60 Is the New 30: The Revealing Ranking of Biggest Movie Stars
The Town with Matthew Belloni
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Will Smith and Johnny's Epic
Has it always been this way? Have people's favorite actors always been old? Like Robert Redford and Paul Newman and Jack Nicholson, has it always just been people in their 50s? This is the first time we've asked this question in this study. I'm obviously very skeptical. If you look back at the box office in the 90s, who is in the top 20 movies of, you know, of the year in 1995 or whatever? You're going to have mostly younger actors like would Will Smith and Tom Cruise have been top 10 if this was done in 1997? Oh, absolutely. That's the real shocker here is that none of these actors in their 20s resonate
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