Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russell are the New Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones

Bridges and Russell are both only slightly younger than Jones.

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Holy crap! Its true (birth years):

Jones: 1946

Bridges: 1949

Russell: 1951

....I guess its just that Jones LOOKS so much older...and, it seems to me...has been disappearing from the screen, much lower pace of roles than he used to do.

I recall Jones cashing in on his craggy prematurely aged looks when he did "Space Cowboys" with Eastwood. It was about four elderly astronauts, but Jones was much younger in age than the other three stars(Eastwood, Garner, Sutherland.)


Meanwhile, Robert Duvall was born in 1931, he is well into his eighties...I was right about HIM starting to move off the screen.

With any luck, an actor will get lots of dad/mentor/authority figure roles when he's over sixty, and the leading roles come along maybe once a decade.

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True. Sean Connery became "THE father figure" from The Untouchables on...Michael Caine is that way now (Connery is retired, Caine is not.) This was Dustin Hoffman's fate, too, though he's er...taking some time off. DeNiro parlayed age into the Meet the Parents series. Pacino did a lot of this father figure roles, then backed off.

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I'm happy to see Bridges mellow into these sorts of character roles, he's always good, always fun, and always welcome. May he be playing old cranks when he's 100!

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Absolutely. A favorite star of mine. His recent Golden Globes speech just sealed the deal. Loving, wacky, upbeat. And he's been married to the same woman all his adult life. (I salute that even as I understand this cannot be achieved in all marriages, and second/third times can be the charm.)