When I saw the trailer for the forthcoming movie The Silver Linings Playbook, I started noticing a troublesome trend in recent films. Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence co-star in this movie, and it looks like there’s some sort of spark between them—the thing is, Cooper is 37, and Lawrence is 22.
Once you’re looking for it, it’s hard not to notice that Hollywood films are full of beautiful young starlets falling for men far their senior, and this dynamic is rarely reversed to a younger man liking an older woman.
Are we really supposed to buy that such young women are constantly falling for men that much older than them? When you pay attention, though, you realize Hollywood is constantly asking you to believe in highly improbable couples. Here are a few.
Leighton Meester and Hugh Laurie in The Oranges
It’s the same story here, only worse! In the upcoming film The Oranges, these two have an affair. However, in real life, Meester is 26, and Laurie is 53… more than twice her age.
