Just watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Nicholson was 38 during filming. I thought he looked 50 too.

When I was a kid, restaurants still smelled like tobacco.

Didn't really stop until early 2000's

Recently did a watch of Rear Window (1954), and yeah, there's a scene in the beginning where the main character's nurse calls the main character "young man". Main character (Jimmy Stewart?) was 46 at the film's release.

Wild.

Sunlight is the big factor in premature aging of the skin and especially face. Cigarettes are said to be a big factor too, as is hard liquor to excess.

It isn't cigarettes. It's being outside in the sun a lot more that really ages. Cigarettes are can but don't age people nearly as much as UV does.

That explains a lot, what with the sleep deprivation and drastic lifestyle changes brought on my most kids.

Ugh married his 4 kids too that's sick

And the gabagool

Also pesticides were even more unregulated than they are now. Remember how they just sprayed DDT everywhere in the 40's till the 70's. Even on directly on people. Shit had multigenerational consequences, even grandchildren of people who had a high exposure to that stuff are being affected.

I smoked from 15 to 30 drank every weekend in the same time. 40 now and I look more like the one on the right

Liquid Plastic Surgery in a Bottle

There weren't microplastics in their bodies to speak of, this is like 95% just in the past two decades.

Also having kids.

But it isn't? It's crazy how Lemmy just overconfidently states this multiple times even it's actually sun exposure that aged people so much back then .

And that nobody has AIDS.

I have the body of the left but the clothing of the right.

Lawsuit intensifies

And weed.

He was actually 41 in the show. In real life Frasier’s actual age was 38 so Hollywood went backwards and casted a younger person then the character. Cigarrettes had such a massive effect on people’s looks back then.

I'm from the shtreets! I dress shrtreet! If you don't like it, you can come rip these clothes right off my sexy naked body

Awful example. The 90s had WAAAAAAAAY less stress than today.

Tony was 41 per the pilot script but the actor was 38.

AJ is now 41 in 2026.

George Costanza was in his 30s throughout the run of seinfeld

After a few seasons yeah

Also waaaaaaaay less drinking

My brother is an early 70's born gen x, I'm a late 80's born millennial. From what I've seen drinking and smoking being publicly accessible and socially acceptable made them way more prevelantly indulged in.