They change the birth dates on soaps to fit whatever storyline they want to plug. But as a viewer you realize it is not probable and in some cases so improbable it is laughable. I'm watching a soap now - in which I watched a kid get born on screen around 2003, but they changed his birth date to 1995. Which is impossible, because they parents didn't meet until 1999, (also his mother wasn't even on the show until 1996) and his older brother wasn't born until 1997 (another father - and two years before she met this kid's father).
Long-time soap viewers just handwave ages or laugh at them. I've seen them de-age characters on soaps, a character should be say 45, but with a new actor, they become 35.
Also they often have a situation in which the people playing the parents are say, two-three years older, than the actor playing their son or daughter.
To make matters worse? In this same soap? They changed the ages of all the kids born on screen.
Josslyn was born in 2009 - she's now 20. (LOL!) Spencer was born in 2006 - he's now 21 Cameron was born in 2004 - he's now 20 (he actually is the only who is the right age) Molly was born in 2005 and is now being played by a woman who is 39, married and having a kid by a surrogate, also working as an ADA. She's older than all of them.
Logic kind of gets thrown out the window when it comes to soaps.
They start out trying to use a child actor who would be the same age as the kid in the soap, and to the extent possible try to stick with that child actor as long as possible.
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Date: 2023-09-01 02:02 am (UTC)Long-time soap viewers just handwave ages or laugh at them. I've seen them de-age characters on soaps, a character should be say 45, but with a new actor, they become 35.
Also they often have a situation in which the people playing the parents are say, two-three years older, than the actor playing their son or daughter.
To make matters worse? In this same soap? They changed the ages of all the kids born on screen.
Josslyn was born in 2009 - she's now 20. (LOL!)
Spencer was born in 2006 - he's now 21
Cameron was born in 2004 - he's now 20 (he actually is the only who is the right age)
Molly was born in 2005 and is now being played by a woman who is 39, married and having a kid by a surrogate, also working as an ADA. She's older than all of them.
Logic kind of gets thrown out the window when it comes to soaps.
They start out trying to use a child actor who would be the same age as the kid in the soap, and to the extent possible try to stick with that child actor as long as possible.