With most actors even when they get really old you can still make out the youthful star (although sometimes it takes a while before the light dawns). I’ve been trying to come up with people that are practically unrecognizable and without a clue you might not be able to say who it is at all.
Mickey Rourke might be an example. I really was shocked a few years ago by his appearance; looking closely I could see the young Mickey there but if I’d come across the photo without knowing who it was I wouldn’t have examined it so carefully and I think I would have totally missed him.
I barely recognized Robert Redford in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”. In fact, my wife and I debated whether it was him or not for a while until one of us pulled up IMDb and confirmed it.
I find some of these examples surprising. Redford, to me, just looks like an older version of his younger self. And Jeremiah Danvers Dean Cain just looks like a puffy version of Superman Dean Cain.
OTOH, Actual Carrie Fisher in The Force Awakens had ventured deeper in the Uncanny Valley for me than digital Carrie Fisher in Rouge One.
A few weeks back on SNL, Pete Davidson had a funny bit during Alec Baldwin’s opening monologue about how compared to his younger self, Baldwin looked like he had been soaking in water for 20 years.
I didn’t see Rogue One, but agree on Fisher. Just couldn’t see any traces of her younger self in her later years. Maybe just a bit in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
My wife and I started watching Very British Problems on Netflix. Two or three times they talked to a guy in a bar who looked and talked like the stereotype boozehound salesman getting wasted after losing his job. About the third time they showed him talking they finally put his name on the screen. It was Rich Hall.:eek:
