I loved this film and I thought Julie Walters was fabulous! There's one thing I don't quite get! Why did the writer let Rita be 26? I wouldn't say Julie Walters was old at that time (she was 32/33) but She doesn't look like 26 at all! It should have been, 30,31 or something!
share'cause the play was written by russel before he did the film
shareThe character was written vefore they cast Julie Walters, and besides, it's not uncommon for actresses to play characters older/younger than they actually are.
hence the term "character"
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shareshe played it on stage and they just kept the age the same, which they should not have because she really looks a lot older. She's a dear, but she just didn't age well.
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Yes, I've seen this movie a few times and I always thought she was at least 30.
shareI agree, I'm 24 but people say I look younger (same with a few of my friends) but I have mates the same age who get mistaken for in their early 30's. I don't really think theres a "right" age to look when your in your mid 20's if you get me, most people seem to appear younger or older than they are at that age.
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She looked like a 33 year old or maybe even older, especially after her character darkens her hair.
shareI agree. I'm catching this again right now, and I had been carrying around this mistaken memory that the character was in her thirties. I'm a bit stunned to hear her announce she's 26; Walters is terrific but she was not the kind of 33 year old, at the time, who could pull that off. For the movie, they should have taken artistic licence and switched the age up to 30. Would have complimented the whole "fish out of water" concept of this unexpected woman pursuing her education.
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She was slightly older 26 but really did not affect the film.
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She's a smoker. That ages people a lot. I am about 12 years younger than who this character is at the time this movie came out, and I and my group of friends were the first group of gals who everyone older was shocked at how young we looked when we were nearing 30. (Ha ha. It really pissed those boomers off.) We always said, and it was true, that all of our friends looked that way.
Then, all the gals younger than us were like us too. 30 isn't the same 30 that it was in the early 80s.
Plus we now have revolutionary face lotions, people sunbathed less growing up, and there is more of a premium placed on looking young longer. That really wasn't a driving force for people who were married already so young back then. So, her hair and makeup was influenced by older and less sophisticated people in the salon.
And some hair and clothing styles popular back then were rather frumpy and aging, though cute and hip at the time.
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