Jennifer Connelly was only 14? She looks more like 25.
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DeputyDippity — 11 years ago(May 24, 2014 09:27 PM)
Shortly after this movie came out, I saw something or read something that said that Jennifer Connelly was 18 when she filmed it, and it's entirely believable. She's a fully formed, mature woman in this movie. I always thought this to be a case of Dawson Casting. That ballroom scene, she could easily pass for 25.
It's also weird that she's barely aged in the last 30 years.
She's freaking me out.
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Agashi — 11 years ago(May 28, 2014 09:34 PM)
Actually, she was 15 when they were filming, 16 when the film was released. Connelly's birth year is 1970, Labyrinth was filmed in 1985.
Some girls naturally mature at a younger age, but I don't think Connelly looked that much older than she was. When you look at her face and body, she still has obvious baby fat in certain places. To me, she looks nowhere near 20, let alone 25.
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Rachael89 — 11 years ago(May 29, 2014 06:13 AM)
Jennifer was 14 when they filmed because her birthday is in December 1970, and Labyrinth wrapped in the autumn (September, I think) of 1985.
And IMO she doesn't look much older than her age - she's clearly a teen.
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DeputyDippity — 11 years ago(January 21, 2015 05:13 AM)
Yes, thank you. I think there are various factors
- Yes, she is very buxom.
- DracVladOU818 nailed it: She is beyond gorgeous in this movie, whereas most 14/15-year-olds are "cute" but not grown-up gorgeous. She looks like a young-looking 20-something.
- She seems fairly tall, compared to David Bowie, and especially compared to all the little puppets around her.
- Her makeup is done by someone who knows what they're doing, and most teens can be pretty clueless, especially back in the 1980s. And her clothing, too, is especially mature, and not that frickin like torn-up jeans Debbie Gibson thing that girls tried to do back then. Her hair is great, and not Aquanet kill-the-ozone "higher-the-hair-the-closer-to-God" updo. It was obviously done by an adult with good taste. Even in the ballroom scene, it's incredibly subdued compared to MTV.
- Her demeanor is of a mature adult trying to act like a little kid. I'm sorry, but this isn't some of Jennifer Connelly's best acting. She acts like a very bratty 10-year-old for the first part of the movie. And by "acts" I mean "overacts" because it's not convincing, and I mean that it makes me think that she's an actress performing a part in a movie, it doesn't make me believe that she is Sarah. Later in the movie, she starts to seem more contemplative and wise, which is what I think her true self is, as it seemed very sincere. However, in this movie as a whole, it comes off as someone who is very mature trying to act like a child who is coming of age.
And some other stuff, but I have to go for now and so I have to stop typing.
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fiatlux-1 — 11 years ago(January 21, 2015 08:29 PM)
I agree, her acting was pretty bad in the early scenes.
But then, this was her first film so I do cut her a break there.
You're spot on in that they made her up like an an adult, NOT like a teen.
I thought her wardrobe was very clever as well, and very deliberately chosen.
She has the everyday teen jeans, but her top is NOT what most teenagers would have chosen to wear in the '80sor any time really.
It has an old-time, fantasy-art look to it, and this is
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It reflects Sarah's deep belief in the realm of fantasy & make-believe.
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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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