20 of the Best ‘Younger Version’ Casting Decisions
Is there anything more frustrating than when a character has a flashback to a younger version of themselves that looks nothing like them? Okay, probably, but it’s a real “you had one job” situation. Sometimes, it can be overcome by having amazingly identical vibes, but if the phenotype and the vibotype are off, it just feels lazy.
That’s why it’s so special when the casting directors totally nail it. “The one that springs to my mind is Josh Brolin as a young Agent K, whose older version is played by Tommy Lee Jones, in Men in Black 3,” Redditor P0WERFIELD told r/Movies. “I remember when I first watched the movie when it came out back in 2012, I had zero problems believing that Brolin was a younger Agent K.”
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They then asked, “What do you think is the best casting of an actor to play a younger version of a character played by an older actor?” and quite a youth movement followed.