Recently watched The Seven Year Itch (1955) and the man claims to be 37. He looks like a young 50. Cigarettes.
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Just watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Nicholson was 38 during filming. I thought he looked 50 too.
Nah he looks 38 lol
No, he definitely looks well into 45+
I’m just a few months behind that… no he does not.
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Recently did a watch of Rear Window (1954), and yeah, there's a scene in the beginning where the main character's nurse calls the main character "young man". Main character (Jimmy Stewart?) was 46 at the film's release.
Wild.
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When I was a kid, restaurants still smelled like tobacco.
Didn't really stop until early 2000's
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yes the thing that changed was lead posioning from gas and chain smoking cigs starting at 12
Also pesticides were even more unregulated than they are now. Remember how they just sprayed DDT everywhere in the 40's till the 70's. Even on directly on people. Shit had multigenerational consequences, even grandchildren of people who had a high exposure to that stuff are being affected.
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The one in the left married at 23 and his 4 kids.*fix his=has
That explains a lot, what with the sleep deprivation and drastic lifestyle changes brought on my most kids.
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In addition to people not smoking anymore, direct Sun exposure has dropped dramatically too.
Great example of how stress ages you
Not stress, smoking, drinking and no sunscreen does that to you.
I don’t think stress is any less, but actually more than in the 90’s
Few people are as consistently stressed as Tony Soprano. Sure, he's got the big house, the big car, the ridiculously understanding wife, but he also has had to kill a few family members and more friends than is usually healthy. Once, he got a good friend indebted to him then burnt down his restaurant. All this while trying to keep two steps ahead of the feds. That lifestyle would age anyone.
None of that was real though lol.
To be fair, I don't know much about James Gandilfini.
Jim Gandalfini? Yeah I knew him. I knew him when he was a young, unshaven actor, before he fell, and spent forty years battling the foul Morgul stench. He emerged from that an aged man, his stubbled chin showing hints of grey, body and mind exhausted in spite of a great victory over the dark side. He took to wearing nothing but bathrobes, and rested heavily on his staff when he had to walk. His recovery was heavily reliant on resting his mind with the weed leaf, and rejuvenating his mind amongst the gardens and feasts of middle America, off the beaten track, as aeons passed him by. Soon, the great evil mustered its strength once more, and he again took to the battlegrounds of the Midwest, or as it was then known, middle earth...
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Yep, It's not only cigarettes, but air pollution too.
I've heard it attributed to drinking more water.
I'm 40 and I look like the second picture
pfff... they both look like high schoolers from the 1950's.
There was a real missed opportunity to have a picture of Jason Alexander (who was in his 30's during most of Seinfeld's production) instead of James Gandolfini.
Still true tho
My wife and I were watching an episode of Frasier and he states that he’s 38 years old at one point. We were both like YEAH FUCKIN RIGHT. I’m 45 and look closer to the person on the right, but I also don’t give a shit about “dress your age” nonsense. I’m not going to willingly age myself up.
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Wasn't Tony in his 40's?
Please say Tony was in his 40's!!!
Tony was 41 per the pilot script but the actor was 38.
AJ is now 41 in 2026.
George Costanza was in his 30s throughout the run of seinfeld
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We quirked too close to the chungus.
From what I've heard it's largely from less smoking and more sunscreen
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true. i saw some people who were 80 and looked like 250. like walking corpses. incredible. probably waaay too many sunburns, etc.
Guy on left can afford nice shirt.
less people smoke and drink. drug use also peaked in the 90s, and has been steadily declining since.
This is the best news I've gotten all week. I look like a less balding 90s 30. That's great for being 45.
Does anyone else tell themselves all the other dads they meet are actually much younger than you?
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