Her having been born on December 12th, 1970 she was 15 and a half when the film was released in the U.S. on June 27th, 1986 (Toby's real life 2nd birthday, I *think*) but yes she was 14 during the filming. She has said as much in interviews and she of all people would know ;). I used to think she looked older than her age in it but after a closer look I could see the early teen look in her face. Not sure how to explain better. While being interviewed for the 30th anniversary theatrical release last
September (even though the actual 30th anniversary took place in June last year), she spoke about how much of a not-so-savvy teen she was when she did the film and behind the ball on David Bowie's popularity/did not know how cool he was :). She said, though, that the fact of her not really being aware enabled her to work with him without being too starstruck, her also saying had she known what a big star he was she would possibly have been way too nervous to do the film with him. I have to say I guess that contributed to my noticing how young she was, maybe a little more mature in looks but young in personality. She also mentioned a friend of her's at the time loved David Bowie, had pictures of him on her bedroom wall, etc., and when Jen told her she was doing the movie with him, her friend ripped down all her Bowie pictures and started talking about how "uncool" he was. Jen went on to say it was when this happened that she realized her friend this meant that, "yeah, he was probably pretty cool." :-D
And yes she now looks pretty similar as she did back then. She does look naturally older but all in all really hasn't changed much.
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