The difference is 1 part genetics, 1 part skin care routines, 8 parts a lifetime with or without smoking and being surrounded by people smoking at nearly all times.
Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in 2024. Both age 34 in their respective photos.
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kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You forgot “1 part warlock’s curse”
I mean, the
boyman literally looks 13!It’s like Stephen King’s Thinner, but with visual age rather than weight.
Snapz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“White boy from town, why you no eat you own baby food?”
Cordinel@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Its the angle and lightning. If you look up other pictures of him he looks more like an actual adult. Still way younger looking than Sean of course.
0ops@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I was gonna say, Thomas definitely looks younger here than Sean looks older
cobysev@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sean Connery also wore a toupée ever since he was in his 20s. Dude went bald early and hid it from the world until he was an old man.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wonder if it is also differing beauty standards. Older men used to be considered more sexy. Nowadays a guy over 40 is basically a corpse but if you watch old movies you’ll see guys who look 59 or even 60 in hero roles, and they get the girl, too.
So what I’m saying is, Sean Connery might never be chosen as a leading actor today because he looks too old.
Hanrahan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
LiarAmongAll@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Idk, I’ve been around and been a smoker a large portion of life, I look like I’m a young 25 still despite being 35 (it ain’t me saying, I just got a young face). Some people just look younger for longer.
I don’t feel 25, my body hates what I’ve done to it 😂
federalofph@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thank me later
https://www.urlw.com/tvkmYS
Ariselas@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Sean is always cool, but I wonder how Thomas would look had he been smoking a pack a day for 20 years too.
Eq0@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Is this really it? I thought the non smoking would be compensated by the increased pollution of everything
Ariselas@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m sure sun exposure also plays a role, everyone wears SPF 8000 sunblock now, while they were putting on tanning oil back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
undree@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Air pollution was worse in the last century ourworldindata.org/outdoor-air-pollution
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pollution was worse back then, look up smog in the 70s. We’ve introduced catalytic converters, emissions standards, etc. Most people now question why we need clean air laws because we have clean air, much like people thinking we don’t need vaccines because those diseases aren’t around.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s significantly less air and water pollution now than the past, with the only exception being microplastics. We haven’t found many short-term impacts from that yet, though
boatswain@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Pollution was probably another contributing factor; I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a lot worse in the 60s than it is now: a lot of environmental controls got put in place in the intervening decades. Remember, there was leaded gasoline everywhere, and acid rain scares and the ozone layer depletion in the 80s.
zewm@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a combination of many factors over time. Diet, sun exposure, smoking. Lots of things we have more information about now than we did then. Medicine is better, genetics, etc.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Oh ya, because removing lead from the air made it so much worse. /s
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
It’s funny that culturally 34 was considered a middle aged man back then whereas 34 today feels like an old 20 something.
VeganBtw@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You made my entire week and added spring in my step, I just hope it won’t ruin my knees.
nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What knees? Your bones are gone, dumb vegoon. They evaporated the moment you stopped consuming animals.
-Signed a dog meat lover
TheArtfulLlama@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Nah you’ll just throw your back out instead
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Re: the other comment, isn’t it weird how people just come up to you on the internet, and say, “hey, I’m an asshole, block me!” That’s weird.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The one on the right is also married to Elon Musk’s twice divorce ex-wife. As in the wife married Elon, divorced him, married Elon again, divorced him, then marred the guy on the right.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What did she mar him with, some sort of edged weapon?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
If only!
ATPA9@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Wait, WHO married this cringelord twice??
kantor@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Divorce benefits, dude, think about it
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
He’s determined like his character in Love Actually.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The fuck? I really liked this actor before but now I just feel gross.
bryophile@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The difference would be even more striking of Sean Connery wasn’t wearing a hairpiece
nullspace@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Smoking, alcohol, no sunscreen will still age up a person of today by 10 years.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think also one of them probably had an easier path:
Sean Connery’s father was Joseph Connery, was a factory worker and lorry driver.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster was the actor and performer, Mark Sangster.
federalofph@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thank me later
https://www.urlw.com/tvkmYS
iuseasahibtw@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Thomas is like a genetically engineered femboy for Hollywood billionaires.
No need to go out and molest nubile young boys in the Caribbean, this bad boy is of legal age and doesn’t look a day past 15.
Like a human version of a toy dog, but with a genetically superior busy.
federalofph@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thank me later
https://www.urlw.com/tvkmYS
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Some people used to be born old. That’s just how the world worked. Also, stupid fashion. Have you seen a photo of a woman college student in the 80s? They look 40.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah just drugs/drinking/smoking. He has admitted he started smoking at 9
federalofph@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thank me later
https://www.urlw.com/tvkmYS
MrNesser@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wait is perpetual teen guy going to be a bond?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Well unlike Sir Connery, he at least is English! Though I think Connery impressed Fleming so much that Bond was rewritten to be half-Scottish
But no, there has been no story published on the next Bond having been chosen yet. There are a lot of theories floating around and many of them are fairly unbelievable to the point that it may as well be perpetual teen guy.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Sir Sean
thecryptickler@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Part of it, I’m sure, is that Thomas has babyface. Part of it, too, is that people don’t smoke cigarettes, or drink as much as they used to, or generally live as hard of lives. Living through the 2000s, for example, isn’t really as complicated perhaps, or troubling, as living through the Great Depression and World War II and the Cold War.
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Brodie-Sangster is also like preternaturally youthful looking. 1999 Kyle Chandler in Early Edition at age 34 sort of splits the difference, and Jesse Plemons at 36-38, after he lost some weight, is closing in on Connery levels of character in his face.
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
that’s the second reference to early edition i’ve ever encountered in my life, and the first one was mentioned in passing because the creator of that show also wrote and directed “alien private eye”.
…is that you, vik?
Surp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tinfoil hat: The billionaires are all pedos so they make products to make everyone look like children longer so they have more options. The dude on the right legit looks like a child.
canaryWart@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Before reading the title i was like “wonder what happened to that kid?”. Lo and behold, mf is older than me and, on second glance, I prolly look older than Connery.
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Autism face” is a thing that makes you look way younger than you should. I know I’ve got it. It’s weird being carded at 37.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yesterday three collegues called me “young blood”… I’m 35.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
“Leaded gas vs Unleaded gas” was my initial thought.
DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
And sunscreen, and smoking, and minoxidil, and
The_v@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stress is the largest source of aging. The more severe the stress the faster people age.
The most extreme case I saw was a former coworker. When we worked together we were both in our late 20’s. She then went onto another job and we lost contact.
5 years later I ran into her at a meeting and was shocked. Unfortunately her younger son had died of cancer in the meantime and the stress had aged her 20+ years. She looked in her late 50’s not mid 30’s.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
65 and 12.
restingOface@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Forty Six and 2
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
25 or 6 to 4
canaryWart@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
60 and 7
cruseo@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
12 4 EVA
SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Calm down, Gendo Ikari!
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Here his is in dr no a year later looking more like he’s 40 instead of 55, given he’s in makup, but the crows-feet smile lines aren’t doing him any favors.
and here he is 7 years later in 71 (41 years old) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Connery#/media/File:Se…
TBH, the effect on skin from smoking seem to hit like a truck in the 40’s, that’s gotta be severe tanning, smoking and some really rough genetics.
Colalextrast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He would have been early 30s in Dr No, it was released two years before Goldfinch. Still, though, it’s crazy how much the lifestyles of previous generations differ from current lifestyles and how you can literally read it on people’s faces.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Goldfinch
goooooldddFINCHAAAAA… .the bird with the MIDAS TOUCH! Such a coooold finchaahhh
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
And crazy enough, He grew up in Scottland, That puts you on the less likely end of the scale to grow up with too much sun :)
tigermountain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
These pictures are due to two things; genetics and lighting. Even though dude on right looks younger generally, if he was photographed in the same light as Connery they would look much closer in age.
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
You can see the shadow on the wall behind him. There is a light below his eyeline. That’s called a beauty light, and it hides wrinkles by lighting the areas that would be in shadow from lights above.
But smoking also has a lot to do with it.
federalofph@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thank me later
https://www.urlw.com/tvkmYS
federalofph@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thank me later
https://www.urlw.com/tvkmYS
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
How are even Connery’s earlobes masculine?
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Drun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I’d do it. Face slap
I mean… it’s based? Beating anyone is wrong, of course - but if you have to do it, should you stop just because it’s a woman?
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
These hypotheticals always boil down to ‘I just want to hit women’. It’s not based. You’re just telling on yourself.
agavaa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Right, because advocating hitting women for being hysterical screams gender equality.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Could be worse is a shitty sentiment. Just stop at beating anyone is wrong.
Zensate@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But tell people that millennials look younger than previous generations and people lose their shit.
joeschmoe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Idk man, I’ve always looked way younger than my age when shaved, but not that extreme. Skin care or not, I would not want to look like that at 34.
Snapz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But I always sat in the NON-SMOKING section of the airplane?
federalofph@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thank me later
https://www.urlw.com/tvkmYS
Godric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Neat, not a shitpost.
tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
yeah not even a speck of visible feces like wth‽!
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Was he in the infantry?
DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
its mostly the lighting, the hair style and the amount of make up they throw on thomas before fotographing
TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You won’t believe what he looked like after smoking only one marijuana.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
One is out there doing hard living and the other is using youthful skin creams, prescribed by his publicist.
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workerONE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wow they look like two completely different people
MBech@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Crazy how nature do that.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
But, you can only tell that because one used sunscreen, and one didn’t. Otherwise they’d look exactly identical. /s
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What if James Bond did a pdrn mask every time he was supposed to drink and smoke and every time he was supposed have a villain try to torture him he got HIFU instead?