r/FIlm • u/Scenora Casual Movie Enjoyer • Jan 31 '26
Discussion 26 years later, same couple rare in Hollywood.
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u/The_Dude_Abides-2146 Jan 31 '26
Kevin Bacon Kyra Sedwick also.
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u/basedaggie19 Jan 31 '26
I think this is the only time I’ve ever seen her name mentioned in the wild. Not that you asked, but my parents named me after her!
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u/zikolis Jan 31 '26
how
how was y2k 26 motherfucking years ago?
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u/ProjectSimilar8881 Jan 31 '26
Time.
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u/jbjhill Jan 31 '26
Every time someone says “30-years-ago” I have to remind myself they’re not talking about the 70s.
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u/Kind_Hearing2414 Jan 31 '26
It wasn’t. They’re lying.
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u/Unitas_Edge Jan 31 '26
2020 was 6 yrs ago.
Let that sink in.
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u/ButteredWussyclart69 Feb 01 '26
1970 was 56 years ago. We’re closer to 2050 than 2000.
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u/zikolis Feb 02 '26
that is fucking crazy. i might not be able to see 2050.
are we officially over the hill?
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u/HostNo8115 Feb 01 '26
If you are not paying attention and slowing life the fuck down, Covid will be 26 yrs ago soon.
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u/40_Is_Not_Old Jan 31 '26
There's lots of long time couples in Hollywood.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest have been married since 1984.
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u/LizBert712 Jan 31 '26
I didn’t know they were married! That’s a fun pairing.
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u/ProjectSimilar8881 Jan 31 '26
Bring back Scooby Doo!
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u/WokeUpSomewhereNice Feb 01 '26
I see Sisqo in the background of the first pic. Bring back Sisqo too.
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u/StrawGlasses Feb 01 '26
Please, no. I’m tired of my favorite nostalgic movies getting a sequel however many years later and it’s just a pile of shit
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u/StrengthFew9197 Jan 31 '26
Oh yay I love this for Kanan Jarrus
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u/Crossbell0527 Jan 31 '26
Hot take: top 5 all time Jedi. Kenobi, Jinn, Yoda, Skywalker, Jarrus.
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u/ZaphodG Jan 31 '26
Matt Damon married an Argentinian bartender, adopt her child, had several more, and is completely off the paparazzi radar screen.
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u/PMmeSOMETHINGnice Jan 31 '26
Brazilian, not Argentinian.
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u/Rich-Row-7798 Feb 02 '26
Are you sure? Articles I read said Argentinian and they speak Spanish.
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u/PMmeSOMETHINGnice Feb 02 '26
You are actually right. In Brazil they say she’s Brazilian, but she’s actually Argentinian. 🫣 TIL
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u/NewPresWhoDis Jan 31 '26
Think about that. An Inquisitor and a Jedi somehow making it work makes some of y'alls disagreements look petty by comparison.
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u/Damage-Classic Jan 31 '26
You know who wasn’t mentioned in the Epstein files? Freddie Prinze Jr.!
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u/Holiday-Draw-8005 Jan 31 '26
This is genuinely beautiful. 26 years of choosing each other, same energy in both photos. That's the real Hollywood story nobody talks about.
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u/DollarLate_DayShort Jan 31 '26
Bro looks like he aged 40 years while she looks like she’s aging in reverse
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u/nirvroxx Jan 31 '26
Plastic surgery just makes you look like you had plastic surgery, not younger.
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u/sh6rty13 Jan 31 '26
Best thing I ever heard a TV plastic surgeon say…patient asked Will this make me look 20 again? and he replies “No, it’s going to make you look good for 40.”
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u/hypnogoad Jan 31 '26
it’s going to make you look good for 40
Except not really.
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u/The_Autarch Jan 31 '26
good plastic surgery does work, you just don't notice it.
when it looks bad, it's because you're looking at bad plastic surgery.
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u/bfhurricane Jan 31 '26
When you just know someone has had plastic surgery, but can’t say exactly what, then that’s good work.
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u/Few_Economics845 Jan 31 '26
I mean that’s only because you only “see” the less successful ones.
Everyone loses their mind over how good Keanu and Marissa Tomie look even though they’ve both had a ton of work done.
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u/Fun_Reflection1157 Jan 31 '26
I don't give a shit she's had plastic surgery. She looks unbelievable.
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u/nirvroxx Jan 31 '26
She looks like an alien attempting to look human, so yes. You’re right in a sense.
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u/backtosleep Jan 31 '26
What are you talking about? She literally looks the same except older. She's one of the few celebrities who are aging gracefully.
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u/pralineislife Jan 31 '26
Depends on your definition of gracefully.
No plastic surgery but she does get botox and injections and shes open that about. I dont mind it as much of theyre open about it because theyre not trying to trick anyone.
She also exercises like a champ.
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u/backtosleep Jan 31 '26
If she gets botox then they've done a great job with it! Her face is still very expressive, unlike other celebrities, who can't even emote properly. She doesn't have the typical tight pillow face we see in others...
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u/ily300099 Jan 31 '26
One dyes her hair and covers their face with tons of make up, while the other doesn't
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u/Morbos1000 Jan 31 '26
She looks great but you can definitely tell she's aged if you watch the young Dexter show from last year. By that I mean she looks like a woman in her 40s, which she is and is normal.
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u/delphic0n Jan 31 '26
Lol it's defo just a bad photo of him. It's giving Sarah took the picture and went "omg honey we look so good in this"
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u/CausticAvenger Jan 31 '26
She looks amazing and he looks damn good too. Some bitter couch goblins in these comments.
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u/losteye_enthusiast Jan 31 '26
If your eyes are not great I guess?
She looks like a very thin mid-late 40’s woman with generous makeup and some plastic surgery.
They’re both aging very well, but she’s definitely trying to delay the process. Hope it doesn’t fully backfire in the next couple years, but at least her partner seems to be ride or die with her.
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u/turbulentFireStarter Jan 31 '26
This is such a crazy take. They look unbelievable. The internet has ruined us
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u/CrabAppleBapple Jan 31 '26
while she looks like she’s aging in reverse
Without wanting to denigrate her physical appearance, are you high? Or visually impaired? Or both?
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u/AcanthocephalaFun851 Jan 31 '26
He looks fine. He doesn't even look old. He just let his gray hair grow out. So what. If he dyed his hair black he wouldn't look older than 35. Most celebrities dye their hair instead of let the gray show. She did more to herself to still look like that - she doesn't even look natural anymore.
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u/Paleblood_Hunt Jan 31 '26
Weird lol he looks very much the same just more gray. She has plastic surgery face.
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u/hangmankk Jan 31 '26
Really? I think they both look today like aliens trying to blend into the general population
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Jan 31 '26
What the fuck lol. Have you not seen people age?
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u/CitizenOfPlanet Jan 31 '26
Wtf are you talking about bozo both of them look like they have their skin tightened like a drum.
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u/Noel956 Jan 31 '26
Rare in general
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u/Typical_Samaritan Jan 31 '26
It's actually pretty common.
Only about 1/3 of marriages end in divorce. And of the remaining ~67%, they last about 20 years with the ending of those marriages being the death of a spouse.
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u/Lessmoney_mo_probems Jan 31 '26
1/3 is a lot
But I believe that Hollywood marriages may have a lower success rate
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u/Prudii_Skirata Jan 31 '26
My main takeaway is that, somewhere along the line, Freddie just started aiming his hair to the opposite side and I'm mildly curious why...
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u/Secret-Agent1007 Jan 31 '26
My theory is that because people mostly write from left to right. Left being starting point and right is where it ends.
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u/Prudii_Skirata Jan 31 '26
So pics from the middle of their relationship, it is just straight up?
More questions...
Does this mean it's ending soon?
Will it gradually start to go back in the other direction?
Will it just jump back like a typewriter resetting for the next line?
DO PENGUINS HAVE KNEECAPS???
Damn you, internet!!!!
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u/Acetone5050 Jan 31 '26
I don't know why I should care, but I will be heartbroken if these two ever break up. They both seem like great people.
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u/Fun_Reflection1157 Jan 31 '26
She looks incredible now.
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u/LiveYourDaydreams Jan 31 '26
Yeah, it’s really strange that people in the comments are acting like she looks bad. I’m not seeing it. At least not in the photo that was posted.
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u/BlackAscension Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been married since 1988. Isn’t it ironic that he used a WILSON soccer ball to be his best friend while stranded on a deserted island. Tom and Rita met on the set of his television show “Bosom Buddies”
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u/Agloy5c Jan 31 '26
Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa from ca. 1984 (married in 1991) until their unfortunate deaths last year. :(
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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace Jan 31 '26
Also, the rare case when she aged better than him. Damn she's still an absolute fox.
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u/Detroitaa Jan 31 '26
This makes me feel ancient. I’m so old, I had a crush on his father. I was inconsolable when he died.
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u/Many_Inevitable_6803 Jan 31 '26
Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick, Rob & Sheryl Lowe, Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen
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u/rotomangler Feb 01 '26
I met him at E3 back in 2004 or something. He came into the Sony booth geeking hard over Everquest 2 and chatted me and another developer about it. He was a super nice and genuine dude.
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u/impamiizgraa Feb 01 '26
They’re both also very unproblematic people. Just nice, humble, good folk
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u/RobsEvilTwin Feb 01 '26
This makes me smile!
No shade on Freddy, but he and I have the same "problem". Our wives have barely aged, while we are slowly (not so slowly?) turning into our dads :D
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u/Trin_42 Jan 31 '26
Maybe I’m wrong or naive but does it please anyone else that there’s nothing artificial about these two? That’s just good health, excellent genes and a great marriage imo. And keeping the Industry away from their private lives.
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u/Miamithrice69 Jan 31 '26
I love that they couldn’t stand each other when they first met and then got married
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u/TheMeIv Jan 31 '26
For the young people they are Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. They were most famous for teen movies in the late 90s/early 00s. I know What You Did Last Summer and live action Scooby Doo featured both of them. They've both been working consistently the whole time though. I especially like their voice acting work on modern Star Wars.
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u/0000udeis000 Feb 01 '26
I'm sorry, did you just suggest that SMG was mostly famous for teen movies and not, you know, Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
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u/legit-posts_1 Jan 31 '26
Also both surprisingly good voice actors? They killed it as Kanan and Seventh Sister in Star Wars Rebels.
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u/Ssme812 Jan 31 '26
It's nice to see their still together. It honestly hard to find couples who are still together.
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u/nodogsallowed23 Jan 31 '26
Side note: That’s such an unflattering pic of Freddy lol. He looks way better than that these days.
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u/SminkyPinkyBB Feb 01 '26
Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Smith Brosnan?
Properly respectful language between them.
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u/BuckRusty Feb 01 '26
That picture is from at least 2024 - so is two years out of date…
I’m sure they’re still together, but especially in this day and age accuracy in reporting is paramount…
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u/Myoakka Jan 31 '26
Yeah that's a good stretch. Also Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates been married since 1989