Kate Winslet and Liam Hemsworth Are the Perfect Antidote to Hollywood's Old-Man-Young-Girlfriend Problem

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published 14 July 2015

In a satisfying, ab-tastic reversal of the Maggie Gyllenhaal Conundrum, Liam Hemsworth, 25, has been cast opposite 39-year-old Kate Winslet in The Dressmaker, which is damn refreshing and should catapult Kate's love-interest age graph into a class of its own.

Playing Australian couturier Tilly Dunnage, Winslet returns home to care for her mother, scandalizing the townspeople who think she's a murderer (that's why she left, see?) and crafting life-changing gowns for mousy spinsters in the process. She also tries making a suit or something for shirtless, rugby-toned Liam Hemsworth, but they just end up making out and it isn't weird even though they're 15 years apart.

More please. Watch the trailer below.

Chelsea Peng is a writer and editor who was formerly the assistant editor at MarieClaire.com. She's also worked for The Strategist and Refinery29, and is a graduate of Northwestern University. On her tombstone, she would like a GIF of herself that's better than the one that already exists on the Internet and a free fro-yo machine. Besides frozen dairy products, she's into pirates, carbs, Balzac, and snacking so hard she has to go lie down.