I think it was wrestling.
Oh my god, people got older. They got wrinkles, their faces sagged, they put on weight, maybe they lost their hair or it turned gray or white. Is everyone posting in this thread under 30? Have you never seen this progress in real life?
This is such a sad statement on what passes for our culture. Aging happens. Get used to it, with any luck it will happen to you too.
Don’t have a cow. Some people look like just an older version of their younger selves, while others become unrecognizable. This thread is about the latter. I don’t see anyone making judgments about it. Take a deep breath, please.
Kathleen Turner was the first name that came to my mind.
Under 30? I’m 68. This thread has nothing to do with mocking old people because they haven’t aged particularly well. It’s about actors who have changed so much from their younger selves that it’s very difficult to recognize they are the same person. Why you should believe such a topic is defamatory of the old is completely beyond me.
In photos it doesn’t show as well but I saw this voice I swore I knew when watching “42”. I was shocked to find out it was Max Gail. Wojo looked totally different from his Barney Miller days to me.
Howie Manndel isn’t that old, but he looks hella different on Deal or No Deal from how he looked during his stand-up years.
Jeff Bridges has morphed into Kris Kristofferson.
The OP didn’t specify tense and Fisher is equally not alive, if that’s what you’re getting at. He also became a certifiable maniac in his old age; maybe young Marlon was still crazy but hid it better.
In a similar vein, Weird Al Yankovic looks unrecognizable after changing his hair (head and facial) and getting LASIK or whatever.
Oh my god, here come the scolds, as per usual. People age differently. Some individuals age well, others don’t.
In Top Gun, the two leads were born a fortnight apart.
Tom Cruise; in Top Gun.
Tom Cruise;from a couple of years ago.
Antony Edwards as Goose:
Antony Edwards (on the left)from last year:
Actually quite the opposite. Saw him on Conan a bit ago and I am amazed at how much he looks just like he did years ago. Well, except for the hair.
In the “Are they sure they’re IDing the right person?” category, here’s supposedly Joni Mitchell going to Elton John’s birthday party.
To me, what I’ve noticed, famous women do a lot worse than the male side. An old facelift/face fixing of any kind is the worse!
Melanie Griffith comes to mind, I could be wrong about which actress but pretty sure its her
I might not be around for when the big butt Kardassian’s butt falls and not around for Angelia Jolie’s lips (if she is the one with big lips) deflate…but I’d sure like to see that
Smoking does a lot to your looks in the long run. I’d say that smoking to stay thin is not a trade for a crappy looking face later in life!
We all get old, and it makes changes, and I can’t fault people for that.
I didn’t recognize William Daniels in a recent picture
In my mind, he still looks like John Adams.
If they ever film The William Daniels Story they ought to get Chris Hayes from MSNBC to play him:
The one that amazes me is Walter Matthau. In his old age gravity seemed to be particularly nasty in drawing every part of his face down - he eyebrows, his nose, his jowls. He was still recognizably Walter Matthau, but he looked like Walter Matthau – The Incredible Melting Man. I can’t find any pictures that really show it – I think they always post the ones that show his “good side”, but watch Grumpy Old Men or Grumpier Old Men to see what I mean.
I didn’t recognize a recent photo of Matt LaBlanc
https://goo.gl/images/wz2qDQ
This is how I remember him
https://goo.gl/images/frHe8u
To me this is slightly different, in that his look is really a character look, sorta like Charlie Chaplin or Groucho Marx. The character is not how they look in real life.
Take away the character elements and yeah, he’s unrecognizable because he looks “normal”.
Two other standups who have changed from their trademark early look:
He looks pretty much the same, but with grey hair.
One that surprised me was Bradley Whitford. He’s 57 years old. I’m assuming his hair has been turning for a while and he’s been dying it. But he looked like this in 2014 and this in 2016. The change was so sudden I literally didn’t recognize him until he spoke.
One actor I’m surprised about is Frank Langella. I admire the man’s superb acting skills, but I was amazed at his seemingly abrupt transformation from long-haired Byronic heart-throb in films like The Twelve Chairs and Dracula
to stubble-haired scary serious guy without, apparently, passing through any pupal stages
I first saw this manifestation on stage when he played the part of Salieri on Broadway in Amadeus.
Billy Joel underwent a similar metamorphosis, but at least he smiles.
A guy I knew in grad school did the same thing. He had those Langellan locks in grad school, and is now a sour-faced bald professor.