Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26509198-20160713214402/@comment-91424-20160715230231

Eskaver wrote: Well, if you give them the money then I'm sure they would do it for you. Have a spare 100k lying around? Okay, calm down. This is a completely innocent discussion about a character's age, and casting choices. There is no need to jump down someone's throat like that. Snide remarks are not acceptable.

Anyway, this is my own, personal opinion: Barbara playing a 30-something Cora in "Bleeding Through" is exceeding the bounds of reason, even on television. Barbara Hershey was 68 when the episode was filmed (it was filmed in February this year, and Barbara was born in February 1948), and even with a bit of "it's television and all that" leeway, there is no way that a character is in their early thirties when the actor is almost 70. Lana Parilla can pull off a very young Regina (like in "The Stable Boy"), but that is because Lana herself is still relatively young, and not an older woman. The same thing can't be said for Barbara (and no, I am not saying this to criticize her; she is a great actress, and I have nothing against her).

Is it so unreasonable to assume that Cora could have been about forty when she gave birth to Zelena? That would make her in her early fifties in "Sisters", which is far more reasonable than her being in her early thirties.