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28yo spinster too old to play girlfriend of 26yo actor (Original Post) DetlefK Jun 2016 OP
What's with the word 'spinster'? Is this 1898? Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author rjsquirrel Jun 2016 #3
It would be irony if 'spinster' was a dated word meaning 'ugly' but it is a word meaning 'unmarried' Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #4
While Tobey Maguire was indeed 26 at the time that film, he looked rather younger, and his character Just reading posts Jun 2016 #2
She's gorgoeus Dorian Gray Oct 2016 #5
 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
1. What's with the word 'spinster'? Is this 1898?
Fri Jun 24, 2016, 09:06 AM
Jun 2016

Plus she's not a 'spinster' as she is married to Max Handelman. They have kids, that sort of thing. Married persons.

spin·ster
ˈspinstər/
nounderogatory
noun: spinster; plural noun: spinsters

an unmarried woman, typically an older woman beyond the usual age for marriage.

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Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
4. It would be irony if 'spinster' was a dated word meaning 'ugly' but it is a word meaning 'unmarried'
Fri Jun 24, 2016, 09:34 AM
Jun 2016

So the use of the word is simply incorrect.

 

Just reading posts

(688 posts)
2. While Tobey Maguire was indeed 26 at the time that film, he looked rather younger, and his character
Fri Jun 24, 2016, 09:18 AM
Jun 2016

of Peter Parker was only supposed to be 17 or or so (he was a senior in high school).

Perhaps if she looked like a teenager rather than an extremely attractive woman in her late '20s, she would have been considered for the role.

Dorian Gray

(13,469 posts)
5. She's gorgoeus
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 06:33 AM
Oct 2016

Totally.

Having said that, she has a maturity about her that Tobey never had. He looks like a teenager still. (Not in a "he's so young and fresh" way, either.)

She has too much gravitas for him.

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