Right, I know that whatever age he's got as Philip it's not going to be his actual birthday. It's more that it just seemed instinctively wrong to put any significant age difference between them. Three years isn't that significant, I guess. I think there's 2 years between MR and KR. But I like the idea of them both teenagers when they're stuck together.
Also, just realized that both ages we're talking about come from Philip's fake backstory anyway, so there's just as much reason to take the ID of somebody the same age as Mikhail as there is to have Philip's dad die when he was the same age as Mikhail.
Actually, this reminds me of a funny comment I saw somewhere. There was an interview on The View where they watched the scene where they meet in the flashback. The View people ask KR how old she is in that scene. She says about 19. Then they say, "And you?" to MR. He says, "Um, 36?"
And a few people took that literally and talked about how wow, this changed everything that they had this significant age difference! Not getting that MR was totally joking about his inability to pass for anything close to 19.
Re: How old is Philip?
Also, just realized that both ages we're talking about come from Philip's fake backstory anyway, so there's just as much reason to take the ID of somebody the same age as Mikhail as there is to have Philip's dad die when he was the same age as Mikhail.
Actually, this reminds me of a funny comment I saw somewhere. There was an interview on The View where they watched the scene where they meet in the flashback. The View people ask KR how old she is in that scene. She says about 19. Then they say, "And you?" to MR. He says, "Um, 36?"
And a few people took that literally and talked about how wow, this changed everything that they had this significant age difference! Not getting that MR was totally joking about his inability to pass for anything close to 19.