Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26509198-20160713214402/@comment-91424-20160717014520

It is quite possible that they had to work with what is the more cost effective. But that doesn't mean, in any way whatsoever, that Cora must have been in her early twenties when she gave birth to Zelena. Cora's age has never been stated, not once, and saying that that she must be in her thirties in "Sisters", is speculation. Cora definitely looks like an older woman in the episode, so personally, I think it is far more likely that her character is a middle-aged/older woman at this point, rather than being a woman in her early thirties who looks like a seventy-year old.