When you look at this week’s Best Actor and Actress winners, what’s the one thing you notice?
(Apart from, you know, the fact one has had sexual harassment allegations levelled at them and the other, well, hasn’t.)
“Their ages!” I hear you say. And you’d be right. Oscar-winning actress and star of La La Land, Emma Stone, is just 28. Manchester by the Sea star Affleck is 41.
Without the wisdom of context and an army of statistics, that fact would be fairly unremarkable. The age gap isn’t significant to warrant headlines on its own, and perhaps it just took Affleck a little longer to find his stride in the industry and emerge from a shadow cast so heavily from his older brother, Ben.
