See Chris Pine’s Wild Hair Evolution: From Buzzcuts to Bobs

Chris Pine’s hair transformations will provide you with whiplash.

Over the previous couple of years, the 43-year-old actor’s appears have run the gamut from clean-shaven and polished to lengthy and scruffy — a few of which have incited web frenzy. This week, he debuted his longest — and blondest — hair but on the premiere of Poolman in Los Angeles.

Pine first started experimenting with longer hair on the March 2022 premiere of his movie All of the Previous Knives. On the purple carpet, the star sported lengthy hair and a bushy beard, a departure from his common clean-shaven face and quick hair.

“I suppose it is like, equal elements laziness and equal elements one thing I could do sooner or later right here,” Pine advised Leisure Tonight of his new type. “If there’s any excuse to not shave and have make-up placed on, I, …”

When the outlet requested if his shaggier look was for an upcoming position, he replied, “Perhaps. It is largely laziness.”

On the Venice Movie Competition in September 2022, Pine set the web ablaze with a blonde bob. The longer type grazed his shoulders and confirmed off his salt-and-pepper roots. The star appeared dapper in a brown go well with jacket, cream-colored pants, a brown bow tie and brown loafers. 

Pine’s lengthy blonde hair wasn’t the one factor followers have been buzzing about. The actor got here underneath hearth when, in a viral clip, it appeared that his Don’t Fear Darling costar Harry Types spit on Pine as he took a seat subsequent to him on the premiere. Pine later denied the declare by way of a press release from his rep.

“It is a ridiculous story — a whole fabrication and the results of an odd on-line phantasm that’s clearly deceiving and permits for silly hypothesis,” mentioned the rep.

“Simply to be clear, Harry Types did not spit on Chris Pine,” the assertion continued. “There may be nothing however respect between these two males and any suggestion in any other case is a blatant try and create drama that merely doesn’t exist.”

A month later, Pine modified up his coiffure once more with a dramatic quick minimize. He debuted the take a look at the October 2022 Kids’s Hospital Los Angeles Gala alongside his father Robert. The quick, well-groomed type embraced his grays and Pine additionally grew a salt-and-pepper beard.

In a video for Esquire launched in March 2023, the Star Trek actor shared the rationale he determined to make the chop. 

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“I assumed I used to be trying fairly, fairly fly, the hair was lengthy, every part was occurring, and my publicist mentioned I appeared like Rachel from Pals,” Pine mentioned.

“I could not unhear it,” he added.

Within the months since his dramatic buzz, Pine has been letting his locks develop but once more and has been noticed in varied phases of grow-out, however shocked followers on the April 24 Los Angeles premiere of his movie Poolman, the place he arrived with lengthy blonde hair that went previous his shoulders. He additionally sported a shaggy grey beard.

Seeing as later that night he later appeared on the occasion with shorter hair, it appears seemingly that Pine was sporting a wig — maybe an homage to his Poolman character, who sports activities the same type.