The Teens of Here's how old the Pogues really are... Aug 3, 2021 It’s common for Hollywood to hire twenty-something actors to play young teenagers. 28-year-old Darren Barnet playing Paxton Hall-Yoshida in Never Have I Ever. 30-year-old Ross Butler as teenaged Zach in 13 Reasons Why. The list goes on. So, it’s not a big surprise that Netflix’s This Netflix drama follows an idyllic North California island town where two groups of people reside—the haves and the haves not, officially known as the Kooks and the Pogues. Of course, the show’s band set of characters are Pogues: JJ, Kie, Sarah, John B, Pope, and our new resident, Cleo. For a show that focuses on teenaged life—angst, romance, and friendships with a bit of murder sprinkling in—the actors playing these characters sure don’t look like teenagers (nor do they act like them either). Honestly, if you weren't following the plot of this YA show, it wouldn’t be too far off if you’d assumed the cast was a group of college kids.