When Young Actors Put On “Old Face”
<p>Popular culture is rife with negative representatives of elderhood. Older individuals are often exemplified as weak, infirm, cognitively impaired, or stubborn. These are negative stereotypes, and we see them in comedy shows, cartoons, and news outlets.</p>
<p>And yet, for some reason such representations do not receive the same public outcry and backlash as other aspects of identity.</p>
<p>One of the most recent examples that I’ve witnessed occurred on the 12/9/2023 broadcast of <a href="https://youtu.be/bRAe8oxDZnE?si=un5Gp3Zfz6P9Bhqx" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Saturday Night Live</em></a> with guest host Adam Driver. In one clip, many of the young cast members of the sketch comedy troupe were portrayed as older citizens who were being pranked in various ways. Sure, the individuals carrying out the pranks were intended to appear hedonistic, vapid, and crude. Yet, the “older” characters were decked out in full parody, or what I refer to as “Old Face”: gray hair, canes, bumbling speech, tottering step, and rigid/self-centered perspectives.</p>
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