It’s just that by now, we’re used to seeing certain Hollywood romance tropes repeatedly.

There are the young, cute couples who aren’t shy about promoting their blossoming romance on social media; the co-stars who have secret on-set affairs while being probed for adultery; and the old man in his sixties or seventies who is openly romancing a young, gorgeous woman half his age.

We observe these paradigms without questioning them and come to accept them as the standard.

Pierce Brosnan’s professional contemporaries, along with the general public, assumed he would finish dead last in this competition.

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