re: Hollywood and "age"/suspension of disbelief

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Sam Neil and Laura Dern are 17 years apart... as she has let everyone know was a problem thirty years after the fact.

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Meh - this was just from last year:

Trigger warning - Rolling Stone link

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“I am 20 years older than Laura!” Neill told The Sunday Times. “Which at the time was a completely appropriate age difference for a leading man and lady!”

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As for Dern, the two characters falling in love felt OK. “It felt completely appropriate to fall in love with Sam Neill,” she said. “And it was only now, when we returned in a moment of cultural awareness about the patriarchy, that I was like, ‘Wow! We’re not the same age?’”

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She's all but admitting that it is shrill harpies telling her this is a problem now (in hindsight), not necessarily her having felt exploited at the time.