Why Do Actors And Actresses In Their 20s, Even 30s, Still Look Like Children In Hollywood Now?

Timothee Chalamet looks malnourished, I still don't know what teenage girls and some gays see in him, I could be a fan of his acting, but his looks? Hard pass.

Lauren Bacall was 19 in To Have And Have Not

Bette Davis was 25 in Of Human Bondage

Katherine Hepburn was 25 in Morning Glory

Joan Crawford was 24 in Our Dancing Daughters.

Prior to WWII, teens were considered young adults and styled and carried themselves as such. Most finished school with 8th grade and very few went to college. Protracted adolescence wasn't an option except for the wealthiest classes. Starting with the boom, the cultured classes allowed adolescence to extend to thirty and beyond with easier access to higher education and while in that period, young people felt no real need to take on the look or mores of adulthood. As the boom and now Gen X after them have continued to consider themselves young, despite being in their sixties and seventies, there's more and more worship of youth and youth culture and the visual look of media icons reflects that.

Not enough blue light exposure obviously.

Not just 20 and 30 somethings. Plenty of water and lots of vigorous sex.

lol.

Great post, r2!

Julia Roberts always seemed like an old movie star to me who could play early twenties to early thirties. The Hepburns had that.

Hollywood is full of pedo's so they favour the really young looking ones.

Jessica Chastain looks 45 in real life. She's not a plastic surgery disaster. A lot of the new - old middle aged stars have gone back to face taping and wigs, botox and special skincare for red carpet and award show appearances. But real life they are relaxed, wrinkled, scraggly and a bit too thin.

A little lip filler seems to the only vanity.

Boomers and Gen X-ers refusing to/financially being unable to leave the work force and allow the next generation to progress up the career ladder thus giving opportunity for achieving all the hallmarks of "adulthood" by the time they hit 30 like mom &dad has created a generation in an "extended childhood"; wherein they can't easily do the confidence-building "grown up things" and they kind of don't want to grow up at all because "adulting" seems like a rigged game, and also climate change means the future is bleak, SOOO let me just continue to wear the same styles of clothes that I did in high school 15 years ago and bury my brain in the new Marvel show that I just bought a toy from!

Also: microplastics fucking with hormone levels.

EVERYTHING is about looking super young now.

75 year olds trying to pass for 45.

Madonna trying to convince us she's still 25.

OP is, obviously, using a typewriter.

Otherwise, he would have POSTED PICS.

You saw this trend a little bit in the 1990s, but really got going in the 2000s.