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I am 35, and none of those people look close to 35. There is a certain look to the youthfulness of the skin on the face that always gives it away. Whatever that subcutaneous fat layer or whatever is that deteriorates and makes things sag or deflate has yet to be fixed in a believable way.

I also assume the films have heavy digital editing to make them look younger.

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35 is an exaggeration but Tom Cruise in the new Top Gun, and Brad Pitt in Bullet Train, look closer to 35 than to 60 or 58.

Cruise taped a "thanks to coming to the theaters" thing that ran before Top Gun when I saw it, and it definitely looked about a decade older. Call it 50, while his character looked 40, and he's actually 60. I found it useful to calibrate my guess around how much was due to makeup and movie magic, and how much due to skincare and surgery.

They look good for their age but it's not shocking they're pushing 60, at best I might accept late 40s. Very much Cruise in Maverick and even thought that about Brad on a recent viewing of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood which he filmed at 54.

He was in ridiculous shape for Top Gun, I could hardly believe it.

I should add my favourite detail about the movie - during and after any pilots perform a manoeuvre, listen to their breathing.

> Cruise taped a "thanks to coming to the theaters" thing that ran before Top Gun when I saw it, and it definitely looked about a decade older.

Yeah I noticed this too. His speech was slower and forced (it seemed like he was having trouble breathing). The skin around his neck was tight in a way that you only see in more elderly folks.

The movie was nothing like this but in that tape it was just completely obvious he was a 60 year old dude. Nothing wrong with that of course you just don't normally see him looking like that and didn't even in the movie itself.

Hey to be fair that movie was filmed some 4 years back.

This is Brad Pitt at 32: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/mediaviewer/rm3781499904...

Both of these guys look very much like youthful middle aged men.

I think there is also something else afoot whether it is health care, skin products, easier living in general, etc... I am often mind blown when I look at pictures of athletes or movie stars from decades ago. They often would look 50-60 years old but then you see they were like 31 when the picture was taken.

The Brimley/Cocoon line twitter account sort of shows this. Wilford Brimley was 50 when Cocoon came out in 1985 - I thought he was easily 70.

https://twitter.com/brimleyline?lang=en

My naïve opinion is that the public is more aware in recent decades of the effects of nutrition, alcohol, smoking, water, sleep and sun.

Some people just age like that. I think a lot of it is genetic. If you bald and go grey at 40, you're more or less going to look like that for the next 30 years.

Uh.... shit. Hopefully that's a look en vogue at some point during that time. Norwood 3 vertex snuck up on me over the last year and my chest hair seems like it got bleached overnight.

If you we worth hundreds of millions, even billions, you'd probably look a lot younger too. And I'm not talking just surgery: better health, less stress, more medical care.

what billionaire has less stress?

Everyone. I'm sure they aren't worried about bills like I am.

I bet it's much more stressful to run giant empires than the typical desk job. And paying the bills isn't that hard - if it is you need to move immediately to a lower cost of living area, you need to save for retirement after all.

People struggling to pay the bills usually don't have the option to "just move to a lower cost of living area", because moving costs money and they also don't have the funds to cover the time it takes to find a new job (presumably paying more relative to the cost of living? how?) in the new location.

Why don't you just take a couple million loan from your parents?

Yes they do. Especially now with the worker shortages, you can get a job anywhere. You can get by in many areas by working at mcdonalds, and people who can't figure this out don't deserve my tax dollars.

On that billionarie has a choice to retire from running the gaint empire.

don't trust they have higher pressure or work hard so everything is ok... they choose it by themselves.

They're also not staying in the sun for long or going to tanning salons. If you stay under the sun, skin will suffer and age more then if you stay out of it.

Some of these actors may have tanned, like Stallone, but many others were careful to not do that.

None of those people look close to 35.

Source: I am 35

I mean, he's not wrong. Can you imagine your job being to digitally de-age people like Tom Cruise all day?

Which indicates I see myself in the mirror all the time, and I likely associate with others around my age, day in and day out, and I look at any of those 60 year old celebs, and they do not look like my cohort.

And then I specified exactly what about their face - which is a lack of a certain “bounce” seen in younger people’s faces.

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