Pregnant at 61 or a mother aged three: why do movies love age-blind casting?
- Posted on December 17, 2025
- By The Guardian
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Pregnant at 61 or a mother aged three: why do movies love age-blind casting?

In Kate Winslet’s Goodbye June, Timothy Spall, 68, plays the father of Toni Collette, who is 53 – and pregnant. But those liberties are nothing compared with North by Northwest, The Manchurian Candidate or Thanksgiving