The twins playing the daughter Jenny have brown eyes, whereas the parents are both blue eyed. While it's *possible*, though very rare, for this to happen it's quite a bad decision to cast them like this as it's hard to believe.
shareIt's believable. It unbelieveae to say that kids with blonde haired blue eyed parent will have them too.
shareActually I agree with Beletje..... Its down to genetics... Which I have studied in horses and basic rules apply in humans too.
Blue eyes are recessive, brown eyes dominant. For a child to have blue eyes they MUST have received a blue eyed gene from BOTH parents. If they receive one brown gene their eyes will be brown... Even if they receive one brown and one blue. Because the brown gene is dominant over any blue gene. Can only have blue eyes with two blue genes....no brown in there.
Therefore if someone has blue eyes... They can't carry a brown eyed gene and therefore cannot pass on brown eyes to their off spring. So if you have two blued eyed parents... They cannot have a child with brown eyes. The law of genetics tells us this.
But I think that for the sake if a film we can overlook this for artistic interpretation..... More important that they cast children who could fill the role...it is only a film after all not real. Lol. :-)
That little girl looked nothing like those parents. NOTHING. It was probably a kid of a production guy or somebody did somebody a favor. Pathetic.
shareThe little girls were adorable, but seemed too old for the part. It was like they were trying to pretend "Jenny" was still a baby: carrying her around all the time, putting her in a crib, having her talk in short baby-talk sentences, etc.
shareby Beletje ยป Wed Oct 9 2013 17:21:12My brother and I both have blue eyes, but our parents both have brown eyes. Are you implying that we might be adopted?
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The twins playing the daughter Jenny have brown eyes, whereas the parents are both blue eyed. While it's *possible*, though very rare, for this to happen it's quite a bad decision to cast them like this as it's hard to believe.
Yours is the other way around and quite possible as brown eyes are dominant.
Two brown eyed parents who each carry the recessive gene for blue eyes have a 25% chance of having a blue eyed child.
In the movie, however, we have two blue eyed parents with a brown eyed daughter which is only possible if both parents carry the dominate gene for brown eyes. Otherwise blue eyed parents will almost always have blue eyed children.
I hear Bruce Jenner has a dominant brown eye.
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