Emma, Jennifer and Scarlett Have An Older Man Problem

[summer]

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Emma Stone is a mere 26 years old, but in the last cinematic year, she’s had four onscreen love-interests who were over 40, including two male characters who were impotent. Jennifer Lawrence is Hollywood’s most in-demand young actress, but ever since she won her Oscar, it’s hard for her to find a screen lover who isn’t approaching middle age. And Scarlett Johansson has been paired with older actors so often that when she romanced Mark Ruffalo in this summer’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, their 17-year age difference was the least nitpicked aspect of their union. These three young, smoky-voiced actresses are often referred to as wise beyond their years, and in 2015, they’ve all got the graying love-interests to match that perception. It isn’t news that Hollywood likes to pair its older men with younger women, but as these charts will show, there’s surely something unusual going on when the three hottest actresses in the 30-and-under bracket are routinely steered toward men of a certain age.





2011 was a breakout year for Emma Stone, who spent that annum filming The Amazing Spider-Man and topping the box office with her twofer of Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Help. It was also the year that the then-49-year-old Jim Carrey found himself so intoxicated by Stone that he put out a YouTube video fantasizing about a potential sex life with her that would eventually produce “chubby little freckle-faced kids.” People recoiled from Carrey’s proposal at the time, but maybe he was onto something: Aside from the Spider-Man franchise that paired her with real-life beau Andrew Garfield (who’s only five years older), Stone has since spent her tenure on the A-list beaming at men old enough to be her father, including Gangster Squad’s Sean Penn (54 at the time of release), and Colin Firth (53) in the comedy Magic in the Moonlight, from noted May-December advocate Woody Allen. Last winter, she wooed the impotent Edward Norton (45) in Birdman, and a few weeks ago, she squired the similarly flaccid Joaquin Phoenix (40) in Woody Allen’s Irrational Man, which played at Cannes. And then there’s this past weekend’s troubled Aloha, where the petite Stone feels so ill-matched with her 40-year-old screen lover Bradley Cooper that Hitfix’s Drew McWeeny wrote how Cooper “comes off as a sad, broken old man who is attracted to her youth like a vampire.” Yikes!






Jennifer Lawrence had no love interest in the Oscar-nominated Winter’s Bone, so for most audiences, the first time she showed off her sexual side was when she clambered into Michael Fassbender’s bed in X-Men: First Class in an attempt to seduce the 14-years-older actor. (At first, his character brushes her off by saying, “Maybe in a few years,” but a minute later, they’re locking lips. So much for that age difference.) Not long after, Lawrence booked The Hunger Games and vaulted into Hollywood’s top echelon, and if it weren’t for the teen-targeting sequels to that movie, where she gets to kiss young peers like Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, she’d be exclusively matched with much older men onscreen. In two separate movies, she’s hooked up with Bradley Cooper (who was old enough to drive when Lawrence was born), and director David O. Russell routinely pairs her with actors who are pushing 40, including Cooper, Christian Bale in American Hustle, and Edgar Ramirez in this winter’s Joy. Later in the year, Lawrence is expected to shoot the romantic drama Passengers opposite another actor who’ll be in his late 30s, Chris Pratt. It’s further confirmation that like Stone, Lawrence’s ascent to the A-list will continue to push her into the arms of older men.





At 30, Scarlett Johansson has had the longest career of these three actresses, and since it began with roles in which she came on to Billy Bob Thornton (in The Man Who Wasn’t There) and shared a deep, platonic affair with Bill Murray (in Lost in Translation) before she was even out of her teens, perhaps it should come as no surprise that Johansson frequently struggles to find love interests who are near her own age. She’s much more likely to make out with men who’ve got more than 15 years on her, as she did with Hugh Jackman in Scoop, Aaron Eckhart in The Black Dahlia, Javier Bardem in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Jon Favreau in Chef, and Mark Ruffalo in Avengers: Age of Ultron, to name just several of her older screen paramours. In real life, Johansson is married to a man who’s two years older than she is, but in the movies, I don’t think she’s ever dated someone that close in age.

[LadySusan]

Kissing Sean Penn:

 

Oh, also Billy Bob.  Especially since he played that creeper in Love Actually, that's all I see.

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Jun 7, 2015 0:23:57 GMT -5 LadySusan said:

Kissing Sean Penn:

 

Oh, also Billy Bob.  Especially since he played that creeper in Love Actually, that's all I see.

Billy Bob Thornton played a creepy guy and Scarlett played a teenager in The Man Who Wasn't There. It's been a long time since I've seen it but I remember really liking it.

[LadySusan]

Jun 7, 2015 0:28:25 GMT -5 @kcpokergal said:

Jun 7, 2015 0:23:57 GMT -5 LadySusan said:

Kissing Sean Penn:

 

Oh, also Billy Bob.  Especially since he played that creeper in Love Actually, that's all I see.

Billy Bob Thornton played a creepy guy and Scarlett played a teenager in The Man Who Wasn't There. It's been a long time since I've seen it but I remember really liking it.

And you liked it?

[cookiemdough]

I didn't read past the graph, but I am not surprised. unlike aging women in Hollywood, this makes aging men seem desirable and so far more men can continue their acting careers for much longer.

[ttt]

Gee, I wonder who's making the final casting decisions for these movies?

[emisi]

Billy Bob Thornton and Bill Murray are the most egregious, I think. What 16 year old in her right mind would go for Billy Bob?!

[bychance]

Jun 7, 2015 12:39:57 GMT -5 cookiemdough said:

I didn't read past the graph, but I am not surprised. unlike aging women in Hollywood, this makes aging men seem desirable and so far more men can continue their acting careers for much longer.

The "men age like fine wine" (or "get better with age") is just a myth created for men to extend the time they are perceived as attractive so they continue to court young women.

[mx27]

Jun 7, 2015 20:56:01 GMT -5 bychance said:

Jun 7, 2015 12:39:57 GMT -5 cookiemdough said:

I didn't read past the graph, but I am not surprised. unlike aging women in Hollywood, this makes aging men seem desirable and so far more men can continue their acting careers for much longer.

The "men age like fine wine" (or "get better with age") is just a myth created for men to extend the time they are perceived as attractive so they continue to court young women.

yup, b.s., just like the "dad bod" "craze."