Old Dudes Mack on Mary-Kate Olsen

Posted by Paige MacGregor (paige@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 21, 2007

Apparently, Mary Kate Olsen makes out with an old dude in her newest movie (a.k.a. the only movie she’s made in how many years? And she’s not even a major character…), a comedy written and directed by Jonathan Levine and appropriately titled The Wackness. As the resident old-dude-loving female Reject writer (so I like Bruce Willis, so what?), it was only too perfect that I comment on this story.

21-year-old MKO and 63-year-old Ben Kingsley filmed the “steamy” love scene in early August. Kingsley, who plays a drug-addled therapist to MKO’s nameless drug addict, dished on the scene in an interview with USA Today:

“There is a very passionate scene in the movie, which we filmed last week,” said Kingsley. “It went extremely well and she was very focused. She was very good, very professional. She was quite wonderful.”

I know for a fact that I am not the only person who thinks that MKO, despite being 21, still looks like she’s 13 years old. So as far as Ben Kingsley goes, can you say pedophile?

I know I’d be super thrilled to have a guy who hasn’t had to pay full price for a movie ticket since before I was born (hooray for senior citizen discounts!) tell the world at large that macking on me was “quite wonderful.”

Kingsley also told USA Today that the make-out session only lasts “for a few seconds and then we disappear and we never see each other again in the movie.”

Of the young actress herself, Kingsley commented that “She is this great free spirit, you know, she is equally seducing so it is a level playing field.”

Whether or not this scene is going to help Mary-Kate’s planned solo acting career—she recently scored a part on the popular television series Weeds—is still up in the air, but I just have two words for everyone: old balls.

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