Dawson Casting TV Tropes. This entry is trivia, which is cool and all, but not a trope. On a work, it goes on the Trivia tab. Get the latest news on celebrity scandals, engagements, and divorces Check out our breaking stories on Hollywoods hottest stars Watch Dawsons Creek Season 6, Episode 23 All Good Things. Official Dawsons Creek site cast, crew, character, and episode guides, articles, and downloads. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Create a free acount to gain access to tons of cool features like subscribing to your favorite tv shows and receiving Facebook notifications when a new episode is. The first season of The Vampire Diaries began airing in the United States on Thursday, September 10, 2009. It is a TV adaption of L. J. Smiths series of young adult. This dates back to the earliest days of Hollywood, if not further, making it Older Than Television. Despite this trope being a prime source for ridicule, mockery, and parody, there are actually a lot of legitimate reasons for why this is done. Among them include stricter rules for employing childrennote For example A lot of US television is produced and shot in California, where children under 1. AM or after 7 PM during most of the year also, children under 1. See the Analysis Page for more details. If younger, casting usually tries for children actors, and if older it is simply far less noticeable. If a show or movie carries a greater focus on the adults rather than the kids then they will usually avert this. With Jen in the hospital, the gang tries not to be too sad about it. Dawson helps Jen make a video for her infant daughter, asking her to never stop loving and dreaming. I/51CY687D5CL._SY445_.jpg' alt='Watch Dawson`S Creek Season 4 Episode 1' title='Watch Dawson`S Creek Season 4 Episode 1' />This ought to be horribly distracting, but by and large, television audiences have learned to manage. It is so ingrained into our mindset that almost all aversions end up being notable. Conversely, actors in their early to mid twenties, especially those who make their name in these kinds of shows, often have difficulty being taken seriously playing characters their own age. Very specific actors can pull it off, usually attributing it to the character being Older Than They Look. In other cases, some stories work with this because a key plot point may be the character does not actually look their age and are trying to pass off as older than they really are. But with no such luck Hollywood will get by with appropriate clothing, hairstyles, makeup and mannerisms. Michelle Williams was the only one still high school aged. In season two, the new main character Jack was 1. Kerr Smith was 2. While maybe not the worst case example Jack aside, it is a joke that has filtered into the cultural mindset regarding the show. Watch Tales From The Golden Age Full Movie'>Watch Tales From The Golden Age Full Movie. Also consider that production time may vary greatly from release of the movie or airing of the episode. The actors are of course younger during filming. Timeline issues sometimes make this more apparent, as 5 seasons of a tv show may only cover one year within the context of the story, making an actor who was an aversion become a straight example over time. Consider also that the exact age of the character may also be in question a generic. In the case of voice acting that field has nothing to do with appearance and everything to do with vocal performance, as such only notable aversions are mentioned consider what the point would be to list examples of Race Lift in voice acting. Watch Hang `Em High Online more. This is also part of why we have Crossdressing Voices. What matters is if you believe in the character. At the same time this is not about age discrepancies, just being three or four years older doesnt necessarily mean the production is. If anything finding a 1. Contrast Playing Gertrude. See also Artistic Age for an intentional drawn equivalent. Cross Dressing Voices is more or less the animated version of this trope, as partially explained above. Also used to avert a Stage Mom situation. Aoi Yuuki, Tautsumakis voice actress, is a year younger than Saori Hayami, Fubukis voice actress. Rada voices Ed in most flashbacks, but in some short ones two three lines tops, Escobar keeps voicing little Ed. The results are kinda jarring, since even though Escobars voice is believable for a teenager although a kinda deep voiced one at that, it definitely isnt for a little boy. In the audio commentary for Chrono Crusade, its revealed that they used a mixture of Chris speaking higher and some editing to make it work. The same goes for Rossiu, though only in the dub while in the Japanese version he retains a female voice actor even when we briefly see him in his fourties. In the Spaniard dub of Naruto every single main male character over the age of 1. Javier Balas, Narutos voice actor, explained in an interview that it was done like that because when the series arrived to Spain, in Japan the manga had already reached the Time Skip. Hence, they casted so every character could keep their voice actors after that point. Before the Time Skip he was voiced by Adolfo Moreno, a 3. Ash Ketchum from Pok. However, after the Time Skip he was replaced by Eduardo Bosch, whose voice sounds way more mature. In fact, Greg himself tends to be a walking examplehe was originally hired as a voice actor in the first place because his natural voice sounds so young. Sixteen year old Tsukiyono Omi of Wei. Most dubs use a female actor for this role, but the Funimation English dub, like the Japanese Version, used his adult actor, Christopher Sabat as the young Vegeta. The video for. She was 3. She was 2. 5 years old when she released her self titled debut. In the late 1. 98. Not counting the unreleased track. Minor examples earlier, as she wasnt that much older than her characters, but its started getting played more and more straight as she gets older though to her credit, she doesnt look it. The video averts this by having scenes depicting the band as actual children, as well as being blatantly comedic in the first place. Her debut album, Animal, was released in 2. She herself was 2. They all look at least ten years too old for the role. However, most of the actors in the video who arent band members look plausibly teenage, and one of them is clearly in fact too young. She was 3. 9 at the time. Most blatantly, theres the line. When hired to appear as an. The commentators and other performers frequently called attention to the fact that Kelly was. As if those innuendoes werent enough, Kelly was also paired romantically with Mike Knox, a man so gargantuan that he looked more like her father than her boyfriend and who acted like her father, too. The most notable example is Sesame Street, which has several characters who are supposed to be children, but sound like adults. The actors. Kind of inevitable, really. Theres even a line in the play about how Rutledge is the youngest man in Congress. But who cares about that when youve got Cullums beautiful soaring baritoneThe four brats and several jealous tots who are at hand for the factory opening are all played by adults. Coincidentally, Leslie Caron was the same age when the original film was made. On the other hand, the role of Gaston, who was played by 3. Broadway by Corey Cott, whos only 2. In the musical, Cosette and. This is even the case in the 2. Anne Hathaway as Fantine, 2. Amanda Seyfried as Cosette and 2. Samantha Barks as. However, by far the most blatant example occurs with Alexanders eldest son Phillip. Hes the only one of the Hamiltons eight children with a role in the play the other kids are mentioned but hes the only one who appears, and the same adult actor plays him at both 9 years old and 1. It helps that his original actor, Anthony Ramos, has a smaller frame, boyish face, and higher vocal range, making it much less distracting than, say, having the hulking baritone Okieriete Onaodowan Hercules Mulligan in the first act, James Madison in the second in that role. According to the play, he just interrupted his studies at Wittenberg, so hes not even graduated college. But elsewhere, the play mentions him as being in his thirties. Maybe Shakespeare couldnt do maths very well. Plus, the role of. Leaving aside the challenges of mastering Shakespeares language and characters, the subject matter including a rushed marriage, murder, and suicide is dark and bracing enough as it is. Sometimes the production will just Age Lift Juliet by a few years, even if the actors are still out of their teens. But considering the difficulty of her role, she requires a master performer with a fully developed voice, so she and many other opera ingenues are Dawson Casted. The real Anna was in her late 2. Siam, while King Mongkut was nearly 6.