People do seem to have aged more rapidly until a few decades ago. Perhaps all the cigarette smoke weathered them.
Also probably time spent in the sun.
And the whiskey!
Vsauce did a video on this. it’s cultural context. eg wearing clothes that old people wear makes you look older. a dude in like 1920 was wearing a tshirt and aviators and ppl thought he was a time traveler
Are the winkled forehead, crows feet around the eyes, and full-on retreating hairline part of his clothes?
I mean, to be fair, I’m 10 years older than Connery in that picture, and he still looks older than me. Dude was born old.
I’m 20-years older and that’s about how my wrinkles are ATM.
And the other dude has a baby face, but looking closely I can see that he’s older.
Half the difference here is the fact that modern actors have a better skincare routine. Connery probably smoked, too.
He was born in 1930. Not exactly a great time to be an Englishman.
Wait, why? The war was over when he was a teen. He enjoyed decades of progressive social reform
Between bombings, rationing, and the general pollution of the UK, it’s a wonder he lived as long as he did.
Rationing really wasn’t that bad, they had ample bread, beer, and honey. Yes some other things weren’t available, but people weren’t wasting away in the streets, they’d just use egg powder instead of eggs.
The bombings of major cities were bad, but as a kid he was likely carted off to the countryside, and as a Scottish kid living on the outskirts of Edinburgh, unless he lived in Peterhead or Aberdeen during the Blitz, but as a kid who lived around Edinburgh, he was probably fine.
As for general pollution, I think you’re either mixing up Victorian-era UK, or current UK’s toxic dumping scandal. The points in between there were pretty bad if you lived in London, sure. Anywhere else though…? UK’s got lots of countryside.
My grandpa was his age growing up in Newcastle and he had his school bombed and went into a bomb shelter in the back garden once a week. Only the rich kids were sent out to the country side.
Britain still felt the effects of rationing for years and years after the end of WWII
UK also swallowed a whole 1/4 of the Marshall Plan funds to rebuild Europe.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1227834/distribution-marshall-plan-by-country/
They were fine.
Sean Connery and Patrick Stewart looked like they were 55 between the ages of 25 and 85. Conversely, Paul Rudd and Joseph Gordon-Levitt looked like they were 15 between the ages of 15 and 40.
Aging is weird.
It was interesting when I realized that Patrick Stewart was my age in the first season of Next Generation.
Jesus Christ don’t say that … you just made me look it up and realize how true this statement was for myself as well … what have I done with my life?
What, you’re not the captain of a starship yet? Loser!
I’m a character stuck inside a transporter buffer that will never materialize … I exist but will never appear :(
I’m just a few short years away, myself. Woof, hadn’t realized that.
Woof, hadn’t realized that.
What are you talking about, Lwaxana? He’s not even here!
It doesn’t really work to compare a human with a fae, does it?
When “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” was shot, Harrison Ford was 47. Sean Connery was 59 and played the father of Ford’s character.
Let’s not body shame 12 year old dad’s now.
Smoking.
And alcoholism.
And cocaine.
And being outside more by default.
Arch Linux. Not even once.
The Connery photo is natural lighting and properly exposed for his skin tone. The newer photo is artificially lit, much brighter for the skin tone and could have been retouched to blur the skin some. The photo on the right may have also had makeup on, vs on the left not likely.
All true, but, that’s a fucking very aged looking 34 regardless.
That KID is 34?!?!
I’m 34 and people think I’m 20 🤷🏼♂️ As this post shows, aging is fuckin’ weird.
I tell people it’s all the preservatives in Taco Bell that keep me lookin’ young lmfao
It’s a compliment to get carded at a bar…
For a while, it is. Eventually it gets problematic. I shouldn’t get carded by someone younger than me.
Me, a classical student of principia statisticalia and an avid disciple of reasoning: ‘hmm, yes the UK has at least 2 (two) actors, one could infer’
What else are we supposed to get from this? I might be little tired.
Left could pass as 50, right could pass as 13 yet they are both 34
I think what they mean is the picture is implying it’s due to generational changes when you could find a younger looking 34 year old then and an older looking 34 year old now. It’s a sample size of one. By definition that’s argument from anecdote, there’s no way you can infer generalities from that without being hasty.
Shit, do you think it’s too late for OP to retract their scientific paper submission?
Based on the sample size and the information available, the mean age of UK actors is 34
Those mf start smocking at 12, by 35 they look 50 already.
smoking?
All my homies love wearing a loose dress to age up.
Are you s’mocking me?!?
