The VFX crew on “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” is experienced in the laborious process of de-aging a well-known person like Nicolas Cage.
The team’s goal was to make Cage, who is 58 years old, seem 20–25 years younger for the movie’s Nicky Cage role.
The goal of Nicky, Cage’s fictionalized younger self in the movie, is to maintain Nick Cage’s (with a K) status as a hugely successful superstar.
The movie’s visual effects team collaborated with CoSA VFX to bring Nicky to the big screen.
Christopher Lance served as the team’s VFX supervisor for the portions that were filmed in America.
How did they make Nick Cage look younger?
Erik Bruhwiler, the head of digital makeup at CoSA VFX, and Lance’s team employed artificial intelligence to generate a “template” of the actor’s face when he was younger using video from the historical period.
How old was Nicolas Cage in moonstruck?
In the 1987 romantic comedy Moonstruck, which is set in Brooklyn, Loretta Castorini (Cher) tells Ronny Cammareri (a 23-year-old Nicolas Cage) that he is a wolf.