Why do they keep casting grown adults as teenagers?

[TEH]

Everyone above me is partially right but let me give you the bottom line


Twenty something’s look better than teens

 

[Money Be Green]

nikka like 30 playing a high school teen football star

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Child labor laws
You can get away with more sexual and adult themes with less. Backlash with adults.

Jason Priestley and that breh Dylan were like 26 or some shyt when 90210 started

 

[BlackAchilles]

Because of child labor laws and kids having to go to school a certain number of hours a day.

A young looking 19- or 20-year-old can work a full 14-hour day of filming.

This

 

[downtheline]

I think it is now “common knowledge “ , at least with the mainstream public, that the Entertainment Industry is a feeding ground for pedophilia.

Specifically TV. It’s a big CYA to cast that way now.

 

[QuintessentialMan]

You wanna see the kids do you.

**insert Oprah Winfrey gif**

So tell us OP. When did you first notice you were attracted to young boys? .

Middle school?


I'm joking. I'm sorry. Can I have dap?

 

[Maxine Shaw]

Yep, and child actors eventually grow up too, which can be unpredictable on the body. hard to pretend to be a teen for 7 seasons if you change drastically over the seven years. and age badly or grow a foot taller then needed.
Have some Greg Oden looking breh playing a senior in highschool, because he really was in highschool when you started.

Good points. Janet Jackson's talked about how the producers of Good Times would bind her chest to hide her growing breasts. That must have been awful.