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8. Florence Pugh Was A Decade Older Than Her Character - Little Women

Actors play characters younger or older than themselves all the time, and where a gap of a mere few years is concerned, it's almost never noticeable.

But sometimes Hollywood takes the audience's suspension of disbelief to comical, credibility-snapping levels in this regard, and that's absolutely true of Florence Pugh's casting in Greta Gerwig's terrific adaptation of Little Women.

Pugh plays Amy, the youngest of the March sisters, who at the start of the story is just 12 years old, despite Pugh herself being 22 years of age at the time of filming.

While Pugh can certainly pass for a good few years younger than her actual age, an entire decade is a stretch at best.

To make matters worse, an early scene where Amy is glimpsed at school causes the entire illusion to break down. With Pugh sat next to actual children while wearing braided hair, it's tough not to laugh at how unconvincingly she passes as a 12-year-old.

Thankfully Pugh's Oscar-nominated performance is brilliant enough that most appeared to forgive this gaffe, and in the very least, it becomes less of a problem as the movie progresses and Amy gets older.