28yo spinster too old to play girlfriend of 26yo actor

[DetlefK]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/silly-elizabeth-banks-thought-she-could-still-be-considered-spider-mans-love-interest-at-28_us_576ad3abe4b09926ce5d5f60



No man in his 20s would consider this old hag for girlfriend.

[Bluenorthwest]

1. What's with the word 'spinster'? Is this 1898?

Plus she's not a 'spinster' as she is married to Max Handelman. They have kids, that sort of thing. Married persons.

spin·ster
ˈspinstər/
nounderogatory
noun: spinster; plural noun: spinsters

an unmarried woman, typically an older woman beyond the usual age for marriage.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. It would be irony if 'spinster' was a dated word meaning 'ugly' but it is a word meaning 'unmarried'

So the use of the word is simply incorrect.

[Just reading posts]

2. While Tobey Maguire was indeed 26 at the time that film, he looked rather younger, and his character

of Peter Parker was only supposed to be 17 or or so (he was a senior in high school).

Perhaps if she looked like a teenager rather than an extremely attractive woman in her late '20s, she would have been considered for the role.

[Dorian Gray]

5. She's gorgoeus

Totally.

Having said that, she has a maturity about her that Tobey never had. He looks like a teenager still. (Not in a "he's so young and fresh" way, either.)

She has too much gravitas for him.