Carol Kane was too old
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ofumalow — 12 years ago(May 12, 2013 03:44 PM)
Carol Kane was already in her late twenties when she made this. She's supposed to be the teenage babysitter, but it always feels like she's forcing the "young" thing with her acting. (Yeesh, she'd already played grown women onscreen for several years already.) Not that she isn't a good actressjust that they needed an actual teenager, or someone who could actually pass as one, for this part.
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plasmic_steve — 12 years ago(September 06, 2013 05:50 AM)
I agree, but I think they made the best of what they had to work with, which was her. Using two actresses when they're not that far apart in age (unlike a young child/adult character played by two actors) would have been tough to believe.
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ElectricWarlock — 12 years ago(September 26, 2013 12:10 PM)
She looked a bit younger than her age to me. I've seen people even older than her play teenagers in films (Danielle Harris comes to mind, she was 30 in Rob Zombie's Halloween), so it's not anything unheard of. She had an innocent demeanor about her that made me feel sorry for her when all of the bad things started happening so I think she was perfectly cast.
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IloveMuggy — 11 years ago(July 23, 2014 01:41 PM)
Stockard Channing was 33 in Grease.
And she looked every bit of it. In fact, she could have passed for 40. Even back then I remember laughing with my friends that she was supposed to be a high school student. -
Coqui80 — 10 years ago(November 17, 2015 12:01 AM)
she was supposed to be college aged. she wasn't "late 20s" when making this film, by the way. based on her birthdate and the time this was released, she would have been 26 at the time of filming and 27 when it was released. not a teen, but 26 isn't all that far off from her character's intended age.
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