In a mystery dinner theatre show for Murder for Hire last weekend, I played a knock-off of Sean Connery. The audience was almost entirely made up of young adults between the ages of 18 and 35.
As I went around introducing myself, several of the younger people in the crowd pulled their phones out to google "Sean Connery". They hadn't heard of him and had no idea who he was.
"Oh," said one person, "it says here you're a famous actor."
Others had at least heard of and seen a few movies starring Sean Connery. But while they had some vague notion of Sean Connery as James Bond, they knew much more about his more recent films such as "The Rock".
And, much to my dismay, not one of them had even heard of my favourite Sean Connery movie, "The Russia House", based on one of my favourite LeCarre novels of the same name.
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That reminds me of the time when I was 36 years old and was telling some students that I had worked in a McDonalds in 1961. Several of them said, "I wasn't even born then."
I got the same reaction to "Russia House"; they googled it, saw when it was made, and said, "I wasn't even born then."
Oh well. On the other side of the generation gap, I don't have Netflix and I don't binge-watch anything except maybe some back-to-back live sporting events like baseball or curling [typically viewed as sports of interest to old(er) people, I guess].