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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.
He was born in 1930. Not exactly a great time to be an Englishman.
Sean Connery has never had a great time as an Englishman, given he is a Scotsman.
That’s my Geordie mom slipping out. You know how limeys get
Wait, why? The war was over when he was a teen. He enjoyed decades of progressive social reform
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.
Their still do.
That joke completely disregards any good British food and largely ignores Anglo-Indian cuisine.
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.
I feel like I’ve been lied to by Goodnight, Mr Tom. I thought there was a nationwide effort to send kids away. Of the shelter photos ive seen of people sleeping in the Tube, they’re always devoid of kids
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.
The other dude is pretty damn good in The Artful Dodger, by the way. He’s playing close to his actual age (deported to Australia, became a skilled ship’s surgeon but still uneducated) but still looks like we imagine the little cutpurse, it’s a winning combination.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artful_Dodger_(2023_TV_series)
I’m 20-years older and that’s about how my wrinkles are ATM.
This looks like a ventriloquist promo poster
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!
Smoking.
And alcoholism.
And cocaine.
And being outside more by default.
Sunscreen!
Wear. Sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
the penis mightier
I forgot the punchline but your mother’s a whore Trebek
“I’ll take schwards for 100 Alex.”
“I’ll take. The rapists”
“anal bum cover for 400”
I read “bum” as “burn”, too. Even worse.
“I’ll take ‘Le tits now’ for $800”
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.
Those mf start smocking at 12, by 35 they look 50 already.
smoking?
All my homies love wearing a loose dress to age up.
I guess.
My work here is done.
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.
Based on the sample size and the information available, the mean age of UK actors is 34
It doesn’t really work to compare a human with a fae, does it?
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.
Laws can be onerous and no one wants to get crucified for an honest mistake so if some young blood wants to peek under the kimono then I say let em.
I kinda enjoy it when they look back at me and say shit like “man you are way older than you look…” meanwhile my friends curse me for not having a single grey hair. Few things in life going right.
I am still stuck on the fact that the kid from Love Actually is 34. I…I don’t want to process that.
He was 25 when Love Actually was filmed. Probably. I don’t look back.
He has the green sight.
(GoT reference)
Sean looks 56, while Thomas looks 12.
Brodie-Sangster doesn’t look that young in all his pictures but Connery does look about 55, like he never was a young adult, just a kid then immediately a middle aged man.
Roger Moore was actually a few years older than Sean Connery, but when he was cast it looked like they aged down James Bond.
34 and 35
https://starkcenter.org/2020/11/remembering-sean-connery-as-a-bodybuilder-and-athlete/
Holy crap, even when he was 18 and in phenomenal shape he looks like a well maintained 50 year old!
