{"id":254969,"date":"2021-05-20T23:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dear-evan-hansen-star-ben-platt-hits-back-at-jerks-joking-about-his-age\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T23:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:50:35","slug":"dear-evan-hansen-star-ben-platt-hits-back-at-jerks-joking-about-his-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dear-evan-hansen-star-ben-platt-hits-back-at-jerks-joking-about-his-age\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dear Evan Hansen Star Ben Platt Hits Back At &#8216;Jerks&#8217; Joking About His Age!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Dear Evan Hansen Star Ben Platt Hits Back At &#8216;Jerks&#8217; Joking About His Age!<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"text\">\nThe trailer for\u00a0<em>Dear Evan Hansen<\/em> finally dropped on Tuesday, and it\u2019s the first chance many will have to experience the Broadway hit about the pain of coming of age in those awkward teenage years.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately a big portion of the audience couldn\u2019t focus on the moving musical moments \u2014 because they couldn\u2019t get past the star\u2019s age!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: Mischa Barton Finally Talks About Why She Really Quit\u00a0<em>The O.C.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Platt<\/strong> is a genuine phenom, originating the title role at the age of just 22, ultimately winning the\u00a0<strong>Tony<\/strong> after the production moved up to Broadway. Unfortunately that was in 2015. The singer is now 27 and, according to quite a few viewers, WAY too old to be playing a high schooler.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dear Evan Hansen - Official Trailer [HD]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g_c_Jd-hP-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few of the reactions on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ben Platt in the Dear Evan Hansen trailer: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hSEfk28IEd\">pic.twitter.com\/hSEfk28IEd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 caitlin (@caitlinhberg) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitlinhberg\/status\/1394673672510754821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ben platt in the dear evan hansen trailer <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IkrwoEk67x\">pic.twitter.com\/IkrwoEk67x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 screaming into the void (@fruitskywalker) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fruitskywalker\/status\/1394691698450702337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ben Platt as a high school student in Dear Evan Hansen <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BQWlNnfxXQ\">pic.twitter.com\/BQWlNnfxXQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erin Somers (@SomersErin) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SomersErin\/status\/1394808292766068737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ben platt during his first day of shooting dear evan hansen (2021) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MBaVoM3mha\">pic.twitter.com\/MBaVoM3mha<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 d\u2019artagnan | ???????????????????????????????????????? (@ayellowlamp) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ayellowlamp\/status\/1394677983084953606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i understand why they cast Ben Platt as Evan Hansen, i don&#8217;t understand why they made him look about ten years older than he is. i honest to god thought this was Kyle Mooney at first. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z1isJTW5sr\">pic.twitter.com\/Z1isJTW5sr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Malcolm eXt(rem)e (@tahukann) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tahukann\/status\/1394702224085987334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">idk what everyone\u2019s talking about, Ben Platt looked fine in the Dear Evan Hansen trailer <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lGrxDD7CNc\">pic.twitter.com\/lGrxDD7CNc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 jonny jon jon butter shabadoo (@thejonbutter) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejonbutter\/status\/1394702689884311555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ben platt filming school scenes for dear evan hansen <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W5SEVQsnH8\">pic.twitter.com\/W5SEVQsnH8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 sophie (@dayloadrun_) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dayloadrun_\/status\/1394686012597678080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, there\u2019s a lot of that.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, Ben saw it. On Wednesday he tweeted \u2014 and then deleted \u2014 a response to the trailer\u2019s reception,\u00a0<em>including<\/em> all the age comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cthank u from the bottom of my [heart] for the outpouring of trailer love yesterday.\u00a0the film required me to revisit areas of personal pain, so seeing ppl excited &amp; moved makes it so deeply worth it. <strong>PS to the randos being jerks about age, read this great article and\/or watch grease<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is\u00a0<em>Grease<\/em> the best example of why this would work? That film is a classic, to be sure, but it\u2019s become infamous in recent years for the cast all looking WAY TOO OLD to be in school. It\u2019s kind of a punchline at this point.<\/p>\n<p>The other issue, of course, is that it was the\u00a0<em>entire<\/em> cast who was too old in <em>Grease<\/em>. It evened things out. Just imagine, if Rizzo actually looked 17, Kenickie would look like a real creep. Well, more of a creep.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/q9BrrkHd6LEdO\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/q9BrrkHd6LEdO\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"Burger Grease GIF - Find &amp; Share on GIPHY\" height=\"206\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article Platt linked to is an interview in <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> in which he more directly addresses the age issue. He told the mag the studio was aware and had been scrambling to get the big screen adaptation done before he got too old:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think everybody obviously had in their minds that I wasn\u2019t going to stay teen-adjacent forever. The need to get it done was a little urgent. Then of course the pandemic h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened, and I kind of assumed that was that \u2014 it would be a no-go, and by the time the pandemic was over, I\u2019d have outgrown it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Even <em>he<\/em> thought he was too old? Then why not recast? Director <strong>Stephen Chbosky<\/strong>, who also helmed the adaptation of\u00a0<em>The Perks of Being A Wallflower<\/em>, was adamant it had to be Platt in the starring role, age or no:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou just have to hear him sing the songs. His understanding of the character is so complete and so profound. I couldn\u2019t imagine anybody else playing it. It\u2019s his part. I felt very strongly about it. And to me it was never even a consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019re sure it probably made no difference that the producer of the film is Ben\u2019s father, <strong>Marc Platt<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As to his appearance, Ben explained he grew his hair out and \u201cwas shaving to make sure that I didn\u2019t look like I had five o\u2019clock shadow all the time\u201d to try to pass for a high schooler:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was just s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ping myself into being a teenager for the last time. For what is hopefully the last time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What do YOU think? Should they have recast the role? Or is it too important to the show that they have the original actor??<\/p>\n<p><em>[Image via <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g_c_Jd-hP-s\">Universal Pictures<\/a>\/<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fiOMbqPHFwo\">30 Rock<\/a>\/YouTube.]<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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