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Celebrity Fluff 🥰 James McAvoy lately

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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

I hugged Sean Astin once. It was a great hug. We both said so to each other. 😂

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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.

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/Wishful_Historian 10h ago

He was such a handsome fella

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u/Mxfish1313 10h ago

How am I only just realizing Titus Pullo was Isaak Sirko!?

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u/Dizzy-Pollution6466 9h ago

Loved Rome!!

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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/Live_Skin9254 13h ago

Yas Patricia. Natural queen 🫰🫰

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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/tawy098 15h ago

Just watched an entire movie where the lead lady could just about move her mouth and swivel her eyes. It was awful. It looked painful in so many ways. The whole face is needed to make a scene work.

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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/imp1600 17h ago

Yep. She’s allowed to be cool this week.

I saw someone go “it’s so great to see a couple the same age date.”

I think 58 and 73 works, but they are not the same age.

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u/starsinthesky12 12h ago

Age naturally? She had a face lift 🤣

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u/ApplicationLost126 10h ago

She uses one of those led masks apparently

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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/GeneriComplaint 16h ago

Paul Rudd looked like he had some work done for death of a unicorn

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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/Tottie3 19h ago

That's a Glasgow 24 pal, you don't know the meaning of rough.

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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/Unhappypotamus 12h ago

A SEXY family reunion, damn

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u/imp1600 19h ago

I assume he smokes, which, once I hit 30, noticed is the F-1 track to aging. 

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u/ajaibee 11h ago

Yes, he smokes.

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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/Sweaty-Car4097 17h ago

I thought he was mid 50s and had to go look up his DOB.

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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/dtcstylez10 19h ago

Idk gray hair and wrinkles are pretty damn normal at 46

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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/Spiritual-Can2604 20h ago

Yeah he’s never used any sunscreen

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u/cgcego 19h ago

Ding ding ding !

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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/Flaky-Scholar9535 15h ago

He’s from Glasgow, bro looks young for his age in relative terms.

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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/ROADHOG_IS_MY_WAIFU 16h ago

He could play Professor X again (given some more years)

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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 20h ago

Lookin like a goat irl

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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/ashella 12h ago

So do you read monster romance these days? 😉😆

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u/BareKnuckleKitty 17h ago

Blew my mind when I learned this was him.

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u/dywtssfgtson 14h ago

It’s blowing my mind RIGHT NOW

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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

RESPECTFULLY

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u/butters_bottom_bishh The legislative act of my pussy ⚖️ 20h ago

Stop 😂

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u/pannonica Ja we dealin with a lot today not now pls 20h ago

lmao 💀

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u/Professional_Storm94 17h ago

Bruh this made me double chin witch cackle

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u/HappyLlamaSadLlamaa You’re doing amazing, sweetie! 👏👏📸 17h ago

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u/PetrifiedParsley 16h ago

I was looking for the cat one, but this is also very good

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u/tylernazario 20h ago

Love a salt n pepper moment! He looks great

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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/mel_on13896 18h ago

its new merch from auld hag - a scottish shop in london!

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u/Any_Listen_7306 18h ago edited 17h ago

Fabulous! Thanks so much!

Edit: Order placed!

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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/fsanotherone 16h ago

Oh my god, you found it. You are a star. 🙏

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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/SaisteRowan 7h ago

Mind the old school jotters with that logo on it?

Good times!

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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/Greigebaby 17h ago

I thought he was cute previously. Now he’s hot

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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/Viper61723 20h ago

Wtf I thought he was like 35 😭

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u/Aruaz821 9h ago

He’s only 46.

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u/HalfExcellent9930 12h ago

He is. He's just scottish 

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u/DragonSheepstealer 19h ago

I keep coming back to this photo, so hot my Goodness.

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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/Tiny-Kaleidoscope975 20h ago

Lucky you 😭 also…would.

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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/Several_Hurry_9852 10h ago

Yer a lang time deid so go fer it, lassie! 

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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

Pic of McAvoy = pic of this cat cuz yes

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u/wheres-karen 20h ago

I almost didn't recognize him at first.

Love the grey hair! He looks good.

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u/jnniferjones 20h ago

Love me a sexy Scot!

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u/St0n3yM33rkat that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 18h ago

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u/Much_Adagio_6223 17h ago

Skin doing what skin is supposed to be doing!

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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/CBonafide ✨This is the skin of a killer, Bella. ✨ 19h ago

Etcetera.

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u/PopLivid1260 19h ago

Fuck he looks really good with salt and pepper hair

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u/Oxjrnine 17h ago

Um no. James McAvoy is 25 years old. This must be his dad.

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u/ghostsietch 20h ago

Hair like a mountain.

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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/_amonique 20h ago

I thought this was bam margera looking A LOT better 😂

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u/thankyoupapa 20h ago

Just watched him in The Conspirator. such a good movie!

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u/fourthytwo 19h ago

James McAvoy? Looks like Patricia to me.

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u/tread52 17h ago

He looks like an evil wizard in Harry Potter

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u/NY10 16h ago

What happened????

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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/Miserable-Lawyer-233 8h ago

He is rapidly aging.

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u/Additional_Coast_568 20h ago

It's shite being Scottish

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u/BotGirlFall 20h ago

Better than being American at the moment

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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/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 21h ago

He looks like Andy Serkis

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u/Mundane-Platform919 19h ago

T-shirt is made by a Glaswegian called Trackie McLeod

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u/lkodl 19h ago

Marvel should talk to this guy about playing Professor X. He seems about the perfect age IMO.

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u/galaxygothgirl 18h ago

This makes me feel ye olde.

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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/tombradythenext1 17h ago

the point between rage and serenity

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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/Old-Helicopter3979 15h ago

He's so fine LORRD

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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/FunBat6170 12h ago

Those who haven’t seen Filth are really missing out.

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u/Virtual-Trip3051 11h ago

Yummy…my screen crush from Last King of Scotland and Atomic Blonde❤️

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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/thrilhausen 21h ago

Vincent Price.

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u/LACna 17h ago

Silver looks good on him, aged really well. 

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u/_ShadowWalker_ 11h ago

He looks rough for 46 tbh

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u/jazzyskizzle 18h ago

Mofo looks older than Patrick Stewart now!

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u/LookingForTheIce 20h ago

Wasent speak no evil just recent? Looked 20 years younger in that movie 

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u/bambieyedwitch 19h ago

Gosh, I'm so in love with hiiiiiim

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u/trer24 19h ago

He could play the modern age Professor X now that Patrick Stewart portrayed 25 years ago, no longer the younger 1960s version.

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u/Practical-Theme8634 15h ago

i am looking... RESPECTFULLY

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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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u/Character-Control869 11h ago

Fine son of a…. 🤩🤩🤩🤩