Justin Timberlake has talked to STV about new movie In Time, a sci-fi thriller in which ageing can be stopped – and it seems like the film star himself may be in need of the treatment...
Out this week, In Time is set in a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, affording the rich the opportunity of immortal youth.
You might think chart star and film heartthrob Timberlake was still spritely at the age of 30, but seemingly not, as he explained to STV’s Grant Lauchlan.
Asked if there was an oprtimum time to stop ageing, he said: “Things hurt a lot less at 25, I can tell you that.
“Every year it takes me a little longer to get out of the chair. But I’m okay with ageing, it’s fine.”
So is Timberlake an old man in a young man’s body? He agreed: “Yeah, I think so. I think when you grow up in the business you grow up a little faster.
“But I don’t know, I don’t think that I had to sacrifice anything. I wouldn’t change it, but I have a great family, and I think that’s a lot of probably why I’m not all the way crazy.”
If he had one day left, how’d he like to spend it? With the family might be an obvious suggestion, but he certainly didn’t mind Grant’s suggestion of playing a round at St Andrews.
Justin admitted: “I’ve played St Andrews, it is wonderful.
“Links-style golf is how the game was made, and there’s something about walking St Andrews – there’s a mystique there, there’s like ghosts walking around. There’s definitely a mystique.”
