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A latex mask just wasnt going to cut it.
And we then take all of this data that weve created, right?
Or to de-age or provide digital face-lifts for other performers.
Or for Chris Evans to starve himself to play a 98-pound weakling inCaptain America: The Winter Soldier.
And the doubles provide certain guarantees that the show can go on, even when the movies stars cant.
But if youre making a $200 million production?
They can write it off as part of the insurance policy.
You know youre going to be doing digital scanning to double-check youre covered.
They took me into a room.
They scanned my face.
Then they asked me to smile, to frown, shetold Vulture.
I just didnt know how they were going to use it.
Im scanned intoStar Warsnow, my face and body, he said.
Hes been dead for fifteen years but we can do whatever we want with him.
By the end of the recording, the rights to these moves would go to them.
I was thinking: Ive been training my entire life.
And we martial artists could only grow older.
Yet they could own [my moves] as an intellectual property forever.
So I said I couldnt do that.
They may not be looking as pristine as they are when theyre being filmed.
And theyre worried about the material getting out.
Its a bit of an ego-stroking exercise.
We will always [digitally] scan all the lead actors in the film, Morris said.
We dont know if were going to need them.
We dont intentionally scan them as an archive process.
Its for reference later.
All the actors, Morris said.
If we brought back John Wayne to makeBrokeback Mountain 2, would that cause fury?
Is that ethical to do?
And when youd see that, you would know its not real.
What makes Josh Brolin as Thanos so amazing is Joshs performance.
If Im playing Thanos, its nothing as exciting, let me tell you.
No ones going to go and pay money to see that … right?
