What is wrong with Ray Liotta?

Too much Xanax and Botox? Or it could be Parkinson's?

It looks like lots of botox and fillers are at work there.

He’s looked like that for years.

I just saw that the other day, its bizarre. Like some kind of performance art thing. I really kept thinking are they being ironic? Like most aging actors over do the fillers so lets spoof off that. I kept waiting for something to happen at the end like his face falls off and we realize he is a Ray Liotta Bot.

I don't think he is mentally challenged. The pacing of the commercial is just kind of slow. They must have told him to do it that way to sound relaxed (since he doesn't smoke anymore.)

He looks embalmed.

He was sex on a stick (in a deranged sort of way) in Something Wild.

Chantix makes some feel blunted affect. Zombies with a propensity for brain seizures. Chantix-Wellbutrin is a strange drug. IMHO the antidepressants to avoid: Zoloft, Paxil, Wellbutrin-Chantix

Aggression, Hostility, Agitation? Aren't those the side effects that Ray Liotta is famous for? Who wants a mob guy that is well balanced with patients of a saint? Maybe that's his secret.

Botox and Booze

Too much Botox eyebrows over tweesed. But then, I know many gay men who are on the same plan.

He looks great - enjoy your break, Ray!

R10 Yeah right, but the tablets of Varenicline have no effect? Not bloody likely with the list of adverse effects! I know people who were on it said that they felt as if they were tranquilised and in slo mo.

He acts like part of his brain was removed

[quote]He’s looked like that for years.

Sad but true.

R8, I'm sure he hasn't taken Chantix for months so those effects, if they even happen at all, are long gone. I tried Chantix twice. The second time I was just done with smoking, so it was really easy and the drug worked well with no adverse effects. You're supposed to take it for 3 months. I didn't bother renewing the prescription for the third month. I've had no desire for a cigarette in 8 years.

He's always had a weird face, Botox and fillers have just made it weirder.

R16 here, I just remembered...the one adverse effect was 10 - 15 minutes of mild nausea but the positive was the definite nicotine buzz with the nausea and morning coffee buzz (all fucked up, I know)

Ah, he looks just like Charles Durning. Kind of slow but twinkly on his toes.

Yes R17, a friend experienced weakness in the mornings too. After a seizure, he discontinued the tablets.

R16 Great that it was so effective in helping you quit.

I quit smoking 10 years ago this summer. I've gained 40 lbs in that decade. In three weeks I go for surgery to have half my right lung removed. I guess I should have kept smoking...

Waiting for input from "adopted as infant, abandonment issues" troll to set us straight as to the real problem going on here.

[quote]Chantix-Wellbutrin is a strange drug. IMHO the antidepressants to avoid: Zoloft, Paxil, Wellbutrin-Chantix

Wellbutrin (Bupropion) is different from Chantix (Varenicline). The smoking-cessation brand of Wellbutrin is called Zyban.

They are different chemical families and they work differently. Chantix is not used as an antidepressant.

Ray has had some "enhancements" and often appears to use eye liner on his bottom lids.

The botox and fillers make him look older than he is. And the eye liner...

If he had a swoopy hairdo, he'd look a lot like Virgina Graham.

I prefer cornpone country pussy, but I have a mind to try a taste.

I agree he's had a lot of Botox. What's saddest to me is when some actors age they think the plastic surgeon is going to be able to retain their youth for them and they can't look in the mirror and see the horrors they've allowed these butchers to turn them into.

Lookin' totally natural, just like Kenny Rogers and Burt Reynolds!

R23 I know what they are, but thanks! I've taken them both, they're awful. I put them together as many Dr.'s give both, or try both. They have been proven to work better together: study can be found in 8 Jan issue of JAMA 2014. Was initially Rx'd the duo, then tried both seperately. Still smoke only hand-rolled cigs very occasionally. Sorry to hear your news R21. Wishing you well, continue to remain strong.

That kind of pock marked skin has a very small "Sell By" date. He hasn't looked hot for a couple of decades now. From the neck up anyway.

I think his complexion has gotten better actually, though there is something off about him.

Maybe those light eyes that once were so cool now look, I don't know, "zombie".

Man can’t even smile anymore. 😂

alcohol bloat plus too much facelift/fillers.

dumb

wouldn't want him shilling for my products...

I always confuse him with liev schrieber

I also started a thread about this.

He's turned into Meg Foster.

He got his pock marks lasered off and a bad eye job and botox

[quote]He got his pock marks lasered off and a bad eye job and botox

His eyes look better in that commercial than they have in recent years. Like in the picture below, they were looking far more slitty and reptilian there for awhile. I think the surgery finally settled and he's looking more doe-eyed like he did when younger.

Those eyes used to be so gorgeous.

"Wild Hogs" in '07 was the last hurrah for Ray's hotness---it unraveled VERY quickly after that

Liotta had lovely eyes with unusually thick lashes (I wonder if he has distichiasis like Liz?), but his thin, lizard lips always unnerved me.

i suppose that's partly why he was typecast as psychos and gangsters-the juxtaposition of his soft, expressive eyes against that inscrutable, inhuman mouth.

He's had a lot of plastic surgery but I guess it has somewhat settled, looks OK to me. I watch shades of blue and he's in it.

His face seens frozen plus his affect is weirdly flat, almost robotic.

I wish they’d yank this commercial already. Do they not realize that it’s depressing?

[QUOTE]The film star, who was stepping out with his daughter Karsen, looked completely unrecognisable as he arrived for his nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor for his role in Texas Rising.

[QUOTE]Sadly for him he lost out to Luther hunk Idris Elba, but you couldn't tell if he was upset as his face looked suspiciously taught and stuck in a permanent smile.

😂 Ouch.

Hannibal Lector ate his cerebral cortex remember?

He always had bad skin..........

And it probably started with some plastic surgeon telling him he could make it all go away. He was gonna make Ray beautiful.

He's looked like that for years. I can hardly look at him since Hannibal ate his brains from his head in Silence of the Lambs. That was probably the most disturbing thing I've ever seen in a movie.

Holy crap! He got the Sally Jessie Raphael Special! (Had his laugh lines obliterated). Now his features look like they were permanently erased with the clone stamp tool.

his hair, is that real? it's quit thick.

What does he look like without eyeliner? Was he responsible for the atrocity known as guyliner?

Fank you Chantix!

lousy facelift

wow

Jesus, I just saw this for the first time. He's either drunk or slurring his words due to a stroke or a progressive disease. He's got so much makeup on -- in one scene he's got foundation, eyeliner and more blusher than Ivanka Trump.

That was painful to watch.

He looks like a runaway from Madame Tussaud.

He needs a cigarette.

I don't find his work as an actor to be the problem but the make up seems a bit much

LOL- He looks embalmed! Peter Graves was handsome at one time. In his later years he looked totally mummified.

Ray Liotta's acting was excellent in Corrina Corrina (1994) when he has a romance with Whoppi Dogdoo.

He used to be striking when he was younger

That man has no lips!

Should have had only the laser work and no botox. I wonder how a touch of collagen for the lips would be. He's done his share of great work. Anyone remember "Dominic and Eugene" with Tom Hulce?

Ray's dermatologist at r61. Please no more injections anywhere. His face looks like its made of play doh.

[QUOTE]I wonder how a touch of collagen for the lips would be.

😂 You want this motherfucker to get more surgery?

Just a smidge?

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a waxwork.

I’d rather have no lips than those Botox duck lips.

I tell ya I haven't been this freaked out by a commercial spokesperson since that oversized Burger King head puppet. Still scares the shit out of me.

A photo of Ray in his carefree youth...

R61 I love "Dominic and Eugene"!

Watching him now in “Narc” back before all the plastic surgery. That role was made for him.

He looks like matt Damon a decade from now.

A paycheck is a paycheck

When I saw the commercial, I had no idea who that face was until he spoke. Then I knew who it was and felt profound misery...

He looks better in Blow when they age him 25 years to play Depp’s father.

....I thought he had black mascara or eyeliner on in the commercial maybe some powder. It was a bit much...but his hair was perfect!

R37, forget the eyes, what happened to his mouth?

The inspiration for his new look.

You bitches.

Chantix has always had some of the strangest commercials. For them to think that this makes their product more attractive is typical. Everytime I see the ad, all I do is stare at Ray Liotta.

The guy is in his almost 65 years old, guess he thought all that plastic surgery and Botox make him look younger. The reality is that he's in Wayne Newton territory, and WTF is that on his head?

Combine the above with his slow, marbles-in-mouth delivery, it is not going to sell any Chantix. Once contract is up, he's gone.

Looks like a chin implant, bad eyeliner, and the same work done around the mouth and nose that Shatner got during his Denny Crane years.

he looks like he's transitioning!!

Did he go to Mickey Rourke's plastic surgeon?!

What IS wrong with Ray Liotta?

To much botox and a bad eye lift to start. His face looks creepy now, is he able to close his eyes when he sleeps?

He has those weird creases at the corners of his lips and way too much fullness in his face. Maybe they went to the same surgeon.

Poor Kim Novak. She was such a beauty.

He's drugged out of his mind...on Chantix. Don't get me started on Blythe Danner...

Looks like they heard our cries. The commercial has been completely redone and they stopped airing the old version.

Let's blame it on his adoption the way ugly, unwanted children tend to do.

He was on one of the newer Joel McHale shows doing a skit about being a quilting obsessive and he seemed pretty normal-ish and with it. And his face looked maybe 40% more expressive and less frozen in a rictus of drool.

Ray was like the Colonel reincarnated. Who says he can't smile.

R84. GHASTLY. Looks like half a face transplant, stapled on right over the hold face. Then all the staples covered in spackle.

He’d make a perfect Paul Manafort.

Chantix started the hormonal cascade leading to M2F. The glamazon eyeliner is the beginning. Eyelashes next culminating in breast implants and bottom surgery. I predict that he will change his name to May-Ray-Beline.

Exactly R91. What's especially strange is that some parts of her face actually look really young, while the rest seems puddied together.

Reminds me of a line from Desperate Housewives, where some guy with botched facelift tells the Doug Savant character:

"You may not know it, but I've had work done myself."

Savant: "Are they finished?"

No, they haven't, R87. I just saw it yesterday.

And "warewolf," R73? Really?

They’re going to double-up on these commercials for the next four weeks now. Get ready.

He and Dennis Quaid (another one in a recent commercial) are good examples of attractive men who should've skipped bad cosmetic procedures and aged naturally.

And who is that woman in the commercial with him? I’m bothered that he rubs his hands all over that dog, then crumbles-up some cheese and throws it all over her food, without washing his hands. Shouldn’t someone tell her?

R97, eventually, he’ll get his face back, but it might take him a couple years, maybe three. Add Rupert Everett to the list. It took him maybe 10 years to get a human face again.

R89 Quilting?? Tell me more.

MSNBC plays that Chantix ad 10 times an hour on their streaming site. It's nauseating.

He should have asked JLo for the name of her nip/tuck sculptor, instead of asking Mickey Rourke.

There’s a version of the Chantix ad I’ve seen where he’s randomly looking at a “script”, I guess, and he makes a slow motion claw hand motion over it and it’s so weird and random. I mean.....what? What does that mean? The drug company ads are so strange. I’m assuming 90% of them are the same evil ad agency.

Just a regular guy .......... !

Is he bisexual?

- 105 let's face it, whatever he is, he isn't "practicing". I mean would you, with somebody who sounds like they are losing their marbles and looks like they have lost them? Yes, I'm bitter. Our Ray a was part of my "acne scarred men who have sex appeal" list. He's promoted Tommy Lee Jones and the list only had four people in it (I'm ashamed to mention the other two, even on Datalounge)!

Yes, r96, YouTube is now playing it.

“In movies, I tend to play the [italic] tough guy [/italic] ”.

That’s not the right words for it, whatever it is.

[quote] the rest seems puddied together.

W....... T....... F?

Puddied?

Bad makeup. Looks like a burn victim. HD TV is nobody's friend either.

I am reading this thread and I swear to god the ad JUST came on! Start of Chiefs-Raiders Game.

He also has that slow , deliberate NJ accent

His face doesn't look abnormal to me overall....just looks like they put lots of "foundation" type makeup on for the shoot. His forehead looks immobilized (botox), which gradually will wear off over a few months. What catches my eye as looking odd is something that's just a color combination you don't see everyday....the light blue eyes, darkish eyebrows, and grey hair. I think it's catching people's eyes as looking strange because it's not something you see everyday. But different does not equal "bad". We of all people should know this. Peace.

I think he may have Parkinson's.

he sounds like a drunk queen on opiods: the cure 4 smoking yea

It's gotta be hard for a man, esp. an actor, to deal with rough skin on the face. Even if it doesn't really bother the audience, you must feel self-conscious. It's even worse for a woman (to deal with less than smooth skin).

He talks SO SLOW!

…………...dementia.

It could be Parkinson's or some other neurological disease.

I always make fun of how slow he talks and how the activity in the commercial is sooo staged and fake.

He suffering from early-stage Tony Curtisitis.

Yeah, he sounds like he might have the early stages of Parkinson's?? Why does he talk so slowly? Or maybe that's how he always talked and nobody knew because we only saw him acting? His face is -- sort of normal for a 60-something actor who had really bad acne. The really small eyes are probably a result of cheek implants or a something (plus aging eyelids). Aging is a bitch. But it's surprising that Chantix would want a spokesperson who sounds like he's retarded. On the other hand, here's a whole thread about him, so we noticed didn't we. Just wouldn't exactly make you want to use the product. I wonder if that's his real house and real wife (and real dog) in the ad.

He looked so weird on the Joel McHale show like a small chubby lesbian. So freaking weird!

The current commercial is a big improvement from the first one. I think it is very compelling, once you've gotten past the shock of what he looks like now. I believe what he is saying.

He’s slowwwwww

Liotta still looking fuckable in '07. It's astounding the havoc 10 years and shitty, ill advised cosmetic work can wreak.

Having Parkinson's myself, I note his slow speech, "frozen" face, and the right hand when he is holding the script.

He talks like he’s retarded in those commercials. It’s hilarious!

opiates....

I prefer this version of the Chantix commercial:

Like if