But then we put in people who look like us. It’s like if we actually put 15 and 16-year-olds in these teen shows and movies that we make, we’d all be like, what the–? You know, it wouldn’t be funny, wouldn’t be sexy. Penn was quick to echo those sentiments, arguing that if real teenagers had been cast in their place, the world would’ve been up in arms. So that like kind of messes with you, too.” It’s a 20-year-old, but my brain is being told that it’s a 16-year-old. Right now, I’m watching a 16-year-old have sex and watching a 16-year-old in lingerie and their body… but actually, it’s not a 16-year-old. They’re watching it thinking that is what a 16-year-old looks like. So whoever was looking at it, certainly girls that were actually 16, I was playing a 16-year-old. “And then like, in a bed with someone or whatever.
“I’m 20 years old at the time, doing scenes of not just, like, having like sex or like, you know, sexual–like, fantasy stuff,” Leighton explained on the podcast.
