Actors in their 40’s who still aren’t convincing as mature adults on-screen

Ryan Goaling

Andrew Garfield all day.

Those darn whippersnappers!

I'm under 40!!

DiCaprio. I still see a little boy.

R5 For the win. Thread closed.

Mila Kunis too

Even their voices sound too young. No gravitas!

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.

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.

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.

50’s are the new 40’s. Just ask tubby Matt Damon.

DiCaprio looks like a 20something Russian FAS baby.

I'm writing from the future: Ariana Grande in Wicked will feel like a malnourished 10 year old playing dress up.

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.

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.

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.

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.

r9 I was SHOCKED when I realized Ed Asner was only 41 when MTM premiered. As a kid, he seemed AT LEAST 55-60.

Elisabeth Moss

Michael Douglas and Glenn Close were in their early 40’s when Fatal Attraction came out.

That’s your opinion OP. Not much else.

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.

Taryn Manning

Natalie Portman

Dicaprio looks like he's in his sixties, fat and wore out.

Elijah Wood will always look like he’s trapped at puberty.

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.

Justin Timberlake- if you consider him an actor of any sort

[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.

R29, he displays his middle age when he performs now.

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.

Alexis Bledel

BJ Novak will always looks like that smug kid from The Office.

ScarJo pulled it off in Asteroid City.

If they fail in trite forties, they’re done. Chris Evans needs to ask Armie Hammer for some timeshare job applications.

Jake shouldnt be on this list. Have you not seen The Covenant, Ambulance, Enemy, End of Watch, SouthPaw, Nightcrawler, Prisoners? All convincing adults.

Timothee, who can’t act.

R37, not a mature adult. He’s old enough to have teenage kids. He still acts like one.

R38, Ms. Chalamet would slap you hard for placing him with this group of elders!

Zoe Kazan, but she’s also an overgrown nepo baby devoid of any acting talent.

R39 He convincingly acts like a mature adult in those movies. What he does offscreen I could care less about.

Natalie Portman felt was a convincing adult in May December, but maybe that was in contrast to woman-child Julianne Moore.

Ryan Gosling is Kenough and may earn another Oscar nod.

R5- Him more than ANYONE else

He never became a man. Today he's just an OLD BOY.

What about actors in their 50’’’’’’s?

No one has mentioned the former star, horse trainer, and eternally boyish Matthew Broderick?

Macauley Culkin is 43 years old.

He will always be 21 to me.

[quote] He will always be 21 to me.

Too old.

R48 wins. Thread closed.

R38- He'll always be 11 years old to me.

R47, he now makes elderly Nathan Lane somehow look young and svelte.