- Experimenting with your hair is fun for everyone, especially famous people.
- These 12 guys are traditionally known for keeping their hair on the short side – but they briefly tried out the “long hair, don’t care” lifestyle.
- Brad Pitt should probably consider bringing back his bleached blond, shoulder-length locks.
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Traditionally, these 12 men are pretty married to their looks, but over the course of their careers, they’ve tried out some different hair lengths.
Even George Clooney, who’s pretty much looked the same for the past 15 years, experimented with ’80s fashion in the beginning of his career.
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Hugh Jackman normally keeps his hair pretty short, but in the early 2000s he was sporting some luscious locks.
Jackman chose to forego haircuts in 2003 while he was promoting the “X-Men” sequel, but he lopped it off the next year and has had dependably short hair ever since.
Back in 1985, Tom Cruise was on the cusp of releasing "Legend," which he grew his hair out for.
Cruise had only starred in a handful of movies at this point, including "The Outsiders" and "Risky Business." But in 1985, he only appeared in one film: fantasy adventure film "Legend," in which he plays a knight-esque figure.
By the next year, he was playing an Air Force pilot in "Top Gun" and had shorn his long hair.
Over the years, Cruise's hair has ranged from shaggy to buzzed, but it hasn't been this long since.
Not even Ashton Kutcher character Kelso's hair was this long during "That '70s Show."
Kutcher's hairstyle usually evokes the word "bedhead," but this 2011 style was one of the only times it was able to flip up at his shoulders.
He cut his hair soon after while he was vying for the role of "Steve Jobs."
Christian Bale's hair was at an all-time long length in 2011.
Normally, if Bale's hair is on the longer side, it's slicked back a la Patrick Bateman or Bruce Wayne, but for a few months in 2010 and 2011, the actor gave his hair the chance to hang free.
Turns out, he wasn't growing his hair out for a role - in fact, it was the exact opposite.
"In truth, you know what this is? This is unemployment, this is all this is," he told Access Hollywood. "I haven't worked since 'The Fighter,' and it's nice to just not bother cutting your hair. When you're [not] in a job that everything always has to be, you know, worked out for a character, I just sort of let it all hang out, but it's unemployment, that's all it is."
George Clooney rocked a perfectly '80s mullet when he appeared on "The Facts of Life."
It's jarring to see Clooney without, one, his cropped hair, and, two, his signature salt-and-pepper hair color. But all the way back in 1985, he was known for his recurring role in the boarding school-based sitcom "The Facts of Life."
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Joe Jonas sported some seriously feathery hair during his "Camp Rock" days.
He's not the only Jonas brother to have completely changed his style since then - Kevin and Nick are almost unrecognizable, too, from Nick's curly 'fro to Kevin's flat-ironed look.
Brad Pitt has had long hair many times over his career, but he's never went full-on bleach blond surfer since 1994.
Pitt donned this length and color for his movie "Legends of the Fall," in which he played a wild cowboy named Tristan during the late 1800s and early 1910s.
Over the years, Pitt's hair length has ebbed and flowed, but it was never this long, and it was always a little more scraggly. He also has kept it darker.
Ben Barnes had long hair for the first few years of his career, but in his most recent roles in "Westworld" and "The Punisher," it's been short.
It's hard to believe now, but Barnes' first big role was as Prince Caspian in "The Chronicles of Narnia" film series back in 2008. Over the years, his hair became gradually shorter and shorter until it hit the length that it's at today.
David Beckham's beach-blond locks from 2003 will probably give you hair-envy even now.
Beckham's most iconic look is either his shaved head or his pompadour-esque quiff. But over the last few decades, the soccer star has experimented with plenty of other colors and cuts, including this shoulder-length, bleached blond 'do.
It's hard to tell sometimes underneath his helmet, but Tom Brady used to sport some serious flow.
Typically, the star quarterback's hair ranges from buzzed to slightly-longer-than-buzzed, but for a good two years in 2010 and 2011 - roughly three Super Bowl rings ago - Brady was rocking feathery long hair.
Right now, Austin Butler's hair is short and inky black — he's almost unrecognizable from his shoulder-length blond days.
Though it wasn't that long ago that Butler was playing a half-human/half-elf warrior on "The Shannara Chronicles," his current look is so completely opposite that it's hard to remember a time when he wasn't rocking short black hair.
Jake Gyllenhaal grew out shaggy hair and a beard for his movie "Everest" in 2014.
Normally, the "Spider-Man: Far From Home" star rocks expertly coiffed hair and light stubble - a look he's perfected over his two decades in Hollywood - but for a brief moment in 2014, Gyllenhaal went full caveman on us for his role as a mountain climber in "Everest."
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