#older actors

[seph7]

Some of my favourite older actors!

Brent Spiner

Clancy Brown

Tommy Lee Jones

William Fichtner

David Morse

James Purefoy

Stephen Lang

Christopher Meloni

John Malkovich

And, as always, J.T. Walsh

[thenookienostradamus]

Ok so one of the things I liked about TRoP that I'm guessing many did not was the fact that it made use of a LOT of over-35 actors. Many of them 40+. In an extremely ageist film industry, I think that's pretty remarkable.

I mean, one could definitely argue that it was possible in some cases to find, let's say, more exquisite specimens of the 40+ crowd to represent Elves. I don't think anyone would argue that folks like, say, Thandiwe Newton (50), or Gael Garcia Bernal (44), or Daniel Dae Kim (55), or Aishwarya Rai (49), or Mahershala Ali (48) are sufficiently otherworldly-looking to be convincing Elves. I mean, hell, Hugo Weaving was already 41 when he played Elrond for the first time in 2001.

But it was fantastic to see some people who aren't 19, 22, 25 as dashing heroes and romantic leads. The extremely lovely Nazanin Boniadi (Bronwyn) is 42 - seven years older than her onscreen love interest, Ismael Cruz Cordova, who is objectively the prettiest Elf by far.

I definitely would have preferred an intriguing-looking 40-something Sauron to the 29-year-old Generic White Boy we got.

As someone who was mildly shocked 21 years ago by Jackson's casting choice for Elrond (look, I was 22 and by my own admission knew sweet fuck-all about anything), I'm now considerably more appreciative of older actors getting fat chunks of screen time. No matter who you are, you want to see people who look like you in media.

[theghostwrites]

[bitchthefuck1]

Something about how physically small Ellie looks in this episode just makes it all so much more intense. How little she is curled next to Joel, how big the rifle looks when she holds it, the way David is able to pick her up so easily. The contrast in the size of their hands when he's telling her that she, a 14-year-old, is his only equal, and how tiny hers look when she wraps her arms around Joel; the way his coat reaches her knees when he drapes it over her. Every second the camera spends on her is forcing you to look at how young she is and it just makes it all so much more awful.

[iancumminsauthor]

How old are these people? Older than me!

Bob Dylan

Mick Jagger

Paul McCartney

Bruce Springsteen

Billy Connolly

Liam Neeson

Bill Murray

Meryl Streep

Lynda Carter

Helen Mirren

Joanna Lumley

Sigourney Weaver

Barbra Streisand

Debbie Harry

Diana Ross

Judi Dench

Cher

Lulu

King Charles III

Morgan Freeman

Robert De Niro

Harrison Ford

Clint Eastwood

Dustin Hoffman

Christopher Walkern

& King Charles III

[cinemabuffoon]

If I'm not supposed to have crushes on middle aged men then why are they so hot? Explain that political party of your choosing

[kitconnor]

season one → season two 🍂

[doodlboy]

My favorite bit is when The Doctor says smthn akin to "I was so young then," and it's a flashback to a previous actor who is visibly older than the current one

[xxautumnivyxx]

The contrast between these two sets was a lot of fun. Might explore other series “partner” sets in the future.

[macksartblock]

Wow I love Four Dads in Fantasy World(???)

[novelconcepts]

The more the show progresses, the more I want to see the 90s cast infiltrating the modern timeline. We've gotten hints of it with Shauna and her younger self, her Jackie hauntings. We've gotten a little more with adult Lottie seeing teenage Nat (and Laura Lee), and with Natalie getting teenage Lottie in her final moments. I want more. I want the teen cast to be absolutely invasive on pivotal adult moments, infecting their adult counterparts when least expected. I want Taissa's argument with Van to dissolve into their teenage selves, their bond endless and timeless and inescapable. I want Misty absolutely wrecked by young Natalie lurking around corners, watching from mirrors. I want to see these women unable to navigate adulthood without the specters of their teenage selves cropping up absolutely everywhere, more and more as they let the memories in, as they stop being able to repress the trauma. They didn't grow up. They never could. You are always doomed to regress around your high school teammates. You are haunted by the phantom elements of your misspent youth. It is a comfort, and it is a gift, and it is a trial, and it is a curse. I would love to see that reflected with greater intensity, until the lines blur, until the timelines have no choice but to intersect. They haven't escaped themselves at all. They didn't grow up. They just got older.

[iwait-4-u]

Girl dinner !!

[turtleblogatlast]

Feeling a lot of trans Leo feelings rn and I would like to reiterate how possible it is for him to not only be trans but also have no idea at all about it.

Okay so, he’s bigger than Donnie, particularly carapace wise, which tends to be the case when the slider is female and the softshell is male.

Second, his coloring. He retains the same coloring his whole life, even as a much older adult, so there’s another tick in the trans checklist, especially being that said coloring is noticeably bright.

His demeanor is also pretty at odds from most male red eared sliders - one example of this being when Bullhop was staying with them and Leo is noticeably less angered by him being both in their territory and in general than the others are - male red eared sliders would be way more combative here.

Like alone none of these are 100% definitive indicators but all together it makes perfect sense to me personally.

Now, how would it work for Leo to not know?

Okay, bear with me, but I like to think it’s because of Splinter’s (or rather, Lou Jitsu’s) genetics! As in, of course Leo wouldn’t assume otherwise, after all, his human self is very masc, including his lower voice and overall body type, so he and his family would have no reason to assume that he’s actually trans! But I personally like to think that it is because of Lou Jitsu’s DNA that Leo’s humanoid half turned out so masc in comparison to his more female aligning turtle half.

So yeah. Female red eared slider mutated with the DNA of a human man equals a turtle teen with no idea he’s trans (or potentially intersex.)

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vintage 80s Monster Vitamins ad with Vincent Price

[goryhorroor]

more legendary faces of horror

[thresholdbb]

I can fix him

Except he is a beloved 58-year-old science fiction franchise being smashed into the ground for profit and I am a potato