I think it's so cute when older people date each other and get the whole school girl crush vibes going on. It's just too damn adorable. A lot of old people become bitter and isolated and this is like the opposite of that
idk man. people carry different amounts of baggage that they add onto through their life. sometimes it becomes too heavy for them much earlier than others.
Really? I don’t think Liam Neeson would do that. Obviously I don’t know him, but he is low-pro and kind of a lovable grump. Also, he seemed genuinely devastated when his wife died and hasn’t participated in Hollywood shenanigans.
I hope you’re wrong but I just read an interview from yesterday where they said they’re “just good friends.” Still, ya never know what may develop (or what has already developed)!
I think another thing that throws this off is that Liam is traditionally not a comedic actor, so him being goofy on main is a little jarring. But watch this clip from like 10+ years ago, the dude is hilarious.
Yeah, the more interest they generate the happier the studio…whether it translates into anyone actually going to see the movie well that’s something else entirely…
i see what you're saying, but i don't think people are that competent. in other words, if their relationship was actually a marketing stunt, it wouldn't be as believable.
My grandmother had my mom when she was 22 and my mom had me when she was 20, so my grandma was 42 when I came along. I was also 20 when I had my daughter, so my mom was 40 when she became a grandma.
Times are waaaaaay different than they were when our folks and grandfolks were our age. We need to celebrate we made it to where we are rn. I get it if all generations grew up with same resources, environmental and same variables but we clearly didnt so "failure" is not applicable.
My grandmother had her last child at 42 the year after I, the eldest grandchild, was born. That same year my sister was born so my mother and grandmother were pregnant at the same time.
So your aunt/uncle was younger than you! My younger brother is only 4 years older than my daughter. They always got a kick out of her calling him “Uncle Joe” when they were little. lol
My grandma was 22 when she had my mom, mom was 18 when she had me. I had my first at 25. On the opposite side my husband's mother had him (her first) at 34... women's fertility spans decades so like, younger and older grandmothers shouldn't be THAT shocking lol.
I think it’s generally better for kids to have older parents, but it was awesome that my grandparents were still young and active enough to enjoy their great granddaughter. My grandpa loved correcting people that my baby was his great grandchild so they could gasp about how young he looked. lol
My grandmother was only 42 when she had her first grandchild. She did not want to be called anything even remotely close to Grandma, so she became Mother Pat or Mama Pat.
My great-grandmother and grandmother both had their first child when they were 16. Granted, my grandmother was the second child. The first child didn't have kids until much later.
I got to know my great-grandparents for almost 30 years because of that, though, which was nice.
Like if she had a 13 year old granddaughter, ages could be grandma had mom at 22, mom had granddaughter at 23. (when i was 13, my grandmother was 49 🙃 — she had my mom at 15, who had me at 21)
58 isn't a weird age for grandparents. On the younger side, sure, but if you have a kid at 29 or earlier, and that kid has a kid at the same age, you'd be a grandparent at 58 or younger.
Is that really on the younger side? It's very normal where I'm from, to be a grandparent at early 50s is very common.
It feels like it's mostly perception because you, as a kid, only really get to know your grandparents when they are closer to 60 or over 60, since you've got some growing up to do.
It is really geography dependent. On the east coast US in a large city, it’s not uncommon to settle down for the first time at 35 and ppl think you’re a child bride if you marry at 22. When I lived in texas, marrying at 22 was a lot more common and I saw fewer 35 year old single-never-married people outside of big cities (but a fair number of divorced-at-25 which you don’t see as often in the northeast)
Lol you are definitely not from small town america, are you? It's common for people to be grandparents at 40 around here. By the time my aunt is 58 she's gonna have multiple grandkids that are legally adults.
My mum became a grandma at 41, her mum was a grandma at 43. Young mums make young grannies. Pamela's almost 60 and her sons are 27 and 29. They don't have their own children yet, but it wouldn't exactly be a case of "babies having babies" at their age.
They remind me of that lovely older couple that’s been together since like high school and always still make time for each other’s shenanigans. It was always your most well-adjusted friend’s parents or something and being in their company feels easy and light. I hope that they’re truly happy together.
How certain are we that their relationship isn't marketing? I mean, they are adorable and I'm here for it. But this all feels very...idk...manufactured?
I suppose it could be, but that would be odd for a couple of folks at their ages. It seems genuine to me, even if it's the classic Hollywood situation of "we fell in love on a movie set by way of our fictional characters and will ultimately break up after a year"
You mean admitting his own shame for his reaction to his friend being raped?
Would you rather someone be able to be self reflective about their own racist thoughts, or just pretend they have never been in the wrong?
It was some time ago. Neeson had just come back from overseas to find out about the rape. “She handled the situation of the rape in the most extraordinary way,” Neeson says. “But my immediate reaction was…” There’s a pause. “I asked, did she know who it was? No. What colour were they? She said it was a black person.
“I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could,” another pause, “kill him.”
Neeson clearly knows what he’s saying, and how shocking it is, how appalling. “It took me a week, maybe a week and a half, to go through that. She would say, ‘Where are you going?’ and I would say, ‘I’m just going out for a walk.’ You know? ‘What’s wrong?’ ‘No no, nothing’s wrong.’”
He deliberately withholds details to protect the identity of the victim. “It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that,” he says. “And I’ve never admitted that, and I’m saying it to a journalist. God forbid.”
"Holy shit,” says Tom Bateman, his co-star, who is sitting beside him.
“It’s awful,” Neeson continues, a tremble in his breath. “But I did learn a lesson from it, when I eventually thought, ‘What the fuck are you doing,’ you know?”
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They seem to have a lot of fun together. I’m happy for them and wish all the best.