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Lee and Chen’s script is naturalistic — i.e., most of Long’s back story goes unsaid and exists simply in the wrinkles in Nghia’s face — but flashbacks give us glimpses of his years in a prisoner-of-war camp.

“Children who are 10 years old, 12 years old, shouldn’t have to worry about wrinkles,” Lee said in an interview with The Times.

Audiences have grown up with Bridget, aging alongside her and hitting the same benchmarks in marriage, children, death, hangovers and wrinkles.

That’s an effort to smooth out another wrinkle caused by the disconnect between state and federal law, Schmidt said.

She wears no makeup, makes no attempts to hide her wrinkles, and the sight of her is assumed to be so repellant that her naked body is both jump scare and punchline.