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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 59997" data-attributes="member: 27">I&#039;ll have to think a bit deeper on this (indeed, so many people to hate on!) but off the top of my head:Susan Lucci was dead-set against her All My Children character, Erica Kane, being depicted as...well, her correct age.&nbsp; She fought a ret-conned daughter (Kendall) being written in because mentioning the girl&#039;s age meant viewers would be able to &#039;do the math&#039; and make Erica look about seven years older than what she played.&nbsp; The mutual dislike between Lucci and the actress who played her long-lost daughter (Buffy&#039;s Sarah Michelle Gellar) was palpable.&nbsp; Even when they later &quot;de-aged&quot; Kendall, hoping to make Lucci happier, the bad blood remained.&nbsp; Even more humorous over time was when Erica&#039;s other, younger daughter Bianca had a baby.&nbsp; No script ever referred to Erica as having a &quot;grandchild&quot;, she was never called &quot;grandma&quot; or any derivative of that term, and characters actually had to say awkward things like &quot;Erica&#039;s daughter&#039;s daughter&quot; on several occasions to get around it.&nbsp; Kendall also had a child eventually, but I&#039;m not sure if the &quot;Grandma Embargo&quot; had been lifted by that point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 59997, member: 27"] I'll have to think a bit deeper on this (indeed, so many people to hate on!) but off the top of my head: Susan Lucci was dead-set against her [I]All My Children[/I] character, Erica Kane, being depicted as...well, her correct age. She fought a ret-conned daughter (Kendall) being written in because mentioning the girl's age meant viewers would be able to 'do the math' and make Erica look about seven years older than what she played. The mutual dislike between Lucci and the actress who played her long-lost daughter (Buffy's Sarah Michelle Gellar) was palpable. Even when they later "de-aged" Kendall, hoping to make Lucci happier, the bad blood remained. Even more humorous over time was when Erica's other, younger daughter Bianca had a baby. No script ever referred to Erica as having a "grandchild", she was never called "grandma" or any derivative of that term, and characters actually had to say awkward things like "Erica's daughter's daughter" on several occasions to get around it. Kendall also had a child eventually, but I'm not sure if the "Grandma Embargo" had been lifted by that point. [/QUOTE]

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