Actors Who Were Way Too Old for Their Roles

Everyone in ‘Wet Hot American Summer’

USA Films

This one was intentional and played for humor, but almost the entire cast of the 2001 cult comedy film “Wet Hot American Summer,” including future stars like Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, and Elizabeth Banks, were entirely too old to play teenage summer camp counselors. When Netflix decided to revive the movie as a series in 2015, set during the same summer, they kept the cast intact, gifting us with a bunch of high schoolers played by forty-somethings.

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