Talk:Julia Child/@comment-173.61.33.115-20160326000414/@comment-26404162-20160326133847

They're obviously going for her more iconic "younger" look when she was in her prime so she'd be more recognizable. If they they tried to look like everyone in their current state, then we'd have, say, Muhammad Ali in a wheelchair and a bald Clint Eastwood. This rule of thumb is sometimes broken, with such cases being Stan Lee, but its not uncommon to shave of 15+ years off a certain person.