Honestly, it feels like the whole “casting incredibly classically beautiful actors in their late 20’s and early 30’s play high schoolers” is somehow getting worse? And it just continues creating such unobtainable goals for actual teenagers.
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Replying to @iLeoSheng
At the same time, I feel like we're much more acutely aware now of the problems with actually casting teenagers for stuff with "mature themes" (and with underage actors in general)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
True. It’s a weird thing because teenagers often do face challenges of a “mature nature” but the dramatization/Hollywood effect makes it feel weird somehow. Especially now, as you said.
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I just feel like a lot of stuff feels more exploitative and gross to me in hindsight now than it did when I actually was a teenager The review of Spring Awakening saying it pretended to be critiquing adults' obsession with teen sexuality when it was obviously indulging in it
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Yes! That’s the word: exploitative. It doesn’t often feel like it’s genuinely being told through a coming of age lens.
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Yeah maybe it is all the same thing Like we need the Dawson casting to feel okay with these stories because we can all tell this wasn't really for teens themselves in the first place
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