Fred Savage is having a hard time showing his childhood favourite films to his kids.
The actor was on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on Monday and talked about the fact that a lot of beloved movies from the ’80s just don’t hold up anymore.
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“The kids like ‘The Princess Bride’. But we do try to show them movies that we loved as kids,” the 43-year-old said. “And they’re very problematic now in this age of trying to raise very kind of socially aware, morally responsible kids. And you try to show them these movies and we’ll be like, ‘Kids, we’re gonna show you a movie!’ and they’ll be like, ‘Oh, great, what misogynistic, racist movie are you gonna show us today?’ And I’m like ‘What are you talking about?!’ And we look at the movies and I’m like, ‘Oh, these are problems.’”
As an example, Savage pointed to the 1984 classic “Splash”, starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah as a mermaid who grows legs.
As Savage says, the movie features “a lot of nudging about this guy taking a girl that can’t walk or talk up to his apartment.”
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Then there’s the other Hanks classic “Big”, in which part of the plot involves an adult woman having sex with a young boy in the body of an adult man.
“And then you defend it and say horrible things!” Savage said, “You say like, ‘But he was dressed like an adult! He was acting like an adult! How was she to know? He was dressed wrong!’”
He added, “Guys, it’s rough out there. Watch ‘em again with a new lens and it all falls apart.”
