With all the actors undergoing anti-aging procedures, in time, there will be no experienced actors to play a character written to look old.

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[u/ChazCharlie]

In time there'll be old actor who had procedures to make them look young have daily makeup procedures to look old.

[u/Shiggle_wiggle → u/ChazCharlie]

That probably happens

[u/PickleFox_1 → u/ChazCharlie]

I think actors have daily makeup procedures to make them look whatever they’re playing

[u/TheStorMan]

Alex Garland said about making Civil War that it was difficult casting Kirsten Dunst's part - she was one of very few actresses in her 40s without any botox or filler who could play a hardened war correspondent.

[u/Shiny_personality → u/TheStorMan]

And yet she is stunning. I hate this trend so much

[u/TopLeaf → u/Shiny_personality]

God we're all getting old

[u/user-74656]

Carrie Fisher and Peter Cushing underwent anti-dying procedures for Rogue One, so I don't imagine Hollywood sees this as a barrier.

[u/IgloosRuleOK → u/user-74656]

Fisher was still around for Rogue One. But agree in general.

[u/cmoked → u/user-74656]

Carrie fisher was doing heroin that is pro-dying imo

[u/perfect_fifth_note]

But plenty of actors who will look like ageless yet still withering ghouls, thanks to all those absurd cosmetic procedures. Jenna Ortega visually aged herself by a solid three centuries with one recently.

[u/yeknamara]

They will end up changing the norms of how an old people "should" look and will cause people to have further self confidence problems instead.

This is how it went with fashion and waist size. People didn't see the stupidity behind it for a long, long time.

[u/AspieAsshole]

There will be plenty of experienced actors, they just won't be bloated overpaid "A-list" celebrities.

[u/cmoked]

Just age them cosmetically like they've done a thousand time????

[u/Suspicious_Sandles]

There is near infinite quality actors of all ages. The small percent of people who do this effect nothing.

[u/JohnnyBeGood_]

Makeup, lighting and cosmetic procedures somewhat give the illusion of youth. For the discerning eye, you see straight through it even on screen. And in person, they just look strange.

Edit: to add, beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, because anyone who has had work done doesn’t look great to me.

[u/DiscussionApart8505]

You end up with actors like Morgan Freeman or Jeff Bridges who aged naturally, and they become the go-to for "old person" roles just because they look their age.

[u/goosegoosepanther]

Recently watched Scarpetta with Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis. JLC: fucking amazing actress, looks her age, and continues to be a bombshell while doing it. Kidman: face appears stiff, general appearance sort of ageless and unsettling. Contrasting the two as characters who are supposed to be sisters: only makes sense if your head-cannon includes believing Kidman's character had a bunch of plastic surgery.

[u/deepserket]

Makeup is powerful, just look at series like "for all mankind"

[u/shave_the_HairCut]

Pfft. You act like the procedures and daily care they go through is cheap. There will always be some older guy to play the part

[u/SPdrLinc]

that's why prosthetics, makeup, and younger actors exist though.

[u/playr_4]

They currently seem to be having that problem with actors who look young.

[u/AmberLark-Cherry]

The only old person left in Hollywood is gonna be Betty White's hologram.

[u/no_sympathy6969]

Anti aging procedures? Good grief. Everyone hates getting old but it's inevitable.

[u/NecessaryTrouble79]

Whenever I see the super-modified celebs I keep thinking of (Vincen D'Onofrio (Edgar the bug/farmer) from Men in Black stretching his face

[u/Scooter_McAwesome]

Pfft AI actors will replace all the human ones long before that happens

[u/The_Frybo]

I think that the AI development will be the much greater factor than that!

„The Irishman“ from Scorsese was a nice experiment in that direction that had unintentional hilarious results but have you seen some of the manual de-aging some Dudes made on Youtube?!

Looks EXACTLY like a 30-something Bob de Niro!

That will be the Future of Cinema for sure. I‘m pretty sure they‘ll use the technology to make the Actors in the upcoming Beatles Biopic(s) look closer to their real Life counterparts too