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We’ll have to sift through our interns to see if there’s any she-nanigans going on.

Riley Weston: the Screenwriter Who Successfully Pretended to Be a Teenager
Far Out Magazine | Sat 13 April 2024 | Aimee Ferrier

Hollywood is rife with problems …

… preventative anti-wrinkle creams are marketed to us before we’ve even hit 25 …

… Unbelievably, Maggie Gyllenhaal once revealed that she was told that, at age 37, she was “too old” to play a 55-year-old man’s love interest in a film.

… In the 1990s, Riley Weston caused a scandal when she posed as a teenager to get a job, successfully becoming part of the writing crew for Matt Reeves’ show Felicity.

… Changing her name from Kimberlee Seaman to Riley Weston, she told people she was 19 when she was actually 32.

… Weston managed to trick everyone around her, fabricating documents, using phrases popular with teenagers, and even bringing her mother to work with her on occasion. She did all she could to appear as though she was a recent high school graduate, convincing everyone to the point that she even guest-starred in Felicity as a teenage character.

I can see being fooled. Genetics.

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