He looks 52 or older in this. Hell he looked 52 when he was 32. Did he ever mention when and why all
his hair turned gray so early in life?
The ironic thing at the time of this filming is John Candy was the married one with kids and Steve Martin was single until after this was filmed. He never had a kid until he was like 70. He’s mid 70s now chasing around a friggin 4 yr old.
Not sure, but he might have been one of those artist that decide to have kids late because home life zaps creative energy.
Steve Martin wasn't exactly single at the time. He was married too Victoria Tennant not to long before Planes, Trains & Automobiles was released.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Tennant#Personal_life
Genetics. I started going gray in my 20s. Now I am in my late 40s and mostly gray.
shareI've noticed that guys who become gray prematurely usually don't end up bald. Sounds like a good tradeoff to me.
shareYeah. Gray hair can look cool. I'd definitely take it over going bald.
share1 bald=cool
2 real men don't look like teens nor girls
Well, I'm going bald, so I guess I'm getting cooler as the years roll by. That, along with the rest of my deterioration, would definitely prevent anyone from mistaking me for a teen or a girl.
shareYou ARE getting cooler as long as you take it like a man.
Which at the same time is glad he won't be mistaken for anything else. Try this approach, it is beneficial for you and the world: embrace yourself NOW.
The white hair deceived you.
Had Steve dyed his hair you wouldn't say that. Look at his roles in Little Shop of Horros or My Blue Monday and age doesn't even factor in to it
Pure genetics. My mother started going gray at age 30, my father started going gray at age 70. I averaged them out by starting to go gray at 50. Martin just went gray in his twenties, which is unusual, but it's within normal human genetic variability.
In that, he was far luckier than Patrick Stewart, who went bald in his twenties.
Michael Chiklis and the late John MacIntyre also looked much older than their actual ages and were forced to play older characters. In real life, Frank Abagnale took advantage of how much older he looked than his actual age and made a lot of money doing it.
shareThe grey hair is very deceiving
shareA year after this, in the movie Parenthood, he was playing a 35 year old.
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