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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
It's not that it's hard to prove, it's that it really doesn't exist, legally, at least not in the same way you would apply it to other types of jobs. If a production company refused to hire a gaffer for the crew due to his age, that would be age discrimination, but refusing to hire an actress because her age doesn't meet what the casting director is seeking for the role isn't age discrimination.
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If you can play the role and you fit the appearance of the role, should age even be a consideration? Clearly a 70 year old actress is going to have a tough time looking like a 7 year old character, but that's an extreme case. But what of a 40 year old actress playing a 30 year old character? That should be doable, yet hiring someone based upon arbitrary range of ages (say 25 to 35) and that actress is out of the running. I'm not sure how casting is done, but I could quite easily imagine someone being left out of the running based upon a database query simply because computers can't tell the difference.