They made the right decision, because the young actors are excellent and have a great dynamic with their on-screen father Jeremy Renner. As noted, it's a problem they've faced before in the case of Cassie Lang, but this time they decided not to do the recast. Marvel was faced with a difficult choice: either recast the child actors, or accept they wouldn't look quite right, hoping that audiences wouldn't pay too close attention to the childrens' timeline. There is no concrete information on Ben Sakamoto and Ava Russo's exact ages, but they at least appear closer to their ambiguously-aged teenage counterparts in the series, if not slightly older than they should be in the MCU's timeline. However hard Marvel tried, they really couldn't make Cade Woodward look four. That means Nathaniel should really be about four years old in the new Hawkeye series, but he's now played by a 10-year-old actor. The problem is especially pronounced for Nathaniel, who-according to Avengers: Age of Ultron-was born in 2015.Īll the Barton children were erased from existence when Thanos snapped his fingers in the closing moments of Avengers: Infinity War, returning when the Avengers reversed this in 2023. Hawkeye seems to be set around Christmas 2024, over a year and a half after Avengers: Endgame, but the children all look a little too old. Ava Russo plays his daughter Lila, Ben Sakamota plays older brother Cooper, while the youngest of the Barton siblings, Nathaniel, is played by Cade Woodward.
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The Hawkeye Disney+ TV series falls foul of this problem in a different way, simply because Marvel chose to keep the same actors in place from Avengers: Endgame, which saw all of Barton's children "snapped" away by Thanos. Related: Why Hawkeye Is Deaf In His MCU Show (How It Happened) Josh Brolin is a talented actor with a diverse filmography including The Goonies, No Country for Old Men, and Deadpool 2. Marvel dodged that bullet by changing Sprite's powers, allowing for a potential return of the character even as her actor ages. Thanos was originally played by actor and stuntman Damion Poitier in the post-credits scene for The Avengers before being played by Josh Brolin for the rest of his MCU appearances. Kathryn Newton will become the third actor to play Cassie in Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania. Marvel's Eternals faced an even greater problem, featuring Lia McHugh as an immortal trapped in the body of a child, making it almost impossible for her character to return. Avengers: Endgame faced this problem with a 5-year time jump that saw Abby Ryder Fortson's Cassie Lang recast in favor of the older Emma Fuhrmann. That's a particularly significant problem in the MCU, where the passage of time has been an important part of the narrative.
There's a simple reason why superhero films and TV shows don't use child actors especially often-children age, and their physical growth serves as a marker of passing time.
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