We watch a lot of high school movies but do all the high school characters are actually teenagers? Let’s find out. Here is the list of 9 Times when Popular Child Movie Characters Were Played By Adults and you didn’t even notice.
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Paul Walker
In the movie Varsity Blues, Paul Walker played the role of a small-town high school teenager while he was actually 26 years old. The movie premiered in 1999.
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Jesse Metcalfe
American actor and musician, Jesse Metcalfe played the title role in the movie John Tucker Must Die. He played the role of a high school basketball star but in reality, he was 28 years old at that time.
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Rachel McAdams
Rachel Portrayed the character of high school queen Regina George in the movie Mean Girls. The movie came out in 2004 and she was 26 at that time.
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Alan Ruck
Cameron Frye in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was played by Alan Ruck. He was a high school student in the movie but Alan was in her late 20s at that time. The movie was released in 1986.
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Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire played the role of Peter Parker in Spider-Man in 2002. He played the role of a high school senior student who got bitten by a radioactive spider and develops super spider power. Tobey was 27 years old when we played that role.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
In 2002 Leonardo DiCaprio played the role of a teenager in the movie Catch Me If You Can but at that time he was in his late 20s.
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Shirley Henderson
In the Movie Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets, Shirley Henderson played the role of Myrtle Warren. She was shown as a teenager but in reality, she was already in her late 30s.
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Tom Welling
Tom played the role of Charlie Baker in the movie Cheaper By the Dozen. He was shown as a high school senior in the movie but when the film came out in 2003, He was 26 at that time.
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Ralph Macchio
The Karate Kid is a movie that almost every kid has watched but did you ever wonder if Ralph Macchio who was playing the role of teenage boy Daniel LaRusso was actually a teenager or not? Well, He was not a teenager when he played that character. Ralph was actually 23 years old at that time
