Olivia Cooke Questions Hollywoods Age Bias for Women

star Olivia Cooke has addressed the 'odd' one-year age gap with Tom Glynn-Carney who plays her son in the series. 

Despite the two playing mother and son, there is only actually a one year age gap between them as Olivia is 32 and Tom 31. 

Addressing their closeness in age, Olivia noted it was 'odd' as she asked: 'does Hollywood just not want to see women age?' 

Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast with Joshua Horowitz she said: 'When I found out that Tom Glynn-Carney was auditioning for my son, I was like, "Oh, I was like, are they gonna like recast Alicent again and like, like do another age jump? How's this gonna work?'

Josh asked: 'Where are you at with it now? They're wonderful actors.

'I love them with all my heart. I think spiritually, me and Tom are related. It's odd, isn't it? 

'I feel many things about it. I feel like God, is this just like the industry? Is it just Hollywood? They don't want to see women age, you know?

'I think it's a big leap for the audience to make, or maybe I'm just a fantastic actor. Let's go with that.'

It comes after Olivia's other on-screen son Ewan Mitchell spoke out on his shocking scene in the opening episode of the new series.

The highly-anticipated series three premiere saw Ewan's character Aemond kiss his mother Alicent on the lips during a tense conversation.

Speaking to People, Ewan described the moment as one which 'kind of makes you want to throw up in your mouth a little bit', and added: 'Yeah, it's kind of shocking.

'It's quite a difficult pill to swallow, isn't it? Kissing your mom on the lips, especially in that way. I think what you see in that scene in episode 1 is that skewed love.

'I mean, Aemond, growing up, he never felt like he was loved enough by his mom and his family around him, and a kid needs that unconditional love to develop a balanced view of themselves.

'And Aemond, because he never had that, he's got a very skewed perception and a very strange way of showing love.'