Spanish actor Javier Bardem is the face of a villain in No Country for Old Men. Which Anton Chigurh would you rather face in a darkened hotel corridor? That’s an easy one.

It’s no secret that Hollywood actresses (and actors) are spending ridiculous amounts of time and money on botox injections to make themselves look younger. In a lovely display of self-fulfilling prophecy, one’s effectively frozen face cannot convincingly emote on the big screen, which is why word on the street is that Botox is killing Hollywood:

Today, most actors in most movies have deliberately paralyzed faces, incapable of registering anything. An ocean of Botox and collagen has been jabbed into the most famous faces on Earth — leaving the audience feeling disconnected without knowing why.

If we zip backwards a few decades, it’s easy to draw a few comparisons of talent that might have been wasted if Botox had existed. Notwithstanding all her other vices, Marilyn Monroe’s “tiny, almost unreadable facial signals” would have been erased by Botox injections. Collagen injections probably would have done the same to Audrey Hepburn.

Naomi Watts has spoken out on her refusal of botox injections: “My face requires me to have expression. If it’s frozen, what right do I have to play that part?”

Naomi’s public stance is of particular note due to her close friendship with Nicole Kidman, who just happens to be Radar magazine’s Botox poster child of the millennium. Kidman has denied any plastic surgery or use of Botox, but since she announced her pregnancy, wrinkles have suddenly materialized on her previously smooth forehead.

Of course, this Botox-bind leaves actresses who are hitting the Hollywood-elderly of 40 in a cruel position. If they refuse to have the face done, they can’t get cast. But if they have the face done, they can’t act. They are trapped by our creepy desire to have any sign of aging banished from our sight lines, even on the cinema screen.

And in that regard, even Hollywood actors and actresses cannot escape what the lowly civilians long ago accepted — getting older sucks. Deal with it.

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