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celebrities who have become more attractive with age
...or the Gary Barlow phenomenon.
Who do you think? Please show your workings/reasonings.
Gillian Anderson.
She never did it for me in The X Files, but 20 years later in Hannibal, she is incredibly sexy and good looking.
Elizabeth Shue.
Jennifer in Back to the Future parts 2&3 - she looked a bit of an 80s fashion victim, nothing remarkable. I've since seen her in recent episodes of CSI and like Anderson, she is now hot!
Any more for any more?
Who do you think? Please show your workings/reasonings.
Gillian Anderson.
She never did it for me in The X Files, but 20 years later in Hannibal, she is incredibly sexy and good looking.
Elizabeth Shue.
Jennifer in Back to the Future parts 2&3 - she looked a bit of an 80s fashion victim, nothing remarkable. I've since seen her in recent episodes of CSI and like Anderson, she is now hot!
Any more for any more?
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Phwoar!!
So everyone knows who you're talking about. Not much point in saying 'the woman who works in the Newsagents on the high street'.
She's really let herself go.
Why not? Do we have to know who you're talking about?
Agreed!
Well yes.
And 20 year olds, say, are not fully mature so anyway.
Vera Farmiga, as an example. Born, 1973. Very attractive in "up in the air". As was Clooney.
Its not so much 'remaining attractive' - I'm talking about people who improve with age.
And Vera Farmiga - I agree, smoking hot in Bates Motel!
I wasn't disagreeing at all. When I say remain attractive, I meant become more attractive. Pretty much everyone , I imagine
It kind of helps in terms of a discussion with strangers don't you think?
My choice would be Jennifer Connelly - gorgeous.
My wife would like to nominate Martin Kemp.
What discussion though? All that's happening is people listing names. Even then, how many of those listed are nominated based on their on screen image with, say, complimentary make up, lighting, clothes etc. We don't always know what they look like in real life.
If the thread was extended to non-celebrity people, whilst we may not know who they are or have a point of reference, there could be discussion, for example, about how they have managed to become more attractive as they have got older.
The point of reference is pretty important, whether you consider the thread content an actual discussion or not. In the context of the thread, it doesn't work on a basic level unless other contributors are able to form their own opinion by being able to have a look themselves, or know who is being talked about.
Jodie Foster, Sandra Bullock and Helen Hunt all are still lookers but they would sell their spleens to look as good as they did at 33.
Roger Moore - a bit too smarmy looking in his youth.
Imo
The point of reference is important, but it's often a false point of reference for the reasons given above (make up etc). Even without a point of reference, reading people's anecdotal or fist hand accounts of how they have managed to become more attractive as they aged can be more insightful than a list of celebrities, specially when we often only see them a complimentary, and therefore not entirely true, light.
We're unlikely to be very interested if you tell us about your Auntie Hilda.