"To be able to enjoy Kate Winslet's new Christmas movie, Goodbye June, you have to be able to do a couple of things. First, if you've ever suffered any form of bereavement, you may have to approach it slowly, since the film is explicitly about the death of a parent. But the other thing you need to do is not Google the age of any of the cast."
"The titular June is played by Dame Helen Mirren, and her husband is played by Timothy Spall. Fine actors and national treasures, the pair of them. However, Mirren is 80 years old, and Spall is 68. Again, this is fine. You have undoubtedly met couples with bigger age gaps than this, and in all probability they are perfectly happy together. The problem, however, comes when you factor in the ages of their children."
"One of the siblings is played by Toni Collette. Toni Collette is 53 years old, and you're already way ahead of me here, aren't you? Andrea Riseborough, Johnny Flynn, Kate Winslet and Timothy Spall in Goodbye June. Photograph: AP In order to square this circle, you have to accept that Mirren's character must have been 28 years old when she had Collette, but Spall must have been just 15."
Goodbye June centers on a dying parent and four siblings who must set aside differences during the crisis. The casting places Dame Helen Mirren and Timothy Spall as the parents, aged 80 and 68 respectively, while one adult child is played by Toni Collette, age 53. The resulting implied ages suggest Mirren's character would have been 28 at childbirth while Spall's character would have been 15, an unmentioned and awkward implication. Casting older or younger actors than characters is common, but visible age gaps among parents and children can create distracting implausibility for viewers.
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