14 On-Screen Couples Who Looked Like They Had Some Age Difference But Actually Had A Lot More

Some movie stars seem to resist the passage of time either because of genetics, because they adopt certain personal care or because they undergo specific treatments. Therefore, many times certain celebrities are chosen to give life to characters with ages that are very different from those they are in real life. And in several cases, the result of this is the emergence of fictitious couples with different ages, although this is not so evident to the most inattentive eyes.

O awesome.club loves to find curiosities of this type. That’s why we thought of an article with a new selection of fictional couples who, in real life, are separated by many years of difference.

Ted, the most watched Universal Pictures film throughout 2012, had as protagonists Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, who live a love story in the plot. When the production opened, on June 29 of that year, Mark had just turned 41. Mila, on the other hand, was 28. We can say that the youth stamped on the faces of both was enviable.

The actors played Will Turner, a blacksmith’s apprentice, and Elizabeth Swann, the governor’s daughter. The two characters fall in love. The curious thing is that, during the recordings, Keira was 17 years old and Orlando, 25. When the film hit theaters, in June 2003, they had already celebrated their birthday. However, the age difference between the two is practically imperceptible.

In 2013, the film Hunting Gangsters was released, a police thriller directed by Ruben Fleischer. Within the plot is a couple formed by the city’s mobster, played by Sean Penn, and his lover, played by Emma Stone. Obviously, the two actors are from different generations, but the distance between their ages is still striking: Penn was 52 years old and Stone was 24.

Based on the well-known series from the 60s, this film directed by Peter Segal has a couple marked by their age difference. When Agent 86 was released in June 2008, Steve Carell was 45 years old, while Anne Hathaway was just 25.

In Scott Cooper’s musical drama, Bridges plays a country musician who falls madly in love with a journalist. She is played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who was 32 when the film was released in late 2009. She is 28 years younger than her fictional partner.

In this remake of Dial M Para Matar, directed by the famous Alfred Hitchcock, Gwyneth and Michael play a couple formed by a Wall Street executive and a United Nations translator. When the film hit theaters, Douglas was 53 years old and Paltrow was only 25. The curious thing is that the two actors have birthdays just two days apart: he was born on September 25th and she was born on the 27th.

In this feature film from the year 2000, framed in the genres of drama and romance, the story highlights the age difference, as Will Keane, Richard Gere’s character, falls in love with the daughter of an ex-girlfriend. She is none other than Winona Ryder, who was 28 years old at the premiere date. That was 22 years younger than Gere, who at the time was about to turn 51.

A meteor threatens to crash into Earth and the end of the world seems near. Dodge, played by Steve Carell, is dumped by his wife and goes in search of an ex-girlfriend from school in the company of his young neighbor, Penny (Keira Knightley). On the journey, both begin a beautiful relationship. The work premiered in 2012 when Carell was 49 and Knightley, 27.

The group of anti-heroes in this DC movie has two great characters: Joker and Harley Quinn. On the big screen they formed a very peculiar couple, marked by the high level of evil of both. The film hit theaters in July 2021, when Leto was 49 years old and Australian Margot Robbie was only 31.

This movie is one where Will Ferrell plays an absurdly large leprechaun. His character falls in love with Jovie, a worker at the North Pole who performs her tasks with some reluctance. She is played by Zooey Deschanel, who at the time of the release of Leprechaun in New York was 23 years old, while Ferrell was 36.

Another production derived from Marvel superheroes. In this case, what happens in WandaVision unfolds after the events of Avengers: Endgame. The miniseries stars Wanda and Vision, played by Elizabeth Olsen, who was 31 at the time of release, and Paul Bettany, then 49.

In the first film of the successful Lord of the Rings trilogy, Aragorn, played by Viggo Mortensen, and Arwen Undómiel, played by Liv Tyler, were 19 years apart. The film premiered in 2001, the year Viggo turned 43 and Liv turned 24.

On June 26, 2015, the sequel to Ted hit theaters. And among the protagonists was Amanda Seyfried, with whom Mark’s character falls in love. She is much younger than him. On opening day, the actress was 29 years old, and Wahlberg had just turned 44.

Jack Nicholson plays the owner of a record label that only dates women under 30. Therefore, the plot begins with him and his girlfriend, Marin Klein (Amanda Peet), traveling to the beach house of the young woman’s mother. In the 2003 romantic comedy, Nicholson was 66 years old and Peet was 31. Incidentally, one of the main topics of this film is the age difference issue.

For you, is the age difference something that influences your interest in someone? In your opinion, how does the passage of time affect life as a couple?