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I mean, to be fair, I'm 10 years older than Connery in that picture, and he still looks older than me. Dude was born old.
He was born in 1930. Not exactly a great time to be an Englishman.
Sean Connery has never had a great time as an Englishman, given he is a Scotsman.
That's my Geordie mom slipping out. You know how limeys get
Wait, why? The war was over when he was a teen. He enjoyed decades of progressive social reform
Britain still felt the effects of rationing for years and years after the end of WWII
UK also swallowed a whole 1/4 of the Marshall Plan funds to rebuild Europe.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1227834/distribution-marshall-plan-by-country/
They were fine.
Their still do.
That joke completely disregards any good British food and largely ignores Anglo-Indian cuisine.
Between bombings, rationing, and the general pollution of the UK, it's a wonder he lived as long as he did.
Rationing really wasn't that bad, they had ample bread, beer, and honey. Yes some other things weren't available, but people weren't wasting away in the streets, they'd just use egg powder instead of eggs.
The bombings of major cities were bad, but as a kid he was likely carted off to the countryside, and as a Scottish kid living on the outskirts of Edinburgh, unless he lived in Peterhead or Aberdeen during the Blitz, but as a kid who lived around Edinburgh, he was probably fine.
As for general pollution, I think you're either mixing up Victorian-era UK, or current UK's toxic dumping scandal. The points in between there were pretty bad if you lived in London, sure. Anywhere else though...? UK's got lots of countryside.
My grandpa was his age growing up in Newcastle and he had his school bombed and went into a bomb shelter in the back garden once a week. Only the rich kids were sent out to the country side.
I feel like I've been lied to by Goodnight, Mr Tom. I thought there was a nationwide effort to send kids away. Of the shelter photos ive seen of people sleeping in the Tube, they're always devoid of kids
And the other dude has a baby face, but looking closely I can see that he's older.
Half the difference here is the fact that modern actors have a better skincare routine. Connery probably smoked, too.
The other dude is pretty damn good in The Artful Dodger, by the way. He's playing close to his actual age (deported to Australia, became a skilled ship's surgeon but still uneducated) but still looks like we imagine the little cutpurse, it's a winning combination.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artful_Dodger_(2023_TV_series)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brodie-Sangster
I'm 20-years older and that's about how my wrinkles are ATM.
This looks like a ventriloquist promo poster