Tom Hardy’s well-worn face shows life experience – let’s not be afraid to get old
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PEERING through hordes of Christmas shoppers yesterday, I spotted the rugged face of actor Tom Hardy. Alas, not in real life. It was the moody, black and white advert for perfume brand Jo Malone. The snap crops in on the 47-year-old, showing rows of deep frown lines and crow’s feet around his eyes.
![[The handsome and rugged Tom Hardy in a perfume brand Jo Malone]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/05d2b682-e79b-4b80-97cc-c299326d1500.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
My immediate thought was that his weathered mug looked very handsome indeed. And how wise he must be with all that furrowed forehead. What a deep thinker. But then it struck me — I looked for his female equivalent on any billboard or poster in the shops and realised there isn’t one.
![[Every female celebrity promoting a mascara or pair of trainers is porcelain-skinned with a forehead like a hard-boiled egg - where are the equals to broody, scholar-like Hardy?]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/last-dance-uk-premiere-bfi-943417872.jpg?strip=all&w=638)
Every female celebrity promoting a mascara or pair of trainers is porcelain-skinned with a forehead like a hard-boiled egg. Where, oh where are the equals to broody, scholar-like Hardy?. There are plenty of women working in Hollywood who are older than him, yet few of them have a crinkle or wrinkle on their face.
![[EastEnders celebrating Christmas dinner in 1986]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/pat-years-scene-den-seen-279951.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Not a single frown line appears on Nicole Kidman, 57, Jennifer Lopez, 55, Demi Moore, 62, or Jennifer Aniston, 55. Closer to home, our own stars like Amanda Holden, 53, Kate Beckinsale, 51, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, 55, have the complexions of freshly filled balloons.
![[Dirty Den gave the gift of divorce papers and growled: 'Happy Christmas, Ange']](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/913078f9-9838-49b9-bf88-fd1d879c6b0a.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Even Queen Olivia Colman, 50, admitted having “loads of Botox”. All of these are extremely talented, clever, well-travelled women with decades of life experience. Yet their biggest fear seems to be showing any of that on their face. And while it’s always great to see women aged over 50 working on both the big and small screen, the question arises: What do older women even look like now?.
![[Forty-four per cent of parents don’t know how to set up controls on kids’ phones, yet 1 in 10 plan to give their child a phone on Christmas Day, with 64% of them under 14]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/f8052193-8ae2-4e94-b411-68b66d02bd73.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
