Members All My Shadows Posted June 5, 2020 Members Share Posted June 5, 2020 Please tell me again how SORAS is necessary lol I know that not all of these are due to SORAS, but still. Barbara Bel Geddes was only 9 years older than onscreen son Larry Hagman. Helen Wagner didn't have many years on her onscreen children on ATWT. Twelve years older than Rosemary Prinz, sixteen years older than Don Hastings, and she was entirely too young to play mother to most of the actors who played Donald: Hal Studer (1956) - five years younger than HW Richard Holland (1956-1962) - four years younger than HW James Noble (1962) - four years younger than HW Peter Brandon (1965-1972) - eight years younger than HW Martin West (1976-1978) - nineteen years younger than HW Conard Fowkes (1978-1981) - fifteen years younger than HW In the original story bible, Don was "in his senior year of high school" lol They finally got it right in the 70s, but still, if you think that a focus on hiring younger actress over older actress began in the 80s, you're wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted June 5, 2020 Members Share Posted June 5, 2020 Haha that’s true and a good point. It’s also a reason I’ve never understood why people in their late 20’s get hired on to play teenagers. Gabrielle Cateris on 90210 and Blair Redford on The Lying Game are prime examples of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juppiter Posted June 5, 2020 Members Share Posted June 5, 2020 SORAS is definitely an overused crutch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darn Posted June 5, 2020 Members Share Posted June 5, 2020 That reminds me that this 29 year old grown man with a heavily wrinkled face is playing a teenager on the Netflix series Never Have I Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AbcNbc247 Posted June 5, 2020 Members Share Posted June 5, 2020 This is off topic, but who was the first soap character to be SORASed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChitHappens Posted June 5, 2020 Members Share Posted June 5, 2020 I agree McCook/Moss, Hagman and Bel Geddes certainly passed, but I will never not be bothered by this: starts @ 4:34 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GLATWT88 Posted June 5, 2020 Members Share Posted June 5, 2020 I was going to mention this one as well. Also, Susan Flannery is only 12 years older than Ron Moss. Although, the mother/son thing was more visually believable as Susan got older. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted June 5, 2020 Members Share Posted June 5, 2020 Earliest one I know of has got to be Mike Bauer on GL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AbcNbc247 Posted June 5, 2020 Members Share Posted June 5, 2020 Thanks! I had a feeling it was either on GL or ATWT. I guess we can attribute SORASing to Irna too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted June 6, 2020 Members Share Posted June 6, 2020 Undoubtedly! Please register in order to view this content Those actors did NOT read as father and daughter, fabulous as they were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted June 6, 2020 Members Share Posted June 6, 2020 ATWT Eileen Fulton (Lisa) was born in 1933 Don Hastings (Bob) was born in 1934 Their onscreen son Tom born 1961 Once SORASED played by these actors Peter Link born 1944 Peter Galman born 1944 C David Colson 1941 Ton Tammi born 1945 Justin Deas born 1948 Jason Kincaid born 1952 Gregg Marx born 1955 Scott Holes born 1952 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lcrtorch Posted June 7, 2020 Members Share Posted June 7, 2020 Genie Francis was only nine years older than Tyler Christopher (ex Nik). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members titan1978 Posted June 7, 2020 Members Share Posted June 7, 2020 (edited) They at least tried to make the math work. I think he was supposed to be 16-17, which was pretty close to what his actual age should have been. He didn’t look a day younger than 18, but he was supposed to be high school aged. Lucky was a little aged up too. But viewers had a decade of not seeing them so it was not a jarring situation. Pretty typical Hollywood sexism though for all these women to be so close in age to the actors hired to be their kids. Edited June 7, 2020 by titan1978 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BetterForgotten Posted June 7, 2020 Members Share Posted June 7, 2020 I guess it helped that GH tended to dress and style Genie so damn matronly in the 90’s that she often looked so much older than she really was... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members titan1978 Posted June 7, 2020 Members Share Posted June 7, 2020 They really seem more like a big brother and sister. What fun McKinsey must have had as Iris though. And the fight between Mac and Rachel at the end was pretty fantastic. They really did! The show had Laura often looking downright frumpy. Right before Lucky died they bought her all these new cloths, did a bunch of photo shoots, and she had a really flattering haircut with bangs that reminded me that Laura is not in the same age range as Monica. It was a welcome change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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