They're different people? I thought that was just angle and lighting.

What if James Bond did a pdrn mask every time he was supposed to drink and smoke and every time he was supposed have a villain try to torture him he got HIFU instead?

"White boy from town, why you no eat you own baby food?"

Its the angle and lightning. If you look up other pictures of him he looks more like an actual adult. Still way younger looking than Sean of course.

I was gonna say, Thomas definitely looks younger here than Sean looks older

I know 50+ year old men who get plenty, and look pretty hot. The key, besides genetics, seems to be both not smoking and doing enough sports.

Older men used to be considered more sexy. Nowadays a guy over 40 is basically a corpse

Ouch!

If only!

Air pollution was worse in the last century https://ourworldindata.org/outdoor-air-pollution

Pollution was worse back then, look up smog in the 70s. We've introduced catalytic converters, emissions standards, etc. Most people now question why we need clean air laws because we have clean air, much like people thinking we don't need vaccines because those diseases aren't around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(United_States)

I'm sure sun exposure also plays a role, everyone wears SPF 8000 sunblock now, while they were putting on tanning oil back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s

There's significantly less air and water pollution now than the past, with the only exception being microplastics. We haven't found many short-term impacts from that yet, though

Pollution was probably another contributing factor; I'd be surprised if it wasn't a lot worse in the 60s than it is now: a lot of environmental controls got put in place in the intervening decades. Remember, there was leaded gasoline everywhere, and acid rain scares and the ozone layer depletion in the 80s.

Connery also grew in the wake of WW2, that kind of stress ages you early

It’s a combination of many factors over time. Diet, sun exposure, smoking. Lots of things we have more information about now than we did then. Medicine is better, genetics, etc.

Oh ya, because removing lead from the air made it so much worse. /s

Nah you’ll just throw your back out instead

What knees? Your bones are gone, dumb vegoon. They evaporated the moment you stopped consuming animals.

-Signed a dog meat lover

Re: the other comment, isn't it weird how people just come up to you on the internet, and say, "hey, I'm an asshole, block me!" That's weird.

How will Bond stop the laser satellite launch when its scheduled at midnight, more than two hours past his bedtime?

So the new Bond will be a Gen-Xer…

Welcome to lasertag and techno!

Sir Sean

25 or 6 to 4

Calm down, Gendo Ikari!

Goldfinch

goooooldddFINCHAAAAA... .the bird with the MIDAS TOUCH! Such a coooold finchaahhh

And crazy enough, He grew up in Scottland, That puts you on the less likely end of the scale to grow up with too much sun :)

Stress is the largest source of aging. The more severe the stress the faster people age.

The most extreme case I saw was a former coworker. When we worked together we were both in our late 20's. She then went onto another job and we lost contact.

5 years later I ran into her at a meeting and was shocked. Unfortunately her younger son had died of cancer in the meantime and the stress had aged her 20+ years. She looked in her late 50's not mid 30's.