The De-Aging on Michael Douglas was phenomenal for the time... Impressive stuff.
It's very impressive for the time. I'm surprised later Disney de-aging hasn't reached the level of Michael Douglas here.
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Odd-Sound-5802026-01-26 10:27
Nah he can just do that
AmierSingle2026-01-26 10:56
Skadoosh_it2026-01-26 12:05
Banzaikk2026-01-26 13:02
[Sir Ian going through his process](https://youtu.be/m5CX00i4uZE?si=ZEUk-uuqmYfDwi2X)
BloodyEyeGames2026-01-26 15:35
How have I never seen this before, this is gold!
YodaFan4652026-01-26 19:49
If you like that, you'll enjoy [the bloopers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWlqaQqb7Eo). How they ever got through it, I'm sure I don't know.
BloodyEyeGames2026-01-26 20:39
You're right, I did enjoy that!
peon472026-01-26 10:56
It's how he scored Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Brcomic2026-01-26 10:59
That plus another thing…
OarsandRowlocks2026-01-26 11:08
eyebrows3602026-01-26 12:32
I see his aim worsened a lot in old age
SkyGuy1822026-01-26 15:02
He just showed up on set one day thirty years younger.
knightress_oxhide2026-01-26 21:01
Not to hard, not to soft.
Scmods052026-01-26 10:28
His face looks like wax though
cocopopped2026-01-26 10:28
Reading "for the time" then realising this film is now 11 years old... fuck.
It still feels new-ish to me dammit
MBVakalis2026-01-26 11:07
it's what?
ContactSpecial86122026-01-26 11:20
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MBVakalis2026-01-26 11:21
no, can you do it for me?
ContactSpecial86122026-01-26 11:21
Strange person
eyebrows3602026-01-26 12:32
Those are the best ones
eyebrows3602026-01-26 12:31
Ok I read it for you. Anything else you'd like me to do?
Icaruskillswitch2026-01-26 11:46
It's amazing how time is flying. I read the other day its been 18 years since heath ledger passed, blew my mind.
Luci-Noir2026-01-26 17:27
It seems like since Covid it’s sped up even more.
CaptHayfever2026-01-26 21:03
Because a lot of things still feel like they're on pause, because what should've been a 2-3 month ordeal turned into a 6+ year ordeal thanks to a combination of obstinance, greed, & misinformation.
GatorToothNecklace2026-01-26 22:11
Keep in mind that you as an observer are aging. When you're 10, 1 year is 10% of your life. When you're 40, it's only 2.5%. Days feel longer and years feel shorter as you age.
jv3rl0ov2026-01-27 17:58
Especially being someone in your early 20s when it started. The 2020s are just whizzing by for me
MArcherCD2026-01-28 11:03
Hugely
2015 to 2020, and 2020 to 2025, are both chunks of five years each, but the depth and speed of them feels ***VASTLY*** different! I really don't know if it's just me
OliviaElevenDunham2026-01-26 13:36
Same here.
arfelo12026-01-26 14:04
Honestly, I find the "for the time" part funny because there's plenty of high budget movies and shows today that have much much worse de aging and effects than Ant-Man did in 2015.
Look at Kyle MacLachlan in Fallout.
The_Orgin2026-01-26 14:40
Unlike his wife he can't stay young forever.
xMacBethx2026-01-26 16:54
He looks terrible, I wish they would've just cast a young actor. It can't be that hard to make it apparent that it is the same character. There are other characters that were recast and it's obvious who they are.
Neveronlyadream2026-01-27 04:38
Basically everyone that wasn't MacLachlan was just recast for the younger versions.
I think it's that, "We paid to have this actor, so we're using this actor" thing Hollywood loves to do even when it doesn't make sense.
Related, Harrison Ford's de-aging for Dial of Destiny, which is not the worst I've seen, but immediately undermined by Ford's 80 year old voice coming out of his young face.
joshualeeclark2026-01-29 01:39
This. The de-aging was pretty good but his 80 year old voice was messing with the illusion.
There are AI voices even back then that were pretty good. Audio samples from his movies. There are impersonators that are great at Harrison Ford’s voice. I would think they would have used other tools to massage the age out of his voice too.
Neveronlyadream2026-01-29 01:41
Once The Great Circle came out, a lot of people were pissed they didn't get Troy Baker to just do his impression of Ford for those scenes.
I can't believe they watched that back and decided it was good. It's so jarring hearing an 80 year old's voice come out of a 40 year old man's face. For as much money as they pumped into that, it's hilarious that they just went with it.
MurderBox952026-01-26 23:52
jmoney7772026-01-27 06:32
I feel like the amount of time from 2026 to 2015 feels a lot shorter than the amount of time from 2015 to 2004
Robot_Was_BMO2026-01-26 10:28
It’s not that the tech can’t do it at that level again, it’s that the turnaround time is too short for them to do it like this again.
eltrotter2026-01-26 10:29
It was the most convincing de-aging I'd seen at that time. A huge leap forward from that waxy Professor X in one of the X-Men films.
Obraxiss2026-01-26 10:39
What wild is that fox had plans to make a Magneto solo film with Mckellen using that same de-aging tech, glad that never happened
CaptHayfever2026-01-26 21:08
IIRC, that project basically turned into First Class.
tehawesomedragon2026-01-26 11:48
Chris Evans in The First Avenger was pretty bad. I like that they later redid it in a vision scene and the effects were vastly improved.
eltrotter2026-01-26 11:58
Wait, when was Chris Evans de-aged in the first Captain America film?
Sparrowsabre72026-01-26 12:14
They probably mean skinny Steve rather than deaging
eltrotter2026-01-26 12:17
Yeah, you're right. I don't think that effect was bad at all, personally. It wasn't perfect either, but it never took me out of the film.
N8CCRG2026-01-26 14:36
I think it stands out to me more now than it did when I first saw it. Now I'm very familiar with what Chris Evans actually looks like, so the little version stands out as being very weird. But the first time I saw it was also before I really know him at all (I had seen him in previous things but didn't know it at the time as he wasn't memorable to me yet), so "little Chris Evans" made just as much as sense as regular Chris did.
_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_2026-01-26 12:14
He was not. However, they did CGI his face onto Leander Deeny’s body for the first act.
eltrotter2026-01-26 12:15
Oh right - to be honest I don't think that effect was bad at all. Not 100% convincing all of the time, but pretty far from "bad".
Responsible-Bonus2782026-01-26 13:28
Pretty bad is a stretch. I honestly don't see anything wrong with it
8P69SYKUAGeGjgq2026-01-26 14:26
I think it was only uncanny valley because we know what he's supposed to look like. Tech-wise, they did a really good job
xizorkatarn2026-01-26 10:30
Not to undermine how great this de-aging was, but I feel like Sam Jackson in Captain Marvel more than lived up to this benchmark. In fact I’d argue it surpassed it.
RubberbandShooter2026-01-26 10:34
Visually this is the best one, but it suffers a lot from them not using a body double for a lot of scenes. It's hard to see a 90s Sam Jackson move around like an elderly man.
xizorkatarn2026-01-26 10:36
Honestly I prefer the original actor with age doing the mocap more often than not (the Irishman being the best exemption from this).
I often find it’s easier to write in that the character is stiff from being behind a desk or something than it is to accept a whole new body replacement actor, that usually stands out way more to me.
WimpyKelv122026-01-26 11:03
I feel people exaggerate the problems with The Irishman’s cast’s movement.
Pesci’s character gave the impression he was trying to act older (thus more restrained) than he actually was (seems believable for a guy like him).
Pacino was pretty believable except for this one moment where he dropped his hands down onto a table a too slowly and stiffly for someone in their 50s.
DeNiro’s stiff movements seem to be an effort to make himself seem like a bigger and burlier guy than he actually is (the real life guy he was playing was 6’4” and the costume department admitted to giving him lifts and shoulder pads to make him look closer in size to the real guy). Everyone points to the hand stomping scene looking bad, but upon my first watch I was oblivious to the scene’s problems due to being distracted by the painful concept of your hand being jumped up and down on, and none of the pedestrians interfering with such a disturbing sight.
TurMoiL9112026-01-26 14:47
In hindsight, Patrick Stewart really extended his longevity as Charles Xavier by being in a wheelchair for 25+ years.
TrueLegateDamar2026-01-26 10:56
The Irishman had the same problem, having a heavily de-aged DeNiro beat up a guy with the very stiff movements of a 75-year old instead of letting a stuntdouble do it.
Funmachine2026-01-26 11:56
Eh, he was still mid 50's in 95, so he wasn't exactly any more spry. He doesn't have a whole lot of action either, just gets his ass kicked by Talos.
WimpyKelv122026-01-26 13:12
Sam only turned 47 in 1995.
The_Orgin2026-01-26 14:41
Hugh Jackman is 57
ETA: I know Jackman didn't magically stay like that. I'm just saying Nick Fury would definitely be in better shape than Sam L. Jackson in their 50s especially considering the fact that he was still a field agent at that time.
Funmachine2026-01-26 14:42
Hugh Jackman has been in good shape and predominently action orientated roles for the past 26 years.
Comeandg3tit2026-01-26 16:49
And Jackman stays in stupid crazy shape. Has a dance background as well. Not everyone ages the same.
bifkintickler2026-01-26 15:21
Stick with the DeNiro analogy. He was in his 50s in Heat and he absolutely was more spry. Pacino too, I couldn’t run for a fraction of the time those dudes do in that movie.
originalchaosinabox2026-01-26 12:37
A big thank you to Honest Trailers for pointing that out to me. Now I can’t unsee it.
HighSeverityImpact2026-01-26 16:02
De-aged Sam Jackson running in the stacks will never not be funny to me.
I have to believe the director didn't think to film coverage with a stunt double, and didn't realize the CGI would never make up for that old man energy.
WimpyKelv122026-01-26 10:52
To be fair Samuel L Jackson barely grew any older in between 1995-2019. Saggier sure, but he only looked very slightly older.
Granted his age has now seemingly caught up with him pretty quick in the last few years.
crumbsalt2026-01-26 11:07
It was INSANE in Secret Invasion too. Tbh best part of the show lol
InevitableWeight3142026-01-26 13:32
Yeah and while Secret Invasion sucked, it was insane to see Sam Jackson look 80 one second and then 30 the next in the flashbacks. And then go back to looking 50 in The Marvels. How do they do it!?
OliviaElevenDunham2026-01-26 13:37
I agree. Looked great in that movie.
Luci-Noir2026-01-26 17:28
That kitty is a menace.
_steve_rogers_2026-01-26 23:30
I disagree. He didn’t look how Sam Jackson looked back then. He looked like an alternate version that someone who has only seen old Sam Jackson would imagine he looked like young. IMO the Michael Douglass one was the most effective in the MCU.
Wooden_Passage_26122026-01-26 10:33
All the de ageing technology has always looked amazing
deez-nuts-are_nuts2026-01-26 10:35
Gordon gecko de aging
Original20562026-01-26 10:36
Uncanny valley..... you just know something is wrong.
gatsome2026-01-26 13:36
The work everyone gets overdone to their face is the actual uncanny valley
Mughi11382026-01-26 10:37
At the time it was still
Ew ew ew ew ew!
Sevb362026-01-26 10:49
People seem to have issues with the scene of a young Harrison Ford in the newest Indiana Jones, but I never had a problem with it. I thought it looked great. Hypothetically , if you could go back in time to show it to somebody in the eighties , would they think there's something look artificial about that? Other than them thinking it was real unaltered footage of Ford.
cocopopped2026-01-26 11:02
Thought it looked great. Plenty of reasons to despise that movie, but that wasn't one of them.
NotTheRocketman2026-01-26 11:09
The opening to Dial was amazing, some of the best I’ve seen thus far.
Stayno2026-01-26 11:51
I also really enjoyed that sequence and thought the de-aging was quite done well. One thing that pulled me out of it a little was his older voice, but I can look past that and enjoy the sequence.
Icy_Teach_25062026-01-26 14:09
Yeah that’s easily the biggest issue, he still sounds 80 (because he is). After plying Great Circle, Troy Baker could’ve done a great young Indy voice. But Disney already had experience using a de-aged voice with Luke Skywalker I believe.
Stayno2026-01-26 14:11
I would love to see a version of the sequence with Troy Baker doing the voice. He was fantastic in the Great Circle.
Icy_Teach_25062026-01-26 14:14
This isn’t Baker, but even something like this would’ve been better (although I’m not sure if it’s AI, if it is then I’d rather it not be used.)
https://youtu.be/Gj2xritohPc?si=wTYjKH8vSPjsusaO
CaptHayfever2026-01-26 21:10
Mark Hamill has a lot more voice acting experience than Harrison Ford has; I'm sure that was a factor.
Icy_Teach_25062026-01-26 21:20
I’m pretty sure they used previous audio clips of his when he was younger and used those, not modifying his current voice.
Sevb362026-01-26 14:34
I never really noticed it bring that elderly so much. Maybe I should listen again. Nowadays , with AI they can have him speak through the Respeecher program & sound like his 1980s voice.
Stayno2026-01-26 14:38
I didn't really notice it when I first watched it in cinemas, but I noticed more when I have rewatched it at home
quaggankicker2026-01-26 12:17
What? River Phoenix was great as deaged Indy
InevitableWeight3142026-01-26 13:34
I thought it looked passable. I could tell it was cgi, unlike Michael Douglas, but it didn’t distract too much from that banger intro scene. I’m glad they didn’t overuse the deaging though. They kept it to a minimum which I respected
Luci-Noir2026-01-26 17:29
Also thought it looked good. People just like to complain.
Uncles_Lotus_Tile2026-01-26 11:04
Will never forget the honest trailers commentary on this lol "They made 70 year old Michael Douglas look like.... 60 YEAR OLD MICHAEL DOUGLAS"
RavenK922026-01-26 11:09
No love for Kurt Russell?
UnseenTardigrade2026-01-26 12:48
That was a couple years later
cayoperico162026-01-26 18:02
Guardians II was May 2017 and Ant Man 1 was July ‘15 but yes Kurt looked good there too
Ramsus322026-01-26 23:12
This one is the one that always stood out to me. It was like they took him right out of the 80's to film those scenes.
Tkdoom2026-01-26 11:16
When i first saw the de-aged Michael Douglas (who i really like and didnt know was in the movie to begin with) I was absolutely amazed.
They did a great job!
He_Who_Complains2026-01-26 11:27
It is. But MrBunchanumbers on Twitter said it’s the worst thing ever put to screen, so therefore the consensus must be that it sucks along with everything else in the movie.
Nepomucky2026-01-26 11:46
Same for Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy. That was good work, too IMHO
AustriaModerator2026-01-26 14:31
no, looked totally fake, especially in 1080p upwards.
_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_2026-01-26 12:11
Is considerably easier if you already have tons of high-quality images of the actor when they were younger.
DavidBHimself2026-01-26 15:20
I came to say this.
I don't know why this is not the most upvoted comment.
CaptHayfever2026-01-26 21:06
True. On the other hand, they had lots of images of young Jeff Bridges, too, but de-aged Kevin Flynn in Tron: Legacy was still janky. Ant-Man was 5 years later. Then de-aged Sam Jackson in Captain Marvel was another 4 years after that & looked even better.
_steve_rogers_2026-01-26 23:29
I disagree. He didn’t look how Sam Jackson looked back then. He looked like an alternate version that someone who has only seen old Sam Jackson would imagine he looked like young. IMO the Michael Douglass one was the most effective in the MCU.
CaptHayfever2026-01-27 00:04
But he had less of the rubber face & more natural motion.
mklaus19842026-01-27 02:42
He needed to look proper in that opening scene... everything after was supposed to look artificial.
But apparently nobody told the VFX guys about thsi difference!?
Also I think someone once discussed that Flynn's jawline looked off as Bridges allegedly didn't want to shave for 3D reference models. Which would be a weird thing after he had shaved his head and grown a beard for Iron Man.
CaptHayfever2026-01-27 03:17
Oh yeah, *CLU* looking fake made total sense, but prologue Kevin is a different story.
TheFunkytownExpress2026-01-27 00:06
De-aging isn't so much about making the actor look like they did when they were younger so much as making a 20 or 30 yr old version of what they look like **now**.
Naive_Nerve53712026-01-26 12:19
I disagree. Frame by frame maybe, but when it’s moving it looks fake as you like.
I’ve got a feeling we won’t see much of this used in the future, especially not in the MCU. Whilst this was the fad of the week for a while, it costs far more money than just hiring a younger actor to play the part.
It’s been 11 years since this. I can’t think of much de-aging of older actors since.
A fad that is now over is my guess here
skronk612026-01-26 12:45
I would be more impressed if they just cast a young actor to play them in those scenes.
BlainethePayne2026-01-26 13:08
Except for that top lip
DelcoPAMan2026-01-26 14:18
Yeah, now I can't not see it.
FlashbackJon2026-01-26 15:48
Maybe he had a mustache from filming a different movie!
(But for real, that's kinda what young Michael Douglas looks like: he's got a weird upper lip!)
dylanc872026-01-26 13:08
This is still the only one to ever fully surpass the uncanny valley for me, to the point I was disappointed it felt like a step down in the sequel imo. His performance is a big part of it, he has the energy of a younger man than he does in the rest of the movie.
Current-Bowl-1432026-01-26 13:11
Why don't the studios spend some effort fixing their VOICES though? Michael Douglas may look 45, but he sounds 70.
Same goes for Samuel L Jackson in Captain Marvel, coincidentally the same relative age as Michael Douglas - about 45 in the movie but with a 70 year old voice. (And then when he starts running in the Pegasus records room, oh boy! 😂)
SpeedBlitzX2026-01-26 13:28
Its crazy to think this movie came out 10 and a half years ago.
noleter2026-01-26 13:54
It really does feel like this movie just came out yesterday. The tech was so convincing that part of me still believes Michael Douglas just naturally looked like that. Sam Jackson in Captain Marvel was definitely a worthy successor, though.
JollyJoeGingerbeard2026-01-26 14:01
They also had a *ton* of reference material from the 1980s to digitally construct this.
Obvious-Water5692026-01-26 14:42
I mean, it must be easier if there's a wealth of footage of actual Michael Douglas from the 90s.
throwtheclownaway202026-01-26 14:56
It helps that we have hours & hours of footage on 35mm film - effectively 4K - showing what he looked like at every age since he was in his 20s. When it's someone so many people have been seeing for *decades* and know what they should look like, that kind of thing helps.
jpopr2026-01-26 15:03
One of my favorite scenes in all the MCU
“He just kicked your ass full size. You really wanna find out what it’s like when you can’t see him coming?”
intulor2026-01-26 15:07
It helped that he's been in movies all his damn life so they had material to compare against.
thegreatlogini2026-01-26 15:09
Hello it's me, gay actor Michael Douglas
Aggressivehippy302026-01-27 01:51
I just wanted to make sure someone else said it
ChumleyEX2026-01-26 15:22
He looks a lot like my dead father, so it was a big shock.
thunderpachachi2026-01-26 15:39
They did a fantastic job on Michele Pfeiffer in the sequel too.
robodrew2026-01-26 15:45
I think the upper lip area looks a little off.
Personally I think they did an even better job on the de-aging with Sammy L in Captain Marvel.
Salarian_American2026-01-26 15:58
I bet it really helps when the person who's being de-aged starred in a pile of movies when he was that age, so there's tons of reference footage. Similar to how they got the de-aging on Robert Downey Jr. to work so well in Civil War.
Popular_Material_4092026-01-26 16:06
I haven’t seen Ant-Man in a while but I still believe this was the best example of it.
That and Kurt Douglas in Guardians 2
twentyonesighs2026-01-30 01:05
Kurt Russell. Kirk Douglas is Michael Douglas' father.
Popular_Material_4092026-01-30 02:02
Gahhhh! I swear I know my Kurt’s, Kirk’s, and Douglas’s!
HereWeFuckingGooo2026-01-26 16:10
For the time?
MickCollins2026-01-26 16:12
Admittedly it was easier because there's a LOT of footage to look at and compare to. Hell a few years ago I found out Douglas was in a Disney movie with Jodie Foster in 1972!
MosquitoValentine_2026-01-26 16:20
Marvel's CGI can be inadequate/rushed at times. But the de-aging always impressed me. Michael Douglas, RDJ, Samuel L Jackson and Russell Crowe specifically.
Probably helps when they have a library of past footage to reference.
Csantana2026-01-26 16:25
I wonder if having so much footage of him in film from the time helped at all
Jupit-722026-01-26 16:28
"For the time"? Come on...
976chip2026-01-26 16:45
I thought the digital de-aging on Douglas looked better than the old age makeup on Hayley Atwell in that scene.
howdoesitw0rk2026-01-26 17:26
The OG of De-Aging
EverlastingUnis2026-01-26 17:31
I always thought that’s how he looked and they just added practical effects to age him up 😂
crystalxclear2026-01-26 17:34
For the time? It still looks awesome today.
psypher982026-01-26 17:35
What do you mean “for its time”, that movie just came out…. oh. 11 years ago.
throaway201807302026-01-26 18:00
I think Benjamin Button is still the best one
TheEngine2026-01-26 18:07
The more I look at that picture, the more I feel like they used Michael J Fox's face from The American President to fill in holes.
PleaseRecharge2026-01-26 18:14
I do wish young Pym was played by Alan Tudyk tho
FoxMcCloud31732026-01-26 18:29
The one done on RDJ for Civil War looked like those skin-smoothing filters from Instagram or Facebook
FelixTheJeepJr2026-01-26 18:49
I remember wondering if they somehow repurposed a deleted scene from Wall Street or Fatal Attraction.
SirBing962026-01-26 19:21
Fallout could learn a thing or two
GIlCAnjos2026-01-26 20:02
This just reminds me of the Fallout Season 1 finale and how bad the de-aging was that one time
Material-Elephant1882026-01-26 20:14
one thing that i never see people criticize Marvel Studios’ CGI for. it blows me away every time they de-age an actor tbh.
Reachforthesky7772026-01-26 20:28
He kind of looks more like mid-to-late 1970s Martin Sheen than younger Michael Douglas
OneSkepticalOwl2026-01-26 20:31
He still has old man eyes, but the skin looks very good
Commentaires
It still feels new-ish to me dammit
2015 to 2020, and 2020 to 2025, are both chunks of five years each, but the depth and speed of them feels ***VASTLY*** different! I really don't know if it's just me
Look at Kyle MacLachlan in Fallout.
I think it's that, "We paid to have this actor, so we're using this actor" thing Hollywood loves to do even when it doesn't make sense.
Related, Harrison Ford's de-aging for Dial of Destiny, which is not the worst I've seen, but immediately undermined by Ford's 80 year old voice coming out of his young face.
There are AI voices even back then that were pretty good. Audio samples from his movies. There are impersonators that are great at Harrison Ford’s voice. I would think they would have used other tools to massage the age out of his voice too.
I can't believe they watched that back and decided it was good. It's so jarring hearing an 80 year old's voice come out of a 40 year old man's face. For as much money as they pumped into that, it's hilarious that they just went with it.
Not to undermine how great this de-aging was, but I feel like Sam Jackson in Captain Marvel more than lived up to this benchmark. In fact I’d argue it surpassed it.
I often find it’s easier to write in that the character is stiff from being behind a desk or something than it is to accept a whole new body replacement actor, that usually stands out way more to me.
Pesci’s character gave the impression he was trying to act older (thus more restrained) than he actually was (seems believable for a guy like him).
Pacino was pretty believable except for this one moment where he dropped his hands down onto a table a too slowly and stiffly for someone in their 50s.
DeNiro’s stiff movements seem to be an effort to make himself seem like a bigger and burlier guy than he actually is (the real life guy he was playing was 6’4” and the costume department admitted to giving him lifts and shoulder pads to make him look closer in size to the real guy). Everyone points to the hand stomping scene looking bad, but upon my first watch I was oblivious to the scene’s problems due to being distracted by the painful concept of your hand being jumped up and down on, and none of the pedestrians interfering with such a disturbing sight.
ETA: I know Jackman didn't magically stay like that. I'm just saying Nick Fury would definitely be in better shape than Sam L. Jackson in their 50s especially considering the fact that he was still a field agent at that time.
I have to believe the director didn't think to film coverage with a stunt double, and didn't realize the CGI would never make up for that old man energy.
Granted his age has now seemingly caught up with him pretty quick in the last few years.
Ew ew ew ew ew!
https://youtu.be/Gj2xritohPc?si=wTYjKH8vSPjsusaO
They did a great job!
I don't know why this is not the most upvoted comment.
But apparently nobody told the VFX guys about thsi difference!?
Also I think someone once discussed that Flynn's jawline looked off as Bridges allegedly didn't want to shave for 3D reference models. Which would be a weird thing after he had shaved his head and grown a beard for Iron Man.
I’ve got a feeling we won’t see much of this used in the future, especially not in the MCU. Whilst this was the fad of the week for a while, it costs far more money than just hiring a younger actor to play the part.
It’s been 11 years since this. I can’t think of much de-aging of older actors since.
A fad that is now over is my guess here
(But for real, that's kinda what young Michael Douglas looks like: he's got a weird upper lip!)
Same goes for Samuel L Jackson in Captain Marvel, coincidentally the same relative age as Michael Douglas - about 45 in the movie but with a 70 year old voice. (And then when he starts running in the Pegasus records room, oh boy! 😂)
“He just kicked your ass full size. You really wanna find out what it’s like when you can’t see him coming?”
Personally I think they did an even better job on the de-aging with Sammy L in Captain Marvel.
That and Kurt Douglas in Guardians 2
Probably helps when they have a library of past footage to reference.
The OG of De-Aging