The aging of actors:imagined vs. reality
09-23-09, 04:59 PM
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The aging of actors:imagined vs. reality
So I'm watching an old Mission: Impossible last night. William Shatner was made up to look old. The make-up was completely different from that of the Star Trek where everyone is growing old. In both cases, although completely different, and believable approximations, were nowhere close to how Shatner actually aged. Got me thinking, has an actor ever been made up to look decades older and then decades later turned out to look just like he was made up?
The only one I could think of that comes close is Dick Van Dyke as the old head of the bank in Mary Poppins. And only because he grew a a similiar moustache which distracts from other differences.
The only one I could think of that comes close is Dick Van Dyke as the old head of the bank in Mary Poppins. And only because he grew a a similiar moustache which distracts from other differences.
09-23-09, 05:08 PM
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Re: The aging of actors:imagined vs. reality
Funny you should ask--I was just rewatching Back to the Future a few nights ago and kept thinking that Crispin Glover as the 1985 version of George McFly (i.e. "aged" 25 years) looks pretty much exactly like Crispin Glover circa 2009. Granted, he was 21 at the time and was only "bumped" to mid-40s, but still...
09-23-09, 05:10 PM
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Re: The aging of actors:imagined vs. reality
Max Von Sydow in The Exorcist. He ended up looking just like that! Even earlier in Bergman movies they would "age" him, and that was pretty accurate. He's a weird actor, virtually all his most famous roles are ones where he played someone not his age. So you'll see a movie from the 50's, 70's, and 00's and he looks the same.
09-23-09, 06:09 PM
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Orson Welles' makeup in Citizen Kane looked a lot like Orson Welles in his later years. Had they given Charles Foster Kane a beard he'd look identical.
09-23-09, 08:59 PM
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09-23-09, 09:12 PM
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09-23-09, 11:47 PM
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(As far as the Actors-who-don't-age discussion goes)
Fred Williamson is also now in his 70's and hasn't changed a bit since From Dusk til Dawn.
09-24-09, 10:37 AM
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Debbie Reynolds in HOW THE WEST WAS WON (1962). I don't have pictures to illustrate it, but my memory of her at the end of that movie and the last time I saw her in anything (HEAVEN AND EARTH by Oliver Stone, in 1993) seem to merge smoothly.
09-24-09, 05:44 PM
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Re: The aging of actors:imagined vs. reality
So I'm watching an old Mission: Impossible last night. William Shatner was made up to look old. The make-up was completely different from that of the Star Trek where everyone is growing old. In both cases, although completely different, and believable approximations, were nowhere close to how Shatner actually aged. Got me thinking, has an actor ever been made up to look decades older and then decades later turned out to look just like he was made up?
The only one I could think of that comes close is Dick Van Dyke as the old head of the bank in Mary Poppins. And only because he grew a a similiar moustache which distracts from other differences.
The only one I could think of that comes close is Dick Van Dyke as the old head of the bank in Mary Poppins. And only because he grew a a similiar moustache which distracts from other differences.
on the Michael Jackson pictures.
09-25-09, 08:02 AM
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A fantasy piece about how the president in the year 2000 would be Jesse Jackson and his vice president would be flip-talking Eddie Murphy. Ebony readers knew that no black man was going to be elected president.
09-25-09, 03:12 PM
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Re: The aging of actors:imagined vs. reality
I went lookin in that magazine for the "future cars" story and say an ad with Grace Jones in it...ugh.
There was also some fashion stuff in there that reminded me that 80's fashion was really, really bad.