Thrice upon a time

[rivkat]

Let me specify that I, too, am enjoying the women of Once Upon a Time. However: Jennifer Morrison (born 1979) plays the daughter of Ginnifer Godwin (born 1978), who plays the stepdaughter of Lana Parilla (born 1977). (That’s one precocious mayor!) If there is a better illustration of Hollywood’s horror of women over 40, don’t tell me. I really don’t want to know.

Comments

[liviapenn]

*facepalm*

I haven't seen the show at all, but are there lots of flashbacks to these characters when they *were* the age that the actresses are? (Like, in "Revenge" there are lots of "fifteen-years-ago" flashbacks and some of the characters pull it off better than others...) I'm just trying to make some kind of sense of it! I think my head hurts....!

[raincitygirl]

Well, in Storeybrooke Land (one of the two parallel realities in the show), Ginnifer Goodwin's character and Jennifer Morrison's character are roommates. Yes, in Fairytale Land they're mother and daughter, but in Storeybrooke it kind of makes sense for them to be round about the same age.

Rivkat definitely has a point about the show avoiding women over forty, but there are bits and pieces of the youthful casting which make sense. Well, for a given value of sense. Seeing as how we're talking about a canon where Fairytale Land is a real place.

I don't know. It can all be rationalized away, but it still ends up with three generations of women being played by women who are all in the same generation. I would feel better about those casting decisions if we had ANY older female characters to pick up the slack of the main characters all being cast young.

[jenrose]

At least Jennifer Morrison's character isn't 20 playing 16?

Naw, I got nuttin'.