We jest, but then as a man whose face never seems to age, there is something poignant to the news that Tom Cruise is now tipped to appear in a reboot of the sci-fi classic as the near immortal Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez, the exotically named character once played by Sean Connery - strangely, he still sounded Scottish but such was his acting chutzpah, he got away with it.
And who knows, perhaps he might start to age like a regular human being.
