Lyle Lovett was on The Tonight Show, and I was reminded of how I always thought he should be in Newsreel footage from the Depression or something.
I can picture Aaron Paul in a Civil War photo like this one.
right now? george clooney is a leading man for the 70s while bruce willis should be making 50s and 60s war epics with heston, lancaster and borgnine.
Scarlett Johansen (sp?) and Gwen Stefani both cultivate throwback looks, quite well imho. Scarlett seems very 1940s pinup girl, and Stefani has a late forties vibe, with the exaggerated hair color and always red lips. And Flo from the Progressive insurance ads wouldn’t look out of place as a backup singer in an early sixties girl group.
Celebrities who don’t seem to cultivate a particular style, who look like they belong to another era: Hugh Laurie has always struck me as having a face that would look natural in a tintype of a Civil War soldier. And even in his younger days, Clint Eastwood looked like a western pioneer or cowboy or outlaw riding with the James Younger gang. And George Clooney could be photoshopped into a Rat Pack candid picture and look right at home with Dean and Frank and Sammy and Joey.
I agree with all the ones mentioned (though I don’t know who Aaron Paul is).
Since I first saw her in the wonderful Kaboom, I’ve thought that Juno Temple needs to star in a '30’s screwball comedy.
:smack: I can’t believe I forgot about Clooney.
Sheryl Crow has said she’s always identified with the late seventies pop rock era and I agree. You can just picture her appearing on The Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack.
I came in to say George Clooney - you could put him on any movie poster between 1930 and 1960, and he wouldn’t look out of place.
Speaking of guys who look like they below in the Civil War, I’ve always thought Norman Reedus, who plays Darryl on The Walking Dead fits the bill.
Josh Hartnett has always looked like a convict to me, so I guess any prison film would work.
Timothy Omundson, from Psych, could easily be from the 50s. He was perfectly cast in a small role in Down With Love.
Of course we all realize Sam Elliot was transported from the wild west in the 1880s using a time machine.
Definitely, he would fit right in with the guys in the OP’s picture.
I’ll bet he was the mumbling, frontier-gibberish-speaking old geezer seen in Blazing Saddles.
I saw an old photo of John Brown, the radical abolitionist of the 1850s, and thought he looked a lot like Gary Sinise.
Laura Dern has a Roosevelt-era quality to her.
I’m willing to bet that has something to do with this photo.
I think Kevin Spacey has a out-of-time look. He belongs in the 1940’s with that (cute) face. Also John Hamm of Mad Men has that 50’s movie-star look.
Tilda Swinton is from about, oh, 2050.
So true! From another era and another planet.
Christina Ricci looks like she could just step into a 30’ or 40’s film, or for that matter, a silent film. Maybe it is her eyes and shape of her head, but she just looks like what they called a “vamp” back in the day.
Cate Blanchett always seemed like some sort of medieval queen to me.
Helena Bonham Carter looks like she’s from the 1800’s or earlier, which probably is one reason why she does so many historical dramas and fantasies.