Forget the Avengers 4 title or even the trailer – the most hyped upcoming release on the internet is the video for Ariana Grande’s post-breakup anthem ‘thank u, next’.
The clip will feature Grande paying homage to four iconic movies: Bring It On, Legally Blonde, Mean Girls, and the movie Australians know as Suddenly 30 (called 13 Going on 30 in the US, which makes about as much sense as pronouncing “caramel” like the name “Carmel”.)
This morning Grande was sharing photos from the set of the Mean Girls portion of the shoot – and so was Jonathan Bennett, AKA Aaron Samuels, whose perfect eyebrows set hearts aflutter and math grades nosediving in the original movie.
Bennett was 23 when Mean Girls came out and is 37 now. I don’t know about you, but this does not look like a 37-year-old man to me.
He may not have had Paul Rudd’s post-romcom-dreamboat career – that’s his current project he’s promoting, a Mean Girls-related parody cookbook called, um, The Burn Cookbook – but he’s certainly got the skincare regimen.
Dorky 2004 hair aside, compare and contrast:
LOS ANGELES – APRIL 19: Cast members Jonathan Bennett and Lindsay Lohan pose at the after-party for Paramount’s “Mean Girls” at the Cinerama Dome Theater on April 19, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Either that, or being a romcom dreamboat in your early 20s is just better than Botox at stopping the ageing process.