Too OLD to be playing a teen
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tlavairt-1 — 15 years ago(June 06, 2010 07:59 PM)
Eric Christian Olsen played a high school student on
Fired Up!
and Justin Chon is doing the same thing on the
Twilight
movies and you have the guy on the
Hannah Montana
show (don't know his name right off) so this is quite common. -
TrangPak2 — 15 years ago(June 07, 2010 04:16 PM)
Yeah but Eric Christian Olsen, Justin Chon and the guy from Hanna Montana are not 4 feet and weight 320 pounds, I'm sorry but if a film were ever made about Edith Massey, Nikki could easily slip into the role with very little make-up, Hell she could play the cheated on Mom in a remake of She-devil!
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YourAgent — 15 years ago(February 11, 2011 01:56 PM)
TrangPak, she looks like a teen so yeah, she can play one just fine. And that Edith woman's skin looks red/tan, aged, wrinkled, and scarred, whereas Nikki looks quite nice with smooth, porcelain, youthful, skin. They look nothing alike. And that Edith woman is much larger. I think you're exaggerating because you're bias and dislike Blonski, perhaps among other things, for being fat.
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Seeking_Self — 15 years ago(September 01, 2010 07:54 AM)
Michael Steger (sp) on 90210 is about 29/30 playing a 17(?) year old, and the guy on Hannah Montana, (I think you mean her brother), he's about 25 if I remember correctly. You're right, It happens all the time. Its so common now that in real life teens actually appear to be younger to us than they are. I was watching Dr. Phil the other day (I'm still out of college for summer you see), and it was an older episode about some junkie young mother and she had two kids they kept mentioning, and I couldn't help thinking how sad it was that she was a teen mother with so many problems. Till the Doc said she was 28. And she wasn't even someone who was particularily young-looking.
Its just a Hollywood thing. Actors who are in their 20s play teens, 30s play 20s, 30s, and 40s. Its really only kids who play according to age.
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g-eatan — 15 years ago(July 20, 2010 06:58 AM)
She won't even be 22 till November. She is funny and smart and she deserves this role if it makes her happy. The show is interesting of sorts because watching it makes you relize that this is what your kids go through if they are overweight. And everyones definition of curvy is different. She is what the abc execitives wanted and without working there you don't know they didn't watch all the tapes and online summissions. She was also very cute when she did hairspray with John Travolta as her mother. Know what your talking about before you post something as what you write could hurt someones feelings.
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noway234-1 — 15 years ago(January 03, 2011 02:38 AM)
OK I don't know who you're looking at, but she definitely looks like a teen. You don't have to actually be a teenager to play the role of a teenager, in fact in movies it's better if you're older because then you can stay on set longer and it's easier for a 22 year old to do certain scenes than a 15 year old. People in their 20's play younger all the time, as long as they look young enough then they can play the part. Not all 16 year old girls are as confident in their skin as Nikki is, for the character it was important that she be a take no prisoners kind of girl who loved herself for who she was, and since she's still relatively well known from Hairspray they were using that2000 to their advantage.
Now that the show's been aired and finished, hopefully you'll see that she was perfect for the role and you'll stop judging actors based on their age and instead on their talent
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ReaptheChaos — 14 years ago(October 17, 2011 12:17 AM)
Its commonplace for girls in their early 20s to play teenagers in both movies and television. They seldom use actual teens in roles unless they started out on a show as a child and grew up over the seasons.
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Serena_The_Serene_One — 10 years ago(October 02, 2015 02:26 PM)
Martin Short played a kid in a movie and Gabrielle Carteris played teen on BH90210. What about Saved By The Bell cast? My point is some teens don't look like teens. Look at the actress that played the youngest daughter on 7th Heaven!
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