Every so often there’s a few days of arguments after someone shares that they really don’t like the idea of Vision and Scarlet Witch being in a relationship because of the age difference between the actors.
For the most part, when actor age differences becomes a point of contention, it’s about a specific issue: actors being much older than the actress who plays the love interest. This isn’t an unfair or misplaced observation: Hollywood gives their female stars a much shorter shelf life than their male stars. It is not uncommon to see a 40+ year old man play a romance with a young-20s woman. It is uncommon to see the reverse, or even like-aged actors when the male star is over 35.
This argument is a fair one, and I don’t think should be dismissed out of hand. My perspective, however, is through a pretty unique circumstance of casting, it’s not very applicable to this situation.
Paul Bettany was cast because he was the voice of JARVIS. Of course, had he looked like the Edwin Jarvis of the comics that wouldn’t have happened–but as it is, Bettany was cast through atypical means that also meant his personal age irrelevant. Almost all MCU couples are relatively like aged besides.
There’s also people who feel uncomfortable with the age difference in they feel the same way about age differences with real couples as with actors or their characters. A fair perspective, but on this front, Vision himself doesn’t really have a quantifiable age (he’s either 2 or older than the universe depending on the perspective), and the actors are, of course, acting.
Those Celestial Bodies 