New Law Forces IMDB To Remove the Age of Actors on Request

[Wildcard]

Its' not for the actors who've become well known. Its' for the up and coming actors in reality.

Or for people like Rebel Wilson who want to continue lying about being nearly a decade younger and not be outed.

 

[Marvolo]

This is silly. There are about a million other sites where you can find an actor's age.

 

[Kyle]

It should be on a case by case basis. If an actor or actress doesn't want their age on the net, then they absolutely should not be forced to have their age on the net. "But, it's our right to know!" Talent should be granted as much of a right to privacy as all of you have. "But they're celebrities!!!" They signed up for a job because they love the creative field, it's not their fault a lot of people go ravenous over every detail of their lives and many never asked for that it was just an unfortunate necessary evil. Those who want their age on the web and those who don't like with every other person in this world should have the right to keep private what they want. "But it's freedom of speech." Let's see you keep saying that if someone hacked into your computer and into your life and made public something that you wanted to keep private, chances are you'd stop saying that in a heartbeat. When it stops being something that has an impact on other peoples' lives, to me it stops being freedom of speech and veers into obvious invasion of privacy. For those who challenge my view on this, can we post what you don't want on the net in widely public and accessible websites?

Basically for once can people see that these are people we're talking about and nothing more than that.

 

[Marvolo]

It should be on a case by case basis. If an actor or actress doesn't want their age on the net, then they absolutely should not be forced to have their age on the net. "But, it's our right to know!" Talent should be granted as much of a right to privacy as all of you have. "But they're celebrities!!!" They signed up for a job because they love the creative field, it's not their fault a lot of people go ravenous over every detail of their lives and many never asked for that it was just an unfortunate necessary evil. Those who want their age on the web and those who don't like with every other person in this world should have the right to keep private what they want. "But it's freedom of speech." Let's see you keep saying that if someone hacked into your computer and into your life and made public something that you wanted to keep private, chances are you'd stop saying that in a heartbeat. When it stops being something that has an impact on other peoples' lives, to me it stops being freedom of speech and veers into obvious invasion of privacy. For those who challenge my view on this, can we post what you don't want on the net in widely public and accessible websites?

Basically for once can people see that these are people we're talking about and nothing more than that.

To put it bluntly, tough ****. Fact is once something is on the internet it's going to stay on the internet. Actors' ages are already on the internet and people already know their ages and mention it all across the internet. There is no known way to strip every single mention of an actor's age from every nook and cranny of the internet. And even if there was as soon as one mention of an actor's age was deleted someone would put the info online again. Actors need to accept this reality and get over it.

For instance, George Clooney is 55. That info is on internet, and it's known and repeated on Clooney fansites (if they exist) and on who knows how many other sites. How is his age going to be taken off the internet? No law can stop the spread of information that's on the internet or known by at least one person with internet access.

 

[Arachnerd]

I echo Marvolo's thoughts here. Once that information is on the Internet, it'll never go away, no matter how much you try to clean it off.

Whether the actors are okay with this or not is inconsequential if their age is already widely known through the web.

 

[terry78]

Wasn't that one chick suing IMDB for that? Nicole Bilderback back in the day? Her only claim to fame was Bring It On.

 

[Kyle]

Would it make a big dent now? For many no, HOWEVER I can state that I myself am guilty of looking up and trying to find that information online only to discover it's not anywhere on the internet yet. Those actors and actresses are the ones that this will effect and what happens now will be their choice as it rightfully should be, as well as anyone that comes after them. To me this isn't a short term game, if it was then you'd be right in that for a lot the opportunity has already come and gone - rather it's a long term one that would be gradually transitioned into.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

This is silly. There are about a million other sites where you can find an actor's age.

Even assuming IMDB is forced to do this, it wouldn't actually help the problem anyways. Casting departments that scour sites for this that exclude actors of a certain age will just automatically exclude anyone without an age listed anyways. It would end up like how mainstream theaters treat unrated movies.

 

[Wildcard]

Even assuming IMDB is forced to do this, it wouldn't actually help the problem anyways. Casting departments that scour sites for this that exclude actors of a certain age will just automatically exclude anyone without an age listed anyways. It would end up like how mainstream theaters treat unrated movies.

Bingo. So really, I don't see how this new law will help anything. It comes as much more of a hindrance than a help, especially when you point out that particular facet.

I do agree that ageism needs to be dealt with, but this isn't the way to go about doing that.

 

[Slade W]

The fact that actresses who are in their middle 30s+ are considered to old majority of the time to play the wives of guys like Adam Sandler is pathetic.

Agreed.

 

[Jay Beezy]

There needs to be equal opportunity for older and younger, male and female.

 

[chaseter]

Not shocked that this legislative idiocy is coming out of California.

 

[Greens]

There needs to be equal opportunity for older and younger, male and female.

Sorry to crush your dream, but that ain't gonna happen. Some fields favor certain ages/genders.

 

[TheVileOne]

Or for people like Rebel Wilson who want to continue lying about being nearly a decade younger and not be outed.

And Margot Robbie .

 

[chamber-music]

Actress Bianca Lawson played teenagers for twenty years so not looking your age certainly helps

The fact that actresses who are in their middle 30s+ are considered to old majority of the time to play the wives of guys like Adam Sandler is pathetic.

Agreed.

It can be a little creepy as well.

 

[Donnie Darko]

The fact that actresses who are in their middle 30s+ are considered to old majority of the time to play the wives of guys like Adam Sandler is pathetic.

While this is a big issue with other actors, I think the one you chose here actually has a good history of being with age-appropriate women in his movies.

-Salma Hayek (50)
-Jennifer Aniston (47)
-Leslie Mann (44)
-Drew Berrymore (41)

Granted, I haven't seen all of his movies (especially the recent ones), but I don't think he's too guilty of this. That being said, I'm almost two decades younger than her, and I would take Salma Hayek over 99.999% of women in my age range.