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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 144 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 51 points 3 days ago (10 children)

He was born in 1930. Not exactly a great time to be an Englishman.

[–] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 70 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sean Connery has never had a great time as an Englishman, given he is a Scotsman.

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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 120 points 3 days ago (3 children)

People do seem to have aged more rapidly until a few decades ago. Perhaps all the cigarette smoke weathered them.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 88 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also probably time spent in the sun.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 37 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't forget the leaded paint and asbestos.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago

Don't worry ... the layers of lead paint protected them from the asbestos underneath

[–] subterfuge@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Are the winkled forehead, crows feet around the eyes, and full-on retreating hairline part of his clothes?

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 96 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 34 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It was interesting when I realized that Patrick Stewart was my age in the first season of Next Generation.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

What, you're not the captain of a starship yet? Loser!

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm a character stuck inside a transporter buffer that will never materialize .... I exist but will never appear :(

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And alcoholism.

And cocaine.

And being outside more by default.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 40 points 3 days ago

Arch Linux. Not even once.

[–] archaicpixels@sh.itjust.works 48 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] coaxil@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

All true, but, that's a fucking very aged looking 34 regardless.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 60 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I forgot the punchline but your mother's a whore Trebek

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"I'll take schwards for 100 Alex."

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago

“I’ll take ‘Le tits now’ for $800”

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[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Let's not body shame 12 year old dad's now.

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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Left could pass as 50, right could pass as 13 yet they are both 34

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Those mf start smocking at 12, by 35 they look 50 already.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] deeferg@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

All my homies love wearing a loose dress to age up.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 14 points 3 days ago

Are you s'mocking me?!?

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[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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It doesn't really work to compare a human with a fae, does it?

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 20 points 3 days ago

No need to call out Sean Connery for his early-onset twink death.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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!

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