Actors you had a crush on in the past who lost their looks big time

Mel Gibson

Kurt Russell

Alec Baldwin

Brendan Fraser

Jan-Michael Vincent.

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Jan-Michael Vincent. Johnny Depp! Robert Downey Jr. Brendan Fraser. Benoit Magimel. John Travolta.

James Spader

Johnny Depp used to turn me on but it was the sock in his pants. I think Fred Dyer was my teenage lust object.

Michael Biehn

Theda Bara was a handsome guy and then what?

Val Kilmer.

Brendan Fraser.

Brendan Fraser. He was so hot in The Mummy.

Russell Crowe

Richard Greico

Tommy Lee Jones

Devon Sawa

Noah Wyle : (

Antonio Sabàto, Jr - although he wasn't much of an actor, I suppose

Mickey Rourke

Bruce Jenner

Sasha Mitchell

Rick Schroder

Kirk Douglas

Christopher Atkins

Lorenzo Lamas

Steve Guttenberg

Alain Delon

Kermit the Frog.

Mel Gibson. So sexy in Mad Max. Looks like shit now. Robert Downey Jr. Looks his age.

Russell Crowe.

John Travolta went from young and ugly to old and much uglier.

Paul Mercurio from "Strictly Ballroom." So stunning in that movie but his looks faded quickly. Even in "Exit To Eden" I thought he was puffy looking. Maybe it's an Aussie thing to lose your looks earlier than most (many Australian men mentioned already.)

Elijah Wood.

Mick Jagger, known less for his film roles than his music, but still an actor.

Same OP!! And r32 also, wow, that was hard to see. Years ago when I went to Australia so many men looked mediocre. I figured they exported the rare handsome ones they had.

R32 - I was always amazed at how quickly Mercurio lots his looks and became puffy and bloated - till I met a guy...

He too had been a young dancer at the Sydney Dance Company - around the time of Mercurio or soon after - and the framed photos he had of himself from that time on the wall were amazing! Soooooo cute and hot and tight- bodied!

But when he was like that - he was full of young man hormones - and was effectively exercising 8-10 hours a day, five or six days a week. After his mid twenties - he left the company - started his own dance school interstate. And stopped exercising at that level. But he still ate as if he was working out 8-10 hours a day. With inevitable results. And it just got worse as the years went by, hard to believe it was the same guy.

Seen this happen with young Olympians and other professional athletes. when all the exercise stops -their appetites don't necessarily follow. Swimmers especially! (Cough - Ian Thorpe - cough!)

It's almost a form of abuse to train these young athletes and dancers and not include a post career plan that talks about changes to their metabolism, Etc. Lack of responsibility from the higher ups in charge!

Kevin zegers

I've never heard of Paul Mercurio before, but holy fuck. Why does life have to be so cruel? He was stunning when young. Now he's a fat slob. (Christopher Schwarzenegger, I'm looking at you.)

I liked looking at Noah Wyle in The Red Line this year, r17.

Richard Gere

Leif Garrett

Every man over 40 yo has lost his looks according to DL.

Elizabeth Taylor

Wil Wheaton

I think Alain Delon kept his looks longer than most.

Charlie Sheen

Chad Michael Murray

the older we get the more our looks are lost

Nick Nolte

Cary E has been looking better lately.

Young Johh Travolta wasn't handsome enough for you R31?

But, R44 then he lost them BIG time.

r50 A movie critic described young John Travolta as "the handsomest inhabitant of the Planet of the Apes". I agree with that statement.

J Trevor Edmond, a C List actor in horror movies in the late 80s/early 90s.

And him more recently.

Leo D. By the time of The Beach, he went from beautiful to ugly.

Ed Asner

Brad pitt

Edward Furlong.

Rupert Everett

Mark Singer

I double Rupert Everett. Ouch.

Rupert had some awful plastic surgery

Richard Tyson

I second Leo D. Although I'd say he was still very good-looking in The Beach. What made him so unattractive in that movie were his mannerisms and facial expressions. It's almost like he was trying to make himself appear ugly. He REALLY lost his looks between The Aviator and The Departed. Due to heavy drinking and smoking I guess.

[quote] Maybe it's an Aussie thing to lose your looks earlier than most

It's probably all that sun they're exposed to down under. I noticed that Chris Hemsworth is already starting to look somewhat leathery. I still find him good-looking, but I wouldn't have thought that he's only 35. He seems to spend a lot of time at Australian beaches.

Bradley Cooper

Cooper us in the "bad plastic surgery" club along with Rupert Everett

[quote]I think Alain Delon kept his looks longer than most.

The ethereal beauty was gone in just a few years. Hard living. He was still attractive, but not the same.

Mel Gibson got the face he deserved

Gerard Butler. He was still somewhat hot when he starred in that Jennifer Aniston movie. His looks rapidly declined after that.

[quote]The ethereal beauty was gone in just a few years

Ethereal beauty usually only lasts a very short time sadly. Until 25 or maybe 30 at best.

R70 unless you’re Matt Bomer

[quote]Matt Bomer

I wish I'd known enough to go and see plays at Carnegie Mellon when he was a student. I live in an adjacent zip code, and try to see all their plays now, but I didn't know then about the drama school. Or didn't care. Maybe that's it.

Rod Taylor. I recognize a face of an alkie when I see one.

Casper Van Dien. I even watched that awful tv show he did with John Barrowman,

Channing Tatum

David Cassidy

Rob Lowe but it took him a while.

Tim Daily held it together for a long time.

But both of them are pretty old now. Although Dylan McDermott was still looking great at 50.

[quote]I wish I'd known enough to go and see plays at Carnegie Mellon when he was a student. I live in an adjacent zip code, and try to see all their plays now, but I didn't know then about the drama school. Or didn't care. Maybe that's it.

Well R72, most people weren't going to see the plays there back then. On one hand the camera makes people beautiful, on the other hand (with Matthew Bomer), he always stood out. He was also exceptionally kind to everyone back then and I think that's part of the reason he still looks great. I think that sort of thing keeps people looking good.

And it doesn't hurt to have a portrait in the attic.

William Petersen He went from beautiful to bloated

Peter Phelps, another Australian actor.

He is now a voluptuous woman? ^^^

R81 looks pretty passable.

Julian Sands. Corey Haim (I know, he's dead). Christopher Atkins. Dermot Mulroney

Joan Fontaine lots her looks within weeks after starting in the business. Very fat in the face. Quick, sad fade.

Zac Efron

Abe Vigoda

I think Robert Downey Jr. looks fine. He looks his age, but he is not unattractive.

Tommy Lee Jones certainly aged, but never entirely lost his appeal for me - which had more to do with his voice and bodily presence. De Niro is somewhat the same.

I always thought Keith Gordon was more beautiful than either female lead in "Dressed to Kill". That didn't last long. Consistently good actor, though.

Gene Shalit.

Sean Astin. I'm same age as him and used to wank to his teenie bopper mag layouts when I was like 15-16. Now I feel kinda bad and awkward admitting that because in retrospect we know that those mags and the boys in them were exploited by a bunch of evil pedophile closet case assholes. But now he looks like a fat, tired plumber and has since his 20s, so at least the evil pedophile closet case assholes lost interest and left him alone.

Edward Furlong

Henry Cavill. His hair and skin always look so dry now.

Viggo Mortensen hasn’t lost his looks. He was just so amazing when he was younger. I’d still smash.

R92 Yes please. Hot damn.

Cary Elwes looked pretty good in the recent Stranger Things.

I barely recognized Elwes. Man he was gorgeous in Princess Bride, I wanked enthusiastically to him when I was 14 or so. He's still great though, love him in ST.

Jeremy Sisto was so incredibly hot.

Cary Elwes recently lost some weight and looks...better. Better, at least, than last 15 years when he got very bloated.

R96 For the longest time I thought he was Australian because he sounds like he has a slight Australian accent, so I was surprised when I learned he was born and raised in America.

In any case, he looks old for 44.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers lost his preternatural beauty, understandably, quite young. He was still hot in his late 20's. But since then he's really wrecked himself.

David Hemmings aged, sure, but he AGED. When seeing his name in the credits in Gladiator, I let out a silent scream upon seeing which character he played. So did my father, actually. We couldn't believe it.

Brendan Fraser is the most tragic.

I did not have a crush on him (not into twinks) but Macauley Culkin looks like the Cryptkeeper.

Age is the enemy

The guy who starred in the Gremlins films. Fapped to his substantial crotch bulge and boy next door face many times. Now he's a washed up middle aged blah with no career. Sad.

C. Thomas Howell, plays a lot of character roles now and is nearly unrecognizable.

Timothy Hutton. So beautiful in Ordinary People. Now anonymous middle aged guy. Lost his looks young, too.

Marc Singer

Jason Beghe

And yes...Alec Baldwin is the ultimate example. So hot and hunky in the 80s. Now he's gotten big and bloated.

Second Gerard Butler and Brendan Fraser. They both had sort of handsome but somewhat rugged he-man looks in their primes. Now they just look rugged. Also David James Elliot (of JAG fame). These alterations of looks with age are strange to me, because, like everyone else on DL, I'm 60 but still get mistaken for 25.....LOL

Alain Delon lost his looks? Guess what, he's 84, bitches, what the hell do you expect? He looks pretty damn good for a guy in the middle of his eigth decade. Could we all be so lucky.

[quote]Jason Beghe

You're right. He used to be good looking, but he started looking awful about 10 years ago.

The opposite of this thread. Cary Grant still had his looks even into his late 50's.

Desi Arnaz, jr.

Literally, r105. I watched SouthLAnd for weeks before I realized that grizzled old cop was C Thomas Howell.

His role in the latest Bosch scene is much the same. He could be a grizzled old prospector from the Gold Rush days now.

C. Tom (I wonder what his friends call him).

[quote] Second Gerard Butler and Brendan Fraser. They both had sort of handsome but somewhat rugged he-man looks in their primes. Now they just look rugged.

Rugged would not be the word I'd use to describe either of them. Brendan was still relatively young when he began morphing into Rodney Dangerfield. Gerard was always more rugged than handsome, so he managed to hold onto his looks up until about seven years ago. Then, aging hit him fast and hard. He looks a good ten years older than his supposed 49 years. I remember reading a review of that movie he did with 50 Cent, and the writer described him as "looking like an angry Shar-Pei."

johnny depp. His last marriage really fucked him over. It seemed like overnight-KAPOW!

Ben Browder -then:

Ben Browder - now:

r117, he was losing his looks way before then

I wish James Spader hadn't let himself get so heavy. I would like to have seen him keep himself up as well as RDJ has. Such a fucking shame.

I thought Cary Elwes looked gorgeous in Stranger Things season 3. Super hot. He has a perfect face.

Ray Liotta. Too many injections, or something!

I think some of you guys don't understand aging. Some of these guys still look fine, just older.

Kevin Zegers? Really? Last time I saw him, he was still incredibly handsome. What is he? Mid 30's by now at the latest? He just doesn't look like a barely legal twink anymore. Why does DL think men are only attractive until 25? That's so sad.

I'm my experience, men can still be attractive well into their 50s and 60s if they take care of themselves.

I thought Leo looked hot in The Departed but it's been a steady decline ever since. Still enjoy him as an actor though.

Joey Lawrence

R127 Looks like a mannequin now

Ben Affleck

Back to the other side of the spectrum:

Timothy Olyphant is only eight years younger than me, but let's theorize that the handsome bastard may have been the other signer on Rudd's Faustian pact.

Olivia Newton-Lez

So what does everyone posting EXPECT to happen as you grow older? It happens to everyone not named Cary Grant and Sean Connery.

By the way, 131 posts and nobody mentioned Shelley Winters?

Cary is far. Billy is still handsome

Julian Sands.

Walter Mercado

Cary elwes is still pretty hot in the new season of stranger things.

R14 Man! Richard Grieco, for sure. WTF happened?

Jodie Foster

JODI has always looked like a kitchen Witch.