Name A 28-Year-Old | Defector

"Perhaps you're thinking, I've figured this out-surely Sabrina Carpenter is 28. Disney Channel background, they always cast older than the roles they play, Short n' Sweet was technically her sixth studio album. Bzzzt, wrong, she's 26. Ah, silly me, you're thinking, she only got truly famous post-Covid, I need someone from the generation of Disney stars just before her. They must be 28."

"Now your thoughts turn naturally to Timothée Chalamet, the most 28-year-old waif alive. He dates a Jenner (one of the most 28-year-old things you can do), there's footage of him as a preteen dancing to Soulja Boy (putting him somewhere between 10 and 12 in 2008), and he's displaying increasingly Oscar-thirsty behavior (Leonardo DiCaprio was 28 when Catch Me If You Can and Gangs of New York were released). Timothée Chalamet is 29. Despite the fact that this is temporally and spiritually impossible, it i"

A challenge asks readers to name a famous 28-year-old without looking it up. Common guesses receive corrections with exact ages: Zendaya 29, Gracie Abrams 26, Paul Mescal 29, Hannah Einbinder 30, Julia Garner 31. Disney-associated names are corrected: Sabrina Carpenter 26, Debby Ryan, Miley Cyrus, and Bridgit Mendler 32, Dove Cameron 29, Olivia Rodrigo 22, Joshua Bassett 24. Attention shifts to Timothée Chalamet as an archetypal 28-year-old figure but notes he is actually 29 and juxtaposes his Oscar-aspiring behavior with footage of youthful dancing. A mocking, taunting tone accompanies the corrections and emphasizes the surprising age disparities and the confusion around shared romances.

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