsympathetic when her neglect allows her little sister to be kidnapped and sexually assaulted). But when the film shows the main action [[Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh Tracy's actress]] is more than a decade younger than Jane's actress, a vulnerable teen to her sister's experienced career woman. This makes Tracy a more viable DamselInDistress (for when her sister's reckless actions cause her to be sexually assaulted again!) And saves her from being too unsympathetic as TheLoad (since the first assault disabled Tracy Jane has had to take care of her).
* ''Film/DanInRealLife'': Dan and Ruthie are around the same age, given that they went to high school together. Creator/EmilyBlunt is twenty-one years younger than Creator/SteveCarell.
* ''Film/TheGraduate'': Anne Bancroft plays Katherine Ross's mother. They are only 8 years apart in age.
* ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'': James Baskett was in his 40s when playing the much older Uncle Remus. Since Baskett's hair went grey early, he looks the same age as his character.
* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'': Creator/LeaThompson, who plays Lorraine Baines-[=McFly=], is just nine ''days'' older than Creator/MichaelJFox, who plays her onscreen son Marty. Although the first film mainly takes place in 1955, at the time when she's the same age as Marty, making this a justified trope. In the DVDCommentary, they noted how unusual it was to have the same actor play their older and younger selves instead of using a TimeShiftedActor.
* ''Film/{{Saltburn}}'': Creator/RosamundPike was 43 when she played the mother of then-25-year-old Creator/AlisonOliver and Creator/JacobElordi. This would have made her just eighteen when she gave birth, though this is justified in-universe as both Venetia and Felix are in their teens. She also plays Elspeth after the at least thirteen-year TimeSkip to 2020, where (assuming Elspeth is also 43 like Pike in the main section of the story), she would be at least 56.
* Creator/JacobElordi was 25 during the filming of ''Film/{{Priscilla}}'', the same age as [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]] at the start of the movie, but still plays Elvis when the character gets much older, even well into his 30s (Elvis and [[Creator/PriscillaPresley Priscilla]] separated when Elvis was 38). Elvis was also a decade older than Priscilla, while Elordi is only a year older than Creator/CaileeSpaeny (though she [[OlderThanTheyLook passed for much younger]]).
* ''Aloft'': Nana and Ivan are a mother and son played by Creator/JenniferConnelly and Creator/CillianMurphy, respectively, despite them only having a six-year age gap between them. This largely works since Nana mostly appears in flashback scenes to when Ivan is a child. However, she finally shows up at the end in the present day scenes, still played by Connelly in old-age makeup that isn't quite convincing enough to make her look like someone who's the mother of a thirty-one-year-old (which is an example of [[DawsonCasting the opposite trope]], as Murphy was thirty-eight at the time).
* ''Film/MayDecember'': Joe is stated several times to be thirty-six, with the scandal between him and Gracie starting in 1992 when he was thirteen. Creator/CharlesMelton was thirty-one during filming and would've only been a year old in 1992.
* In ''Film/GodsGun'', Creator/SybilDanning played the mother of Johnny (Creator/LeifGarrett) although she was only nine years older than him.
* ''Film/CarryOnSeries'':
** ''Film/CarryOnAtYourConvenience'': Creator/KennethWilliams played Creator/RichardOCallaghan's father despite only being fourteen years older than him.
** ''Film/CarryOnAbroad'': Creator/AmeliaBayntun plays the mother of Creator/CharlesHawtrey, who was five older younger than her.
** ''Film/CarryOnBehind'': Although Creator/JoanSims plays Creator/PatsyRowlands' mother in this film, Sims was only eight months older than Rowlands.
* In ''Film/TheBlueLagoon1980'', Creator/BrookeShields was 14 when playing adolescent-to-adult Emmeline.
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