Hi. I hope you don't mind my asking a question. I am re-watching season 3, and I'm on 'Tallahassee' right now. Emma is supposed to be 18 when she gets pregnant with Henry, right? But, how old is Neal supposed to be? Do we have any idea? Because I'm just watching them and thinking wow he looks really old. And that just might be the actor (just like they're using JMo), but it made me curious if he's supposed to be much older. Thanks!
I think that’s been a subject of some debate for a while, actually. I think Emma was 18 when she gave birth, so she was either 17 or 18 when she got pregnant. According to his wanted poster, Neal was born in ‘77 so he would have been 24 when he met Emma.
Both Neal and Emma look older than their supposed ages in the flashbacks. The actress who plays young!Emma now, Abby Ross, is actually about the right age now, so if you want to picture Emma at age 18 then she’d be more realistic in terms of looks. And Neal would look a lot younger as well. I’d look at Dylan O’Brien for a more realistic idea of what he’d have looked like, I think Dylan is about the right age now.
That’s as far as I know. I’m gonna publish this so that others can weigh in if there’s something I missed or if I’m wrong, which is entirely possible!
I’m pretty sure Emma was younger than 18 when she got pregnant with Henry. I’ve actually tried to figure it out but the only time Emma’s age is mentioned is in the pilot. But if she’s turning 28 when Henry is already 10, then she had to give birth to him when she was 17. (Also, going by the idea that only a year and a half or so has passed since the start of the show, and Henry is now 12, his birthday must be within the 6 months after her birthday and so she must have gotten pregnant when she was 16 or barely 17)
She says she was 18 when she was pregnant in 1x04, to Ashley, but it doesn’t work at all for her to have been pregnant then, and I’d rather go off the fact that she turns 28 in the pilot (when Henry is already 10) because the fact that Henry shows up on her birthday is very important, plot-wise. Besides, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to consider that she might have lied slightly about her age to Ashley.
(I was working it out a month ago: here)
We don't know what age Neal actually is and because of all the time he spent in Neverland he is probably the same age as Hook/ Killian



















