Actors in their 40’s who still aren’t convincing as mature adults on-screen
Natalie Portman
Ryan Gosling
Jake Gyllenhaal
Eddie Redmayne
Chris Evans
Kate Hudson
Ashton Kutcher
Is it a curse or blessing to their careers that they appear to stuck in time? There hasn’t been much evolution in the type of roles they play. For reference, when Terms of Endearment filmed, both Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson were in their 40’s. Could you imagine anyone above taking on mature roles like that? Caroll O’Connor became Archie Bunker at age 47.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | November 21, 2023 11:59 PM
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Those darn whippersnappers!
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 16, 2023 8:59 PM
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DiCaprio. I still see a little boy.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 16, 2023 9:23 PM
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R5 For the win. Thread closed.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 16, 2023 9:54 PM
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Even their voices sound too young. No gravitas!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 17, 2023 5:51 AM
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Today's forty-year olds are a lot more youthful in appearance and behavior. Shirley Maclaine and Jack Nicholson look like they were in their fifties/pushing sixty in Terms of Endearment. I had to look them up to see if they were in their forties then. I'm in my thirties and constantly get told I look younger.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 17, 2023 6:09 AM
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As a society, we embrace youth more today than ever before. That’s reflected with how these people style themselves and act. It’s sad and stale.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 17, 2023 2:02 PM
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OP Jake Gylleenhaal does not belong to this list as well as many others but they aren’t great actors so I don’t care.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 17, 2023 2:05 PM
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50’s are the new 40’s. Just ask tubby Matt Damon.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 17, 2023 2:34 PM
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DiCaprio looks like a 20something Russian FAS baby.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 17, 2023 2:36 PM
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I'm writing from the future: Ariana Grande in Wicked will feel like a malnourished 10 year old playing dress up.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 17, 2023 2:40 PM
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The youth fetish is disturbing to me. The Golden Girls were women in their mid-late 50s and now our 50 something celebrity women look like botox Kidman.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 17, 2023 2:41 PM
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DiCaprio is real life looks and acts like a privileged fat adolescent boy, but he’s become convincing on-screen as a middle aged man. Watch Don’t Look Up.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 17, 2023 2:41 PM
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r14 Oops... I just saw the age specification. She's not in her 40's, but she will never be a convincing adult as she appears to be shrinking.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 17, 2023 2:41 PM
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DiCaprio is not a good actor but I will say he looks and seems like his age. Same with Kate Winslet, who is a good actress and has allowed herself to not get anything more than tasteful work done. In general, the Brits have less of an issue with this. As do the French.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 17, 2023 2:43 PM
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r9 I was SHOCKED when I realized Ed Asner was only 41 when MTM premiered. As a kid, he seemed AT LEAST 55-60.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 17, 2023 2:45 PM
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Michael Douglas and Glenn Close were in their early 40’s when Fatal Attraction came out.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 17, 2023 2:49 PM
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That’s your opinion OP. Not much else.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 17, 2023 3:46 PM
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Botox, fillers and more affordable plastic surgery have really changed the perception of aging. Standards for dressing oneself have also changed. You look at photos of teenagers from the 1960s or even 1970s, and they all look like they're pushing 50.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 17, 2023 4:30 PM
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Dicaprio looks like he's in his sixties, fat and wore out.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 17, 2023 4:54 PM
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Elijah Wood will always look like he’s trapped at puberty.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 17, 2023 5:19 PM
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It killed Topher Grace’s career. At age 45, he’s only convincing as an immature young adult.
Neil Patrick Harris is another one, even with the deep wrinkles across his face.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 17, 2023 5:29 PM
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Justin Timberlake- if you consider him an actor of any sort
by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 17, 2023 5:29 PM
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[quote]Elijah Wood will always look like he’s trapped at puberty.
I've always wanted Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe to do a movie together.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 17, 2023 5:29 PM
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R29, he displays his middle age when he performs now.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 31 | November 17, 2023 5:32 PM
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Apparently, the extra 30 pounds he's carrying inhibits dance movement.
I guess something similar to the old adage about each extra pound is an inch of height in tumbling runs applies to old white men dancing.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 17, 2023 8:40 PM
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BJ Novak will always looks like that smug kid from The Office.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 17, 2023 9:40 PM
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ScarJo pulled it off in Asteroid City.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | November 17, 2023 9:59 PM
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If they fail in trite forties, they’re done. Chris Evans needs to ask Armie Hammer for some timeshare job applications.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | November 18, 2023 7:17 PM
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Jake shouldnt be on this list. Have you not seen The Covenant, Ambulance, Enemy, End of Watch, SouthPaw, Nightcrawler, Prisoners? All convincing adults.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | November 21, 2023 11:09 AM
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R37, not a mature adult. He’s old enough to have teenage kids. He still acts like one.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | November 21, 2023 12:57 PM
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R38, Ms. Chalamet would slap you hard for placing him with this group of elders!
by Anonymous | reply 40 | November 21, 2023 1:11 PM
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Zoe Kazan, but she’s also an overgrown nepo baby devoid of any acting talent.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | November 21, 2023 1:39 PM
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R39 He convincingly acts like a mature adult in those movies. What he does offscreen I could care less about.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | November 21, 2023 2:01 PM
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Natalie Portman felt was a convincing adult in May December, but maybe that was in contrast to woman-child Julianne Moore.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | November 21, 2023 2:11 PM
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Ryan Gosling is Kenough and may earn another Oscar nod.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | November 21, 2023 2:17 PM
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R5- Him more than ANYONE else
He never became a man. Today he's just an OLD BOY.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | November 21, 2023 2:21 PM
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What about actors in their 50’’’’’’s?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | November 21, 2023 2:34 PM
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No one has mentioned the former star, horse trainer, and eternally boyish Matthew Broderick?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | November 21, 2023 2:41 PM
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Macauley Culkin is 43 years old.
He will always be 21 to me.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | November 21, 2023 2:43 PM
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[quote] He will always be 21 to me.
Too old.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | November 21, 2023 3:25 PM
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R38- He'll always be 11 years old to me.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | November 21, 2023 9:01 PM
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R47, he now makes elderly Nathan Lane somehow look young and svelte.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 52 | November 21, 2023 11:59 PM
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