I mean, to be fair, I’m 10 years older than Connery in that picture, and he still looks older than me. Dude was born old.
Sean Connery has never had a great time as an Englishman, given he is a Scotsman.
Wait, why? The war was over when he was a teen. He enjoyed decades of progressive social reform
Britain still felt the effects of rationing for years and years after the end of WWII
Between bombings, rationing, and the general pollution of the UK, it’s a wonder he lived as long as he did.
And the other dude has a baby face, but looking closely I can see that he’s older.
Half the difference here is the fact that modern actors have a better skincare routine. Connery probably smoked, too.
The other dude is pretty damn good in The Artful Dodger, by the way. He’s playing close to his actual age (deported to Australia, became a skilled ship’s surgeon but still uneducated) but still looks like we imagine the little cutpurse, it’s a winning combination.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artful_Dodger_(2023_TV_series)
People do seem to have aged more rapidly until a few decades ago. Perhaps all the cigarette smoke weathered them.
Vsauce did a video on this. it’s cultural context. eg wearing clothes that old people wear makes you look older. a dude in like 1920 was wearing a tshirt and aviators and ppl thought he was a time traveler
It’s very dependent on style also:
Sean Connery and Patrick Stewart looked like they were 55 between the ages of 25 and 85. Conversely, Paul Rudd and Joseph Gordon-Levitt looked like they were 15 between the ages of 15 and 40.
Aging is weird.
It was interesting when I realized that Patrick Stewart was my age in the first season of Next Generation.
Jesus Christ don’t say that … you just made me look it up and realize how true this statement was for myself as well … what have I done with my life?
Smoking.
the penis mightier
