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Post by stargazer1682 on Jan 14, 2020 3:09:54 GMT
I get it, Days plays fast and loose with character ages, but seriously, how can the writers think they can believably make Kristen think for a second that Steve is claiming to be her biological fucking father?? I mean, admittedly, Stacy Haiduk is 51 and Stephen Nichols is 68; so from a certain mind set it's not strictly impossible - but come on. Obviously that wasn't something meant to be taken at face value; it was supposed to be her misinterpreting what Stevano was telling her, but that still shouldn't have seemed remotely plausible enough for her to have latched on to. Never mind that Kristen is supposed to be old enough to try and pass herself off as EJ's mother back in the day; and James Scott turns 41 tomorrow (yeah, let that sink in.... ). It'd be like Will being lead to believe for a second Chloe could somehow be his mother. A hyperbolic example, mind you; I tried looking up other comparison and some of the ages caught me a little off guard - like I thought about saying "it'd be like Brady trying to pass claim he could be Will's father" - only to find that Eric Martsolf is 48 fucking years old.... Then I thought, Nicole and Will? Even though Nicole and Sami were contemporaries, I still looked it up; Ari's 45, Chandler's 29 - so it's actually a more comparable comparison to Steve and Kristen, but then I looked Alison Sweeney as a reference point, and she's only 43 and I'm like, well shit.... Eugene really needs to get his ass back to Salem and fix the hole in the space-time continuum his time machine caused about 35-40 years back....
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Post by glozone on Jan 14, 2020 7:05:49 GMT
I bumped on that too. Kristen is definitely older than Stacy, who is 10 years younger than Eileen Davidson was. For the record, here are the birth years for these characters as laid out in the Days wiki, which usually is pretty accurate for whenever birth years (or birth years after aging, in the case of Brady) are laid out:
Steve Johnson was born in 1955 Kristen DiMera was born in 1964 Nicole Walker was born in 1975 Sami Brady was born in 1977 Brady Black was born in 1981 Will Horton was born in 1992 [So yes, Sami is now supposed to have been 15 when she had him, that's not way off, she was a teen mom, but she wasn't 15.
Let's have some fun and do the rest of the cast:
Doug Williams was born in 1926 Stefano DiMera was born in 1929 and died sometime between 2017 and 2019 Victor Kiriakis was born in 1935 Maggie Horton was born in 1943 Julie Williams was born in 1949 Roman Brady was born in 1950 Marlena Evans was born in 1951 Kate Roberts was born in 1951 too Tony DiMera also born in 1951 Abe Carver was born in 1953 John Black is listed as being born in 1958 but, c'mon, bullshit. He's got to be older than that. Dude was not in his 20s when we met him as "Roman". Plus his backstory is such a question mark. We were once asked to believe he was Stefano's little half-brother, born when Stefano was like 10. Justin Kiriakis was born in 1960 Kayla Brady was born in 1961 Jack Deveraux was born in 1964 Hope Brady was born in 1964 as well Adrienne Kiriakis was born in 1967, died in 2020 Eve Donovan was born in 1969 Jennifer Horton was born in 1970 Rafe Hernandez was born in 1973 Lucas Horton was born in 1975 Eric Brady was born in 1977 like his sister Xander Kiriakis was born in 1981 Sarah Horton was born in 1981 Chloe, Shawn, Belle, Philip and company were all born circa 1984 Lani Price was born in 1987 Ben Weston was born in 1989 Chad DiMera was born in 1990 Sonny Kiriakis was born in 1991 Abby Deveraux was born in 1992 Gabi Hernandez was born in 1992 J.J. Deveraux was born in 1995 Ciara Brady was born in 1997
Eli doesn't have a listed birthdate. He was apparently at some point referred to as being in his late 20s. Considering Chad should turn 30 this year, I'm going to go ahead and assume Eli is his very oldest possible. Maybe 29 the moment we met him and then he immediately turned 30, making him born in 1987 like Lani. Of course, this makes him Julie's grandson that was born when she was 38. But, hey, if it works for Sami... Would be helpful if Julie was older than 71, and she could pass for older certainly, but we come back to the fact that she was explicitly 16 when this show started in 1965 and also she has to be young enough to be the daughter of Addie who comfortably-age-wise married her beloved Doug.
I've fact-checked none of this. Maybe some of them are flat-out made up. But for the more veteran casts, these are birth years you consistently see over the years from wherever these things come from. Sometimes gravestones or just inferences made from when they graduated high school or sometimes the whole date is just stated. Some of these are surely made up though!
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Post by stargazer1682 on Jan 14, 2020 14:05:12 GMT
I feel like somehow this shouldn't blow my mind, because I knew he was up there in age, but how the hell is Doug/Bill Hayes 94??
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Post by glozone on Jan 14, 2020 18:59:01 GMT
I feel like somehow this shouldn't blow my mind, because I knew he was up there in age, but how the hell is Doug/Bill Hayes 94?? Agreed. I'd have put him in his mid-80s tops. Victor looks and seems substantially older than him.
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Post by leafs27 on Jan 14, 2020 19:20:44 GMT
94?! Blimey.
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Post by stargazer1682 on Jan 14, 2020 20:13:13 GMT
I feel like somehow this shouldn't blow my mind, because I knew he was up there in age, but how the hell is Doug/Bill Hayes 94?? Agreed. I'd have put him in his mid-80s tops. Victor looks and seems substantially older than him. I know. It's not exactly advanced math, but I seriously had to bring up the calculator on my phone, because the numbers weren't making sense. Admittedly, I was reading it over shortly after I woke up, but I'm looking at Doug's birth year and and I'm looking at Victor's and I'm like, wait, how old is Doug?
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Post by flyboyla on Jan 14, 2020 23:59:49 GMT
Bill Hayes looks amazing. I can’t get over how he still gets around so well. I hope he’s still around for a good while. I still love that he and Julie are still part of the show after all these years.
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