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35 is an exaggeration but Tom Cruise in the new Top Gun, and Brad Pitt in Bullet Train, look closer to 35 than to 60 or 58. Cruise taped a "thanks to coming to

35 is an exaggeration but Tom Cruise in the new Top Gun, and Brad Pitt in Bullet Train, look closer to 35 than to 60 or 58. Cruise taped a "thanks to coming to the theaters" thing that ran before Top Gun when I saw it, and it definitely looked about a decade older. Call it 50, while his character looked 40, and he's actually 60. I found it useful to calibrate my guess around how much was due to makeup and movie magic, and how much due to skincare and surgery.

brandall10 4y ago
They look good for their age but it's not shocking they're pushing 60, at best I might accept late 40s. Very much Cruise in Maverick and even thought that about Brad on a recent viewing of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood which he filmed at 54.
anitil 4y ago
He was in ridiculous shape for Top Gun, I could hardly believe it. I should add my favourite detail about the movie - during and after any pilots perform a manoeuvre, listen to their breathing.
eatonphil 4y ago
> Cruise taped a "thanks to coming to the theaters" thing that ran before Top Gun when I saw it, and it definitely looked about a decade older. Yeah I noticed this too. His speech was slower and forced (it seemed like he was having trouble breathing). The skin around his neck was tight in a way that you only see in more elderly folks. The movie was nothing like this but in that tape it was just completely obvious he was a 60 year old dude. Nothing wrong with that of course you just don't normally see him looking like that and didn't even in the movie itself.
- brandall10 4y ago
  Hey to be fair that movie was filmed some 4 years back.
eternalban 4y ago
This is Brad Pitt at 32: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/mediaviewer/rm3781499904?ref_=nmmi_mi_all_sf_308 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/mediaviewer/rm3781499904... Both of these guys look very much like youthful middle aged men.

brandall10 4y ago

They look good for their age but it's not shocking they're pushing 60, at best I might accept late 40s. Very much Cruise in Maverick and even thought that about Brad on a recent viewing of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood which he filmed at 54.

anitil 4y ago

He was in ridiculous shape for Top Gun, I could hardly believe it. I should add my favourite detail about the movie - during and after any pilots perform a manoeuvre, listen to their breathing.

eatonphil 4y ago

> Cruise taped a "thanks to coming to the theaters" thing that ran before Top Gun when I saw it, and it definitely looked about a decade older. Yeah I noticed this too. His speech was slower and forced (it seemed like he was having trouble breathing). The skin around his neck was tight in a way that you only see in more elderly folks. The movie was nothing like this but in that tape it was just completely obvious he was a 60 year old dude. Nothing wrong with that of course you just don't normally see him looking like that and didn't even in the movie itself.

brandall10 4y ago
Hey to be fair that movie was filmed some 4 years back.

eternalban 4y ago

This is Brad Pitt at 32: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/mediaviewer/rm3781499904?ref_=nmmi_mi_all_sf_308 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/mediaviewer/rm3781499904... Both of these guys look very much like youthful middle aged men.