Just a few days ago my friend Anita posted a photograph of Jodie Foster on a whim.
This was from The Taxi Driver, a 1970s film, the second one in which Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese had paired up. Since I had not seen the film in the seventies, I got a DVD and saw it yesterday. In that film Niro looked like this.
I saw Robert De Niro just a couple of months ago in The Grudge Match. He looked like this in that picture.
And Jodie Foster looks like this in her latest movie Elysium.
See how differently the two stars have aged in four decades?
I suspect some surgery…just guessing. The upshot is that men are allowed to age in Hollywood and still get parts. Women…not so much!
(All in my humble and jaded opinion.)
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Grannymar’s comments comes the nearest to explaining the differences. As I have mentioned elsewhere, I am now wiser after reading all the comments.
I guess at 14 if you are spotted and you have talent…you will clearly get the part and to see how she has staged her life since, money might well have helped to keep her beauty flawless…or maybe not.
I prefer the older man pictorial it gives so much more character…
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It now transpires that she started acting at the age of 3 as a child star!
I just thought I’d mention, for those of you aren’t from America, that she’s been an actress since she was a little girl. She was in commercials first, then kind of a regular on a show called The Courtship of Eddie’s Father and was in a bunch of other movies before this one.
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This post and the comments on it has been a great learning experience for me Mitch. Thanks for your input.
i like deniro’s old face!
i suppose the older i get the more i appreciate faces that look
lived in.
and true… as your commenters state here…
she was very very young when she started in the business.
i remember the courtship of eddie’s father! it was a great show.
i think she might have been 6 or maybe 9. sometimes they’re playing a younger child though they’re a bit older.
she never really had a “baby face” though.
arriving late to this party… i got a kick out of all the comments! LOL.
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I too have enjoyed the comments on this post Tammy. Just shows how the movie business has impacted our lives!
wow! Live and learn, huh Ramana-athan! Except that Michael Jackson didnt live to see 52 🙁
I dare not put up yours or mine in comparison!