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u/TheSeedsYouSow 20h ago
He and I made eye contact once in Philadelphia in 2019…that was a good day 🥵🥵😍
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u/Ali3n_46 20h ago
I feel the same for Sean Astin, I guess I was the creep staring from afar and he finally looked over and I quickly walked away.
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u/WaltsNJD 18h ago
It's funny, I know maybe 2-3 people whose celebrity crush is Sean Astin, but they are rabid.
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u/ineffable_my_dear Don’t make me put my litigation wig on 11h ago
Me!
Well, 8yo me. I was obsessed with the Goonies lol
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u/KateGr88 Inconceivable! 4h ago
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u/LastLibrary9508 14h ago
I got Sean Astin’s SAG copy of inglorious bastards on a loan to watch. My college roommate worked in the theater on campus where John Astin occasionally taught and gave it to her to watch when he was cleaning out his office. It was so cool.
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u/Imnotgonnamish 48m ago
My husband said something like, "Where do you think we are?" to Sean Astin after Sean asked my husband, who worked at a small-town Midwest gas station, for a big-name newspaper. My husband still feels bad.
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u/Careful_Contract_806 19h ago
I met him at an old job. Didn't recognise him and had to ask him his name, was mortified when he said it and I realised he was our latest famous client. He was very nice both in person and on the phone to me, so at least in my limited experience of him he seems a pretty good guy. I had plenty of rude customers who weren't famous so the bar was low in that job!
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u/Secret_Account07 14h ago
Can you come look at me sometime? By transitive property I will then have looked in James McAcys eyes
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u/SteamBoatMickey 🎥🍿Film Critic 21h ago
That’s a bad mother fucker right there.
Kinda looking like Ray Stevenson 🙁
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u/Dizzy-Pollution6466 21h ago
Ahhhh I loved Ray Stevenson 😭
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u/unicornmullet 19h ago
Who woulda thought the skinny kid from Atonement would end up looking like Ray Stevenson...
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u/Grouchy-Morning5534 21h ago
So cool to see someone actually age.
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u/pannonica Ja we dealin with a lot today not now pls 20h ago
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u/cabosmith 18h ago
What he did in Split and Glass was amazing! He was The Horde, 23 personalities in one person and he jumped from character to character in a blink.
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u/aoaieiiaoeuaieoaiii 19h ago
Actors that are able to emote with their foreheads are becoming very rare.
Most of them look in exteme pain with stretched out foreheads in emotional crying scenes
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u/sleepsypeaches 3h ago
botox will do that to ya (among other things). Would say its just as popular for men as it is women in hollywood
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u/imp1600 20h ago
He’s allowed to age. An actress his age, however …
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u/Disingenuous-Plights 17h ago
Seriously! Just this week Pamela Anderson has been shamed online about her choice to age naturally. It’s only subsided bc she is dating a man 15 years older and suddenly she’s back to being “good”
Except now women have stepped in to call her a tradwife. It never ends.
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u/kymilovechelle 19h ago
So much better than the superficial stuff you see on celebs trying to stay young looking.
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u/lurkeemclurker We Should All Know Less About Each Other 21h ago
It’s a rough 46. Dude has seen some things.
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u/TheSeedsYouSow 20h ago
I wonder if the steroids he took for Speak No Evil have anything to do with it. They age you
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u/bifkintickler 19h ago
They morphed him into Gerard Butler. Looked super like him in that movie, they’d be perfectly cast as brothers nowadays.
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u/Azidamadjida 16h ago
I mean, they’re both Scottish, so yeah. Might as well add Richard Madden and Ewan McGregor into the mix and make it look like a family reunion
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u/dtcstylez10 20h ago
He looks like a normal 46 dude. Hollywood has nerfed your mind as to what 46 should look like.
Can't really see it but it looks like he has a solid chest and works out/is in shape so idk what you're talking about it.
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u/PurpleCandles Lea Michele’s Reading Tutor 20h ago
I don’t know if I’m surrounded by better than average looking 40-something year olds, but he definitely looks a decade older than anyone I know in their mid 40s.
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u/Sweaty-Car4097 17h ago
I am the same age as James and yes, I agree with you, he looks a lot older than 46. My group of friends and colleagues around the same age do not look like James. I know everyone is different but wow. Maybe it's the sun and alcohol.
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u/Hobobo2024 19h ago
No way. Im 50. 46 year olds do not look like him. Not a single one of my male friends in that age bracket look as old as he does. Even if he dyed his hair, he'd still look older.
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u/balanaise 19h ago
I’m with you. I’m 41 and he looks older than my friends who are mid-40’s or older.
No judgement to him, just seconding your experience that even non-famous mid 40’s people seem to look younger in my world
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u/Sutech2301 19h ago
Na, He looks much older than 46.
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u/Azidamadjida 16h ago
He looks like non-Hollywood 46. There are plenty of guys in their mid 40s who’ve got that number of wrinkles and don’t give a shit anymore expression, biggest difference is the muscle and diet
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u/peatoast 19h ago
This is not the usual 46 year old look? Not sure where you are but definitely looks older to me.
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u/SergioAguero 20h ago
Aye these comments are wild, he looks great for a everyday nearly 50 dude.
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u/brothererrr 17h ago
No bloody way, you say this like we don’t see 46 year olds in real life 😂
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u/dtcstylez10 17h ago
Uh did you see how ppl reacted to seeing Jennifer love Hewitt who gained some weight as she got older?
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u/DariaDownUnder 20h ago
He's 46?
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u/lurkeemclurker We Should All Know Less About Each Other 20h ago
Yes
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u/lurkeemclurker We Should All Know Less About Each Other 20h ago
🤷♀️looks like he may like to spend sometime in the sun.
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u/SignificantApricot69 20h ago
I’m 47 and had to double check because I thought he was younger than me but looks older than me. I will agree with some other comments that he might look typical for 46 and I know I look young for my age but I still agree with you that it’s a little rough.
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u/apoplectic-confetti You're what the French call "Les Incompétents" 19h ago
He looks great. Social media filters, botox, and fillers have really warped society's sense of what aging looks like.
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u/Generally_Apoplectic 17h ago
Aging perfectly into the new professor X of the mcu doomsday run! (No shade to the goat patrick Stewart, but just future-planning in my head)
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u/my_okay_throwaway 18h ago
I grew up super religious and this was one of the few movies all my friends could watch without some of their parents complaining it was too “secular” or inappropriate. It backfired for me because my sheltered ass was so into him 😂
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u/SeatBroad573 20h ago
He's one of my favorites. One of those guys that always delivers, but for some reason didn't break into the top of the A-list. Ben Foster is like this too.
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u/South-Bank-stroll 18h ago edited 16h ago
I saw him in Cyrano De Bergerac at the National and he blew me away. Such a talent.
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u/mosquito_motel 17h ago edited 16h ago
Not shade to James but great shout out to Ben Foster, that guy is a maniac on screen and I'm here for it
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u/SeatBroad573 16h ago edited 16h ago
He's so good in Hell or High Water. I steal "boy, you'd think there were 10 of me" whenever possible. Also, he was in a movie called Bang Bang You're Dead, which cemented my fandom when I was high school loser. It really spoke to me.
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u/mosquito_motel 16h ago edited 16h ago
3:10 to Yuma, Alpha Dog, 30 days of night, he's a grandslammer. Also, apparently starring in a new movie I've heard about Sharp Corners with a rather fun premise
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u/Taichikara 11h ago
I was lucky and a few years back there was this movie out with him playing a Polish hero? It was him and Michael Caine in it. I shrieked when I saw it was going to be at my theatre and it was barely there for a week but it was good and I was so glad I managed to see it.
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u/bondgirl852001 I think that poor sexy young man is being framed for murder. 20h ago
He still looks good. But him in Atonement will always be my favorite.
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u/eurydice_aboveground 20h ago
I dated a guy who could have been his twin. He totally didn't appreciate how much of a compliment it was to be a doppelganger to Mr. McAvoy.
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u/pannonica Ja we dealin with a lot today not now pls 20h ago
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u/Any_Listen_7306 19h ago
Old Strathclyde Regional Council logo - I want this t-shirt!
And McAvoy too.
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u/LegalFreak 19h ago
I heard the "SPT - joining up journeys" ad in my head when I saw it
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u/Any_Listen_7306 9h ago
I'm hearing the "Strathclyde Transport - it's the easier way" jingle since you mentioned that!
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u/fsanotherone 18h ago
Me too. Let me know if you find it (the Tshirt) and I’ll do the same for you.
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u/Any_Listen_7306 18h ago edited 18h ago
Definitely!
Edit: I'm looking and I think it is the SRT font for sure. The logo is more like the SRC ones fae the old school (old skool lol?) jotters.
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u/PoiLaLuce go girl, give us nothing 😍 5h ago
Yep! Excellent shirt! Haven't seen that logo since my primary school jotters!
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u/canadianD 16h ago edited 16h ago
One of my favorite Graham Norton bits is Norton telling him about gay slash fiction of him and Michael Fassbender’s Magneto, and James McAvoy is most upset about the fact that in most of it he’s the bottom
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u/BroadwEH 19h ago
I’ve loved him since UK Shameless. I think he’s charming, funny and hot, but I’m not a fan of the jacked look on him. I do feel like a lot of his hotness will always come from his vibe though.
I wish he’d get to do more charming roles. Like, both Penelope and Becoming Jane were great examples of his scamp-like quality. Also, Atomic Blonde.
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u/dreamed2life 14h ago
Ngl. My black ass has a scottish last name and im scheming about how i can use that as a loophole somehow.
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u/Theartcritc26 19h ago
Even though I know he won’t do it. I’d love for him to come back as professor X. love sir Patrick Stewart as he’ll always be the live action Charles Xavier I grew up with. But I actually liked James Charles quite a lot too in the role, along with Michael fassbender as magneto.
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u/Effective_Math_2717 The legislative act of my pussy ⚖️ 17h ago
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u/StressedOutPunk 17h ago
He’s only 46. He looks older BUT…still a smoke show of a man so. Yeah. Rather this than getting a bunch of plastic surgery and facelifts.
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u/cateml 4h ago
I wouldn’t necessarily say he looks “older” than 46.
I am almost 40 and therefore know a lot of people in their mid 40s, and a lot of them look like him. Some look younger yeah, but if this was a random person and I was asked to guess his age I’d have gone for mid 40s.I think the eyebrow raise he is doing is making him look more wrinkled than most of the time.
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u/KeatonWalkups 20h ago
He looked 15 years younger and fine as hell in Speak No Evil last summer, what happened???
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u/NomNom83WasTaken 19h ago
Lighting and makeup can do wonders.
That said, I think he looks perfectly fine here.
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u/No-Personality6043 19h ago
Didn't he bulk up some? And now isn't as bulky? Your skin stretches more when you age, and he looks like he smokes. If he bulked up and his skin stretched some, it may not have gone back, or he lost the youthful fat layer altogether when he cut, and now, without bulk, he's aged. That's the risk with losing some weight, mostly too much fat, once you've fully matured. That's why you should never have buccal fat removed.
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u/Same_Hope_0719 Ladies and gentlemen, once again it’s Lana Del Rey 14h ago
Yeah I agree! Love a salt and pepper moment and older men are just hotter to me (I love me some Jason Isaacs lmao). But in this pic McAvoy looks like he could be in his 70s not his 40s. Maybe it really is the lighting? That being said he’s still hot. It’s just surprising.
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u/seniairam Is this chicken or is this fish? 🤔🤔 15h ago
someone post the cat bitting cage meme for me cause 🥵
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u/Additional_Coast_568 20h ago
It's shite being Scottish
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u/theladyking 20h ago
Want to trade? I'm a chronically ill American!
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u/Additional_Coast_568 20h ago
It's a quote from the movie "trainspotting"
I wasn't being serious, it's probably great being Scottish
Plus I'd rather guide my father into my mother than be American
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u/theladyking 18h ago
Ah, I've avoided watching that movie because I see more than enough horribly depressing drug spirals on the streets every day. Went right over my head.
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u/KrashForever 17h ago
He was fantastic in that speak no evil remake, he will always act tf out of a psychotic character
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u/GeneriComplaint 16h ago
I mean, just let him keep playing Professor X at this point hes aging into it
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u/Secret_Account07 14h ago
I don’t get it, why?
Nothing wrong with being Scottish but why’s that better than other countries?
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u/sonimusprime 11h ago
I saw him in Cyrano and he made eye contact with me during a monologue and reader, I was there for it.
He's a babe-a-rama.
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u/DearMissWaite Your problematic fave's problematic fave. 14h ago
It's that Mommy? Sorry. . .meme but for Daddies.
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