For a long time, I’ve been trying to formulate my thoughts to describe how there are no movie stars anymore. I’m not alone in this opinion, but when I look at the current state of entertainment, there are practically no people under the age of 30 that I want to watch. Who are the “biggest” stars nowadays? Timothy Chalamet? Olivia Rodrigo? Zendaya? Harry Styles? Anja Taylor Joy? You couldn’t drag me out of bed to see any of these cats on screen or in concert.

There’s a lot to be said about how putting someone on the big screen seems to capture the true essence of who they are as a human being. It’s not a quantifiable metric by any means. You can’t measure their star power. You can’t figure out a rating for that person based upon some formula like LOOKS + SKILL + TALENT = CHARISMA. If a person has charisma, then they’ve just got it.

And charisma, itself, is hard to define. Charisma extends into real life as well. Sometimes, you find someone who attracts attention naturally; who is able to command a room, who is able to draw your gaze, who you are able to listen to without any effort. If you’ve got charisma, then you’ve got it. If you don’t, you don’t. You can’t learn charisma (despite what some might tell you). Some people are born with the gift of gravitas. Some are not. Such is the circle of life.