This thread needs before / after pics...

They all go out like that. Meg Ryan, Jennifer Grey, Renée Zellweger, etc. You can only do so much with a 50+ year old face.

@Midi-chlorian_Count said:

This thread needs before / after pics...

https://demotix.com/famke-janssen-is-unrecognizable/

I like how the "before" image is from almost 30 years ago.

@MongoLloyd said:

I like how the "before" image is from almost 30 years ago.

Here's one from 2014:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/mediaviewer/rm2270304768/

Quite the change, hopefully it's not a medical issue.

If she did that on purpose, her appearance needed no change but hopefully she's happy with the result

All those promotional images of her are retouched. I can see it.

@MongoLloyd said:

They all go out like that. Meg Ryan, Jennifer Grey, Renée Zellweger, etc. You can only do so much with a 50+ year old face.

Yes, but why do anything at all? Whatever happened to the concept of growing old gracefully? Are all of these people so vain that they can't stand on their own acting merit? Do they think they won't have any fans left? If an actor or actress is genuinely great, I'm not going to care one tiny little bit about whether they still look twenty at age fifty. And that's the thing. They don't look younger or better. They look deformed and not quite human, as if they're playing aliens in a sci-fi pic and they couldn't get the prosthetics off.

They disappoint me hugely. It's not their looks that turn me off. It's their vanity and shallowness of personality.

When studios will still cast older women in films, potentially as leads, that's hard to pass up and they don't want a former hottie who is "growing old gracefully" on the big screen when they're paying them millions. Generally speaking, when women hit "older" age, they can go one of two ways; either gain weight and do comedy, or have work done on their faces to try and squeeze in another few more years of studio roles.

Shame. She was beautiful.

@MongoLloyd said:

They all go out like that. Meg Ryan, Jennifer Grey, Renée Zellweger, etc. You can only do so much with a 50+ year old face.

Not all! Sigourney Weaver, Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, Rene Russo - these are just a few who have hung in there as they are (or, avoided going overboard, did a subtle job here and there that is hardly noticeable or actually looks good).

But, yeah, it's well-known that Hollywood isn't particularly equitable in how it treats aging between men and women - apparently "Hollywood" isn't as woke as it'd like us to believe.

@mechajutaro said:

Yes, but why do anything at all? Whatever happened to the concept of growing old gracefully?

"Regular" women have that option. Not so for actresses, who are in a never-ending competition with the latest batch of sexy young thangs on the market. Unfair for sure; lots of older actresses are, like everyone else in every other profession, often at the peak of their professional prowess in their later years, having gained a great deal of practice and savvy. Sadly, the entreatment racket doesn't take cognizance of such things. For every Julianne Moore, there's a thousand other Kelly McGillis's

You're right, of course, but that's part of what I see as very wrong in Hollywood and in American pop culture. I'd a thousand times prefer to watch an actress who isn't afraid to look her age, like Helen Mirren, than one who feels compelled to chemically or surgically freeze her facial muscles and stretch her skin unbecomingly.

@mechajutaro said:

"Regular" women have that option. Not so for actresses, who are in a never-ending competition with the latest batch of sexy young thangs on the market. Unfair for sure; lots of older actresses are, like everyone else in every other profession, often at the peak of their professional prowess in their later years, having gained a great deal of practice and savvy. Sadly, the entreatment racket doesn't take cognizance of such things. For every Julianne Moore, there's a thousand other Kelly McGillis's

Are you comparing their acting skills or their looks? Both appear to have little or no procedures done.