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    Was watching an old episode of The Twilight Zone, main character was supposed to be 25, I swear he looked 40+ easily.

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        I wonder if Dawson Casting is quite right though. I’m thinking here of an actor playing a man in his mid 20s, but looking much older. Whether he was or not, I’m not sure, but flipping through Wikipedia’s transcripts of the opening narrations of the first season episodes, I see:

        E21 has Vera Miles playing a 25 year old when she’s 30.

        E31 has George Grizzard playing someone in his “youthful 20s” when he’s about 32 and looks it.

        Seems similar, but also different: older actors playing younger people.

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      The first season of The Sopranos, James Gandolfini was only 36 or 37 when they were filming it. He looked 50 easily

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      They wore clothes that looks 40+ years old since they were from a different time.

      The actors aren’t.

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    I am confused? I see plenty of 45 year olds that look like this. Just like how I see 18 year olds that look like they are 30 year old dudes, and also 18 year olds that look like they haven’t even reached 13.

    How old do Rhett and Link look? They are about this age. Link is pretty grey.

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    I see two rather young looking faces framed by grey or white hair (I’m a big fan of natural greying) and with terrible outfits that make them look much older. So to me it seems that finally we have a better fashion.

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    Slightly on topic, but yesterday I discovered that I’m the same age as Rishi Sunak, and it’s fucking with my brain that I’m the same age as the Prime Minister. Something about that just ain’t right.

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      I think it just something about public figures and that they can’t possibly live a life like us or something.

      I have the same thing, but opposite direction with the stranger things cast. Still can’t belive they’re the same age or older than me.

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        I think it also ties in with the “olders and betters” mentality that we’re brought up with. There’s a sense of gravitas to the office of Prime Minister, and even if they’re doing stupid shit there’s a monkey bit of my brain that’s like “ah, but they’re old enough to know better than me”. But now the PM is only four months older than I am, and my mum worked for his dad for a few years, so we could have (theoretically) turned in the same circles*, and he’s up there in the highest office in the land, doing stupid shit and I’m looking at him and wondering who let this idiot kid be in charge.


        *We really couldn’t have though, he went to a very fancy school and was already married to a billionaire by the time my mum started working for his dad. His dad’s actually sound.

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      Idk… I feel like that’s okaish…you don’t want to end up on Biden/Trump age for a leader.

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        Older age isn’t necessarily a negative factor in leadership, but I know what you’re saying. However, I can’t deal with the fact that I’m 43 and don’t feel like a grown up, so does that mean our Prime Minister feels the same way about himself? I can’t square that circle, y’know?

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          I don’t know about Sunak specifically, but generally the types of people who succeed at politics have way too much unjustified self-confidence to introspect that much.

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      Rob Ford was in his thirties when he was mayor of Toronto but if you look at pictures of him you’d never believe it.

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    The guy in the photo was raised by black sharecroppers, a target of an assassination, a multimillionaire inventor/carnival worker, and lost it all only to finally find his rhythm after being homeless and destitute.

    You’d be gray haired too.

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    Change their clothes and hair style and this is exactly how 45 years old look like… Steve Martin has a baby face, even with gray hair.