James Franco was 39 in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs when he played the character 'Cowboy (segment "Near Algodones")'.
That was over 5 years ago in 2018.
Today he is 46, and has starred in 147 movies in total, 6 of those since The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was released.
In The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, I think James Franco looks: