# At what age (if ever) will Marisa Tomei cease to be insanely hot? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517 "2016-12-12T14:11:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/1 "2016-12-12T14:11:37Z")
In 2017, Marissa Tomei will again portray Spider-man’s Aunt May. Some on the internet get the idea that it makes sense that a teenager’s aunt would not likely be an old lady as Aunt May has traditionally been portrayed. But others have complained that it’s just not right for Aunt May to be “young and hot”. As to her being young, consider that Marisa Tomei just turned 52. Many 52 years olds may resist calling themselves _old_ but very few would identify as young. It’s certainly old enough to be a teenager’s aunt. Still, Tomei’s Aunt May gets referred to as “young and hot” because, well, Marisa Tomei is _insanely_ hot! Personally, I can’t imagine her becoming anything less than insanely hot in the near future. I thought I’d start a poll here so that everyone can make a prediction as to when Marisa Tomei will cease to be insanely hot. When that day finally comes (if, in fact it ever does), we can resurrect this Thread to see who came the closest to guessing correctly. The poll options will not be descriptive, only dates/ages will be listed. So, use your post to describe how she will transition out of insane hotness (Will she become a sophisticated beauty? an attractive -but not insanely so- older woman? a handsome old broad? Will she transition from insane hotness immediately into homeliness?). NOTE: As a point of reference, consider that Helen Mirren, who is still insanely hot, is currently aged 71 (as of the writing of this OP). Julie Christie, age 76, only recently transitioned from insanely hot to sophisticated older beauty (within the past 7 or 8 years, I wasn’t paying attention, not sure exactly when it happened). ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/2 "2016-12-12T14:19:11Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > use your post to describe how she will transition out of insane hotness I figure since Helen Mirren at age 71 shows no signs of ceasing to be insanely hot that it’s not out of the realm of possibility to break past 75 (although, I’d have thought that if anyone could do it, it would have been Julie Christie). So, I’m going to conservatively predict age 80 for Marisa Tomei. After age 80 she will progress into a refined older beauty but not quite insanely hot. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/3 "2016-12-12T14:23:49Z")
Ms Tomei is two years younger than I am, and therefore shall always be “insanely hot.” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/4 "2016-12-12T14:23:58Z")
George Costanza, is that you? 😉 Great thread! I went with “60,” but I could very well be wrong, and that would be just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/5 "2016-12-12T14:27:02Z")
Marisa Tomei will always be insanely hot. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/6 "2016-12-12T15:06:35Z")
I also selected 80 as the age when she might reasonable slide into “older beauty,” but she could blow through the octogenarian frontier with no loss of hotness. It probably has a lot to do with the fact that I’m only a couple of years behind her, so I’m like a high school freshman gazing at a super attractive senior girl who will always be out of my league. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/7 "2016-12-12T15:12:56Z")
Since Marisa Tomei made such a wonderful impression in ‘My Cousin Vinny’, she will always be hot to me. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/8 "2016-12-12T15:21:06Z")
She’s so hot that she’s always just 3 degrees before TDC. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/9 "2016-12-12T15:28:34Z")
Depends how good a job the mortician does. I’m NOT implying anything. I’m NOT! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/10 "2016-12-12T15:29:28Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > She’s so hot that she’s always just 3 degrees before TDC. So you’re saying it’s a bullshit question? ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/11 "2016-12-12T15:36:32Z")
[QUOTE=bienville] I figure since Helen Mirren at age 71 shows no signs of ceasing to be insanely hot that it’s not out of the realm of possibility to break past 75 (although, I’d have thought that if anyone could do it, it would have been Julie Christie). [/QUOTE] Well, [Blythe Danner](https://www.google.com/search?q=blythe+danner&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJtITM_e7QAhVCiVQKHWMcAUYQiR4IiQE&biw=1255&bih=809) shows no sign of cooling off at age 73… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/12 "2016-12-12T15:38:52Z")
Big question here. Do you mean marisa Tomei in her movie makeup or Marisa Tomei as a 50-year-old in [real life](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2535997/Make-free-Marisa-Tomei-wears-drab-cardigan-grungy-boyfriend-jeans-lunch-Melrose.html)? If it’s the former, probably years. If it’s the latter, the insanely hot ship has sailed. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/13 "2016-12-12T15:52:28Z")
I dunno, aside from the glasses and whatever she’s doing with her mouth there, she still looks pretty fine in that picture. _Especially_ for 50+. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/14 "2016-12-12T15:54:27Z")
Even at 50ish in average girl clothes she’s as hot if not hotter that half the girls you’d see walking around. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/15 "2016-12-12T15:57:48Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Big question here. Do you mean marisa Tomei in her movie makeup or Marisa Tomei as a 50-year-old in [real life](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2535997/Make-free-Marisa-Tomei-wears-drab-cardigan-grungy-boyfriend-jeans-lunch-Melrose.html)? > > If it’s the former, probably years. If it’s the latter, the insanely hot ship has sailed. I’m sorry, but she still looks damn hot in that article. There’s nothing there that a smile doesn’t fix. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/16 "2016-12-12T16:22:38Z")
I’ve been a fan of her’s since she played “Marcy Thompson” on _As The Word Turns_ back in 1983-84, back when Meg Ryan was still on the show. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/17 "2016-12-12T17:09:01Z")
Two other examples of “hot for life”: [Elle MacPherson (52)](http://us.hellomagazine.com/imagenes/healthandbeauty/health-and-fitness/2016011829308/elle-macpherson-shares-health-and-fitness-tips/0-144-179/elle1--a.jpg) [Liz Hurley (51)](https://peopledotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/elizabeth-hurley-600.jpg?w=600) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/18 "2016-12-12T18:58:14Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I’m sorry, but she still looks damn hot in that article. There’s nothing there that a smile doesn’t fix. I’m with **Quartz** on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/19 "2016-12-12T19:26:21Z")
Helen Mirren and Marisa Tomei are both very attractive women, and Tomei more so than Mirren, but neither is “insanely hot” anymore. Sorry, man. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/20 "2016-12-12T19:30:00Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Two other examples of “hot for life”: > > [Elle MacPherson (52)](http://us.hellomagazine.com/imagenes/healthandbeauty/health-and-fitness/2016011829308/elle-macpherson-shares-health-and-fitness-tips/0-144-179/elle1--a.jpg) > [Liz Hurley (51)](https://peopledotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/elizabeth-hurley-600.jpg?w=600) There’s also [Christie Brinkley (62)](http://people.com/style/christie-brinkley-may-be-62-but-these-photos-prove-shes-benjamin-buttoning-through-life/) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517.md?page=2)