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Daily Mirror
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- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Ginny and Georgia fans fume at Netflix as awkward age leap 'ruins' new series
Fan favourite show Ginny and Georgia has returned to Netflix for an all new series which sees more dramatic storylines than ever but not all viewers are happy with the new episodes Ginny and Georgia fans have all said the same thing about brother's age leap in new series. The show has returned to Netflix for its third series, which viewers have waited two years for. Season three picks up just hours on from season two's finale - but not everyone looks the same. Many have pointed out that Ginny's brother Austin has grown up a lot since the last season. Fans have noticed that the actor who plays Austin looks a lot older than nine-years-old which is what he is meant to be in the show. Actor Diesel La Torraca who plays Austin is actually 14-year-old in real life so is five years older than the character he is playing. Many took to social media to point out the ridiculous age gap thanks to the huge break between filming the two series. The show has not aired for two years but has picked up where it left off in season two meaning there should be no age change in the character. Taking to X, one viewer wrote: "I fear ginny and georgia is going to have to recast the little brother because this is deeply unserious." As a second said: " #ginnyandgeorgiaS3 know they wrong for having this 14 year old boy play his 9 year old character. They let too much time pass in between filming and it's p***ing me off." "It's so ridiculous cause austin being so young made georgia's reckless choices hit harder. Now he looks the same age ginny's supposed to be playing and it just doesn't give the same effect," a fan pointed out. As a fourth added: "Netflix should stop taking 2+ years between seasons because wdym these two scenes are supposed to be only a few months apart? #ginnyandgeorgia." Diesel took to his own TikTok page back in May and shared a video of himself which he captioned: "My tryna convince people that Austin is still 9." The Australian-American actor has acted in several roles already despite just being in his teens which include in The Secrets She Keeps, Lambs of God, La Brea and Little Monsters. Actress Antonia Gentry who plays the main character of Ginny commented on how quickly the actor who plays her little brother has grown up. When season 3 filming began in 2024 she shared a side-by-side photo of herself and Diesel after filming season 1 compared with now which showed how much he had grown. He was originally much shorter than the actress and now he towers above her. Ginny and Georgia first arrived on Netflix back in 2021 and quickly became a fan-loves show. It is now in its third series and has got even more dramatic than before. Series two left off with a murder which mum-of-two Georgia is now being accused of, despite it actually being her son who committed the crime.
News.com.au
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Dervla McTiernan on her chart-topping TV win – and why it ‘sucks for me' that she can't stand up to the tech giants' AI piracy
If you haven't yet heard of Dervla McTiernan, you soon will. She wrote Australia's top-selling crime fiction book last year – and was the fourth most-read adult fiction writer behind fellow Aussie literary powerhouses Liane Moriarty and Trent Dalton. Now McTiernan is poised to follow Moriarty and Dalton into screen domination, with her gripping mystery What Happened to Nina? being adapted for TV by the BAFTA-nominated makers of After the Party and The Secrets She Keeps. The story was influenced by recent high-profile murders of women by men with whom they were in relationships. It is more of a 'whydunit' than a whodunit; and Irish-born, Perth-based McTiernan is thrilled that both the story and its discussion of an important, confronting issue has reached so many readers. 'It doesn't often happen that you get to sit five weeks at number one,' she says. As it unfolds, What Happened to Nina? offers insights into the perspectives of the mothers of both the killer and the victim. McTiernan reveals she was driven to write it after swapping parenting stories with a friend. 'We didn't grow up with camera phones everywhere, with all this constant commentary online,' she says. 'She was like: 'What if my son screws up? What if he does something online, or makes an unwelcome move, or sticks up for a friend who makes an off-colour joke and it suddenly escalates?' And I was really taken aback by the conversation because I never really thought about that, because my son is 13 and my daughter's 15. We're not at that stage yet.' It's not the only element of the online world that has become concerning for McTiernan. Like many authors around the world, McTiernan is appalled to have discovered that her books are being replicated in the pirated online library LibGen, where they are used by tech giant Meta to train AI models. 'I am relatively small fry in comparison to some authors who have had 20 or 30 years' worth of work (taken), and then very small fry in comparison to the total, which is around 7.5 million books,' she sighs. 'There's nothing I can do as an individual writer about this. I don't have the resources to sue anybody. 'There are authors in the US who've put together resources (to take action against Meta). 'I hope they are successful. The reality is those cases will take years. They may not be won, because Meta and everybody else who falls into this category has almost endless resources to put against litigation.' A former lawyer, McTiernan believes the only solution is government regulation. 'If you were to say to me, 'Look, the work of these seven million books has been put to this tool, but it's going to only create amazing new drugs and solutions for people, and we all get to share the outcome of that and the financial reward,' to some degree I'd say: 'Okay, well, it sucks for me, but great for everybody.' 'But that's not what's going to happen. A handful of people, contextually speaking, are going to control these tools, the flow of wealth and the gap between rich and poor will widen exponentially over the next 10 to 20 years if nothing is done about this. People are going to lose their jobs.' And writing is a job that McTiernan holds dear. Especially as it has given her a lifeline in the darkest of times. After moving to Perth in 2011 for a fresh start after the Global Financial Crisis left her burnt out and strapped for cash, McTiernan's husband, Kenny, urged her to take another leap of faith into writing. So, while working part-time and juggling two small children, McTiernan began penning The Ruin; a mystery following Irish detective Cormac Reilly. It was also during this time, in a blur of sleep-deprivation and stress, that McTiernan was diagnosed with a potentially fatal brain tumour. She was given the shocking news less than an hour before a literary agent called expressing interest in The Ruin. After undergoing surgery and a gruelling recovery process, McTiernan distracted herself from the ordeal by focusing on getting her first story out into the world. ' The Ruin made it into Top 10, and then The Scholar made it into Top Five, and then The Good Turn went to Number One. And they've all been number one since then, and the readership just keeps growing. 'And I just feel incredibly lucky as this Irish woman in Western Australia that you guys let into the country and let me keep writing books.' That's why it feels especially meaningful for McTiernan to return to writing about the detective who launched her career and saw her through brain cancer – and who has become a firm fan favourite. Her new book, The Unquiet Grave, comes five years after the last in the Reilly series and after she felt she'd said goodbye to the dogged policeman. She hopes that being reunited with Cormac will be as rewarding for readers as it has been for her. 'Because that's what I feel when I pick up a book by one of my favourite writers that I've been waiting to read, and it's set in a place that I know with characters I love,' she says. 'I'm on the couch, the blanket over my legs, a cup of tea beside me, and it's just so comforting to get three or four hours in a place I want to be with characters I love.'
