Spoilers Superman Spoiler Thread

[Maxperson]

What is wrong with hillbillies (aka rural folk)?

Nothing. It's just not what the Kents were.

 

[Stalker0]

That said, most of the bits aside from the accent were simply older parents bits - a return to the idea that the Kents were at the upper end of child-rearing age than the significantly younger versions we've had ( even in Lois and Clark ) recently.

people are having children a lot later than they used to. If we assume the Kents were 30 when they got Clark (which again for today's era is not super late to start a family).

Clark is ~30 in the movie based on tweets by James Gunn. So the Kents are 60 years old...yep decently old. Even if you assume they were more like 25, still 55 is old enough to match their look.

 

[Morrus]

still 55 is old enough to match their look.

Jeez. You mean I only have 4 years left until I become officially old?

 

[Kichwas]

Jeez. You mean I only have 4 years left until I become officially old?

What can be fascinating is to look at actors who played "that dude is seriously old" characters in past decades and realize they were often in their 30s or 40s.

At the time I often look at people my age and they can look really old. Yet my friends who are my age don't look so old. And I wonder if we're living better on the coast, or if my perception is warped or not.

That said, the actor playing Jonathan Clark is 65. Martha Clark's actress is 70.

In the 70s or 80s that same visual age would have been played by a 40-50 year old actor.

Red Foxx was 50 when he started playing Fred Sanford and depending on camera angle he'll look very old or you can tell he's only 50. But he also runs around dressed and talking like an old man which helps the effect.