David Fincher’s “Mank” is the latest Hollywood film with a huge age discrepancy between the actors playing an onscreen couple — in this case, 29 years between Gary Oldman and Tuppence Middelton. (That’s all the more jarring since screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz and his wife, Sara, were the same age in real life.) Here are other examples of Hollywood’s mismatched casting choices.
Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman” (1990)
Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond in “Sabrina” (1995)
Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt in “As Good As It Gets” (1997)
Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow in “A Perfect Murder” (1998)
James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Secretary” (2002)
Jack Nicholson and Amanda Peet in “Something’s Gotta Give” (2003)
Choi Min-sik and Kang Hye-jung in “Oldboy” (2003)
Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in “Lost in Translation” (2003)
Steve Martin and Claire Danes in “Shopgirl” (2005)
Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba in “Sin City” (2005)
Alan Rickman and Jayne Wisener in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (2007)
Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz in “Elegy” (2008)
Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway in “Get Smart” (2008)
Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart” (2009)
Robert De Niro and Milla Jovovich in “Stone” (2010)
Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara in “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” (2011)
Colin Firth and Emma Stone in “Magic in the Moonlight” (2014)
