It is a cinematic irony almost too perfect to script. When audiences first swooned over the rugged, denim-clad hitchhiker in Thelma & Louise back in 1991, few could have predicted that the very same man would, decades later, embody the reverse-ageing phenomenon of his own character, Benjamin Button.
Yet, here we are. As Hollywood's enduring leading man approaches his 62nd birthday, he appears to have located the fountain of youth, leaving fans and critics alike questioning reality.
