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A fairly common phenomenon associated with actors playing characters way younger than their actual age. As a result, many in society have become unable to recognize young adults by appearance. Hollywood blindness occurs when a thirty or twenty year old is assumed to be a teenager, because of the cultural bias that their youthful appearance may be similar to the majority of young adult Hollywood actors being cast as teenagers in movies instead of actual teenagers.
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