I didn’t realize until now that both Hickman and Denver were 24 year olds playing high-school students in the first season of that show. Not that unusual, though (e.g., much of the cast of Beverly Hills 90210, mid-20s Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller, etc.);
I’ve wondered (not enough to actually go check) about all those high school kids in “Friday Night Lights”...
You don’t want to know how old Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels were when they started doing The Lone Ranger and Tonto.
Rarely do teens make good actors — they are too much consumed with being teens to know how to act like one in a comprehensible manner on cue.
35 year old Steve McQueen played a 16 year-old Max Sand.