I find this phenomenon so unnecessary and illogical.
I’ve been watching the TV series #Succession. In the opening sequence for each show, images of the four Roy children are shown as looking to be, at most, about 6-7 years apart in age.
Yet in the show, they clearly are not 6-7 years apart. Connor, who has a different mother than the younger three children, is visibly “the oldest,” but in terms of the four actors’ actual birth years (and how old they look) we have this —
Connor, 1956 (late-wave boomer)
Kendall, 1978 (late-wave genx … & 22 years younger than Con!)
Rome, 1982 (early-wave Millennials)
Shiv, 1987 (Millennial)
I mean … what the heck?
There is a THIRTY-ONE YEAR span in the ages of the actors who play the now-adult-children. 31 years! And three generations!
What kind of casting is that?
Why didn’t anyone making the opening sequence ask what the age of the children shown should be?
Why was Connor cast as so old (22 years older than the next younger brother)?
I mean … why?
WHY?
Why show the children in the opening sequence as being similar-ish in age, when clearly they aren’t… in the show’s storyline and by the actor’s actual age.
Why, why, why?
it’s just so unnecessary and illogical. The world needs more logic.
