Jennifer Connelly was only 14? She looks more like 25.
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DeputyDippity — 11 years ago(January 24, 2015 05:58 PM)
I didn't mean it in a negative way. You are correct. The shirt has a timeless Renaissance Faire thing going on. I've always liked the shirt, but I never realized how it sort of makes her seem more like someone born a long time ago, rather than someone born in the 1970s who was a teen in the 1980s. So it ages her. Though it is perfect for someone like Sarah.
There are multiple factors, but I, personally, now blame the shirt more than anything else.
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dsrtrosy-1 — 11 years ago(January 25, 2015 07:22 PM)
Her outfit actually looks exactly like the things we wore at that age in the mid-80s. I had at least 3 shirts like that, and we all had dozens of vests. Nothing about her hair, makeup or wardrobe is out of place for a girl of that age at that time. She looks like pictures of my friends and I back then. I see nothing buxom, mature, or adult in her look or bearing. Not sure what movie you all watched!!
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fiatlux-1 — 11 years ago(January 25, 2015 07:47 PM)
Well, I was only 11 when this film came out so perhaps the fashion of 'older teens' was not known to me.
But none of the teenagers I ever saw in the '80s dressed like that.
And NONE were bosomy like Jennifer Connelly!
Nowadays maybe, with diets being so different & food hormones & fat teenagers.but not in 1986.
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MarblesLove — 11 years ago(January 26, 2015 10:35 AM)
You don't have to be a teenager now to have/have had a large bosom. I know a couple of people, one who was a teen on the 70's and one who was a teen in the 90's, who both were rather bosomy, as you say, even then when they were teens.
Something else I think needs to be put into consideration is that even in the same year fashions could be slightly different, depending on where you live. So where you live(d), with the people you interacted with, the flowey blouses might not have been common or popular but where the other poster live(d) they may have been all the rage.
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DeputyDippity — 11 years ago(March 16, 2015 09:25 PM)
I need to add to this thread that Jim Henson and David Bowie both agree with me in the "making of" featurette on the DVD. Jim Henson says that she seems quite adult, and David Bowie says, "One forgets that she's only 14 years old. She's really very mature."
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coolaree — 10 years ago(June 04, 2015 07:41 AM)
To me, in some scenes she looked about 18-19, others 14 etc
girls who are 15-16 can be "fully formed", after all girls do mature faster (but also stop maturing/growing sooner, or so I read).
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Caprizonica8 — 10 years ago(September 13, 2015 01:11 AM)
No way. I just saw the movie and kept thinking how young she looked even for a teenager. She still had a baby face. It actually annoyed me see her wear some eye make up to make her look older, (or just because it was the 80s. Yes, of course when all dressed up she looks slighly older but still you can see beneath that shes a pubert wanting to look older.
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vick3ie — 10 years ago(September 22, 2015 01:49 PM)
She looked 14 or 15. I'm basically a contemporary and she looked like any of my friends in high school. Very pretty girl. Character was weird, but not any weirder than most of the girls I knew at the time. Heh.
She is aging pretty well though!
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meowqueenx — 9 years ago(February 10, 2017 06:53 PM)
Her having been born on December 12th, 1970 she was 15 and a half when the film was released in the U.S. on June 27th, 1986 (Toby's real life 2nd birthday, I think) but yes she was 14 during the filming. She has said as much in interviews and she of all people would know ;). I used to think she looked older than her age in it but after a closer look I could see the early teen look in her face. Not sure how to explain better. While being interviewed for the 30th anniversary theatrical release last
September (even though the actual 30th anniversary took place in June last year), she spoke about how much of a not-so-savvy teen she was when she did the film and behind the ball on David Bowie's popularity/did not know how cool he was :). She said, though, that the fact of her not really being aware enabled her to work with him without being too starstruck, her also saying had she known what a big star he was she would possibly have been way too nervous to do the film with him. I have to say I guess that contributed to my noticing how young she was, maybe a little more mature in looks but young in personality. She also mentioned a friend of her's at the time loved David Bowie, had pictures of him on her bedroom wall, etc., and when Jen told her she was doing the movie with him, her friend ripped down all her Bowie pictures and started talking about how "uncool" he was. Jen went on to say it was when this happened that she realized her friend this meant that, "yeah, he was probably pretty cool."
And yes she now looks pretty similar as she did back then. She does look naturally older but all in all really hasn't changed much.