Sienna Miller: too young?

Few Hollywood ladies have ever been kicked off a set for being too young, but Sienna Miller had just that happen to her on the set of the umptieth Robin Hood retelling Nottingham. Of course it could also be because she can’t act herself out of a paper bag, but so far the word is: too young to play Russell Crowe’s love interest. 

I’m glad there’s some attention being paid to waaaay too young girls playing opposite waaaaay too old geezers. There’s so many girls playing opposite guys who could easily have been their grandads and a lot of ‘older’ actresses (and we’re talking early forties!) can’t get any roles. 

That’s why I made a top 6 of the worst couple mismatches ever:

Number 1:

Firewall: Virginia Madsen vs Harrisson Ford
This movie was CRAP too begin with, but without any explanation, Virginia Madsen was a 42 year old knock out and Ford was a 66 year old, old timer, very unconvincingly fighting terrorists or whatever the hell they were in the crappy plot trying to steal a big chunk of change from a bank by kidnapping the security director’s ridiculously young family. 

Number 2: Entrapment. 

Sean Connery, born way back in 1930, gets Catherine Zeta Jones, born in Swansea in 1969, yes, that’s a whopping FORTY years later, to fall for him. Now I know that Sean’s cute an’ all, but puhlease! That’s just icky! Then again CZJ does like her men on the mature side, as she married Michael Douglas, who was born in 1944. 

3) A view to a kill

And while we’re on the subject of James Bond, Roger Moore, born in 1927 (!) (yes, Connery’s replacement was actually older! And had to wear a girdle in later films!) in his final Bond flic, got it on with Tanya Roberts (1955). When they kissed his neck looked like a turtle’s. Cradle snatcher. However, his other costar, Grace Jones, in real life has a husband who’s 28 years her junior.

4) 6 days, 7 nights
 Harrison Ford. Again. This time vs Anne Heche. Now this is one of the most unsympathetic films ever made and luckily won’t go down in history at all, but still: Ford is 27 years older than annoying -I’m gay, no, I’m not-Heche. 

5) In the line of fire
Great film, but the casting could have been done slightly more realistically! Clint Eastwood got it on with Renee Russo, 24 years his junior. Now Clint is a goodlooking hunk of a man, but it felt just a little off. If it had been the other way around, cougar lady getting it on with a guy 24 years her junior that would’ve been the main subject of the film. Now it’s presented as a completely natural love sideline. Aren’t there any eligible gals his own age??  

6) Autumn in New York

Sucked. Badly.
But the worst part was that Richard Tiffany Gere (I can never take Gere seriously ever since I found out his middle name is Tiffany. Poor bastard) vs Winona Horowitz, aka Winona -no really I paid for that lipstick-Ryder. Now, both these actors have had their fair share of ridicule: him for preferring gerbils to actual girls and her for shoplifting her way out of a career.   Yes, it was about an elderly playboy finally finding true love with a way too young dying girl, but still. It’s just creepy.

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