Similarly a lot of my 2x and 3x great grandparents looked better in their 60s, 70s, and even 80s than their kids and grandkids. Most of them wouldve been born in rural regions around the late 1800s so I suspect you are correct in what made folks age faster.
Beru on the left is 16 (age of the actress, not of the character), Beru on the right is 57.
Age weirdness aside, I never realized how much young Beru looked like older Beru.
Man, some people aged quickly back then.
Saw the same thing watching a show from the early 70s. Most of the actors that were in their 50s looked absolutely wrecked. Like 50 going on 90.
Makes me feel better about myself, though lol.
Guessing it was a combination of smoking, lead exposure, air pollution, and not much sunscreen.
Yeah, true. Grandpa Guinness on the right is just 63 in that picture.
Lets see how we look like in our 60’s with all the microplastics inside us ;)
But it shouldn’t be worse than smoking, lead, smog and missing sunscreen
Similarly a lot of my 2x and 3x great grandparents looked better in their 60s, 70s, and even 80s than their kids and grandkids. Most of them wouldve been born in rural regions around the late 1800s so I suspect you are correct in what made folks age faster.