Stockard Channing was 33 when she played the high school senior Rizzo in Grease. Tobey Maguire was 32 during his stint as teenage Spider-Man. Michael J. Fox was in his late 20s, moonlighting as a 17-year-old, for Back to the Future. All three performances are beloved by fans of coming-of-age films, but there's one crucial thing missing from fictional high schools of the past: acne. Lately, directors of movies like Eighth Grade and Ladybird have opted to go light on makeup, showing their teen actors as they truly are - zit and acne scars included. Because of this, critics and audiences alike have predicted that these two films are heralding a more realistic era of high school films.
Sofia Wylie, a 14-year-old who plays a character just one year younger than her actual age on The Disney Channel's Andi Mack, believes that teen movies are entering the no-filter movement. "I think directors of my show want us to look like regular kids," she told POPSUGAR. "But movies and TV can go further. I think the acne element in Ladybird made the performances so much more relatable."
Of course, Ladybird and Eighth Grade are two indie movies that don't represent the industry as a whole. We asked Wylie and other young actors what it's like to work on mainstream sets like It and Riverdale with teen acne.
from POPSUGAR https://www.popsugar.com/beauty/Teen-Actors-Acne-45128411
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