Too funny!
Francis Bavier, Aunt Bee, was 58 when she first starred in Andy Griffith.
I recently learned that the actress Katheryn Winnick was 47 years old, and I thought, holy crap that’s old.
Then I remembered I was a year older.
When All in the Family premiered, Carrol O’Conner was 46 and Jean Stapleton was 48. I’m more than a decade older than either of them (and starting to think that the age that O’Conner died (71) was too young).
When I was a kid, 2000 was so far in the future. In elementary school, one teacher asked us to figure out how old we’d be then - I’d be in my 30s (and obviously, my adult teacher would be dead - or like 50, which had to be the same thing).
In Doctor Who, there’s a character who was born in 2004, and goes to the future to 2046. It’s okay, I thought, that Ruby in 2046 would be younger than I am today. Then later we meet her mother, and I realized that the mother of an adult in 2024, is so much younger than me, that even in 2046, she’d be younger than I am today.
I like finding out that famous events occurred at (roughly) the same time. For example, the cover photo for the Beatles’ Abbey Road album was taken one day before the Manson murders.
That, and Chappaquiddick, the moon landing, and Woodstock all happened within the same four weeks.
This has happened to me multiple times, where an actor I saw on TV as a small child looked rather mature, but when I saw them again in the same show on Youtube as an adult, they looked positively young.
Heck, in the end of 1992, I was an extra in two scenes of the episode “Reunion” of *Kung Fu: The Legend Continues". One of these was filmed on a soundstage in Mississauga (just outside Toronto) and was a flashback to a Shaolin temple. The Canadian actress Laura Bertram was in that scene. At the time, I was 13 and she was 14. To me she seemed to be an attractive older girl. Then I finally got to watch the episode (for the first time!) when I was 21. When doing so, Bertram absolutely seemed like “a kid” to me.
I was a big fan of that show. That’s pretty cool.
I find it interesting that three US Presidents (George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump) were born within three months of each other in 1946.
When Star Wars was re-released in 1997, I watched it again, fully expecting to see Luke as a whiny kid. What shocked me was that Han looked like a kid too.
I think I need to go lie down. I’m 6 years older.
I am the age that ¾ of the main characters were at the beginning of Golden Girls.
https://screenrant.com/how-old-were-the-golden-girls/
And I’m older than Rue (Blanche) was at the beginning.
55 isn’t as old as it used to be.
The wiki on “They All Laughed” (1980) describes Audrey Hepburn’s character as “aged, but glamorous.” She would have been 50 when it was filmed, and she still had it going on–not someone you’d describe as ‘aged.’ And, if you haven’t seen it, this is mainly a Bogdanovich vanity film where John Ritter is playing a younger Bogdanovich, longing for a girl way out of his league, and not really what you would call a ‘comedy.’
“That’s what I love about these voters; the president keeps getting older, and they stay the same age.”