Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
There’s makeup for the purpose of aging a character, and there’s ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,’ which took aging makeup to the extreme. All of the stages of age are portrayed by different actors, but the challenge was to make them all recognizable as the same person.
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So the filmmakers would impose one actor’s face on top of another’s body. For some scenes, Pitt played the character directly with lots of makeup and hairstyling, but for others, his facial features were replicated on another actor’s body. For some sequences, Pitt had prosthetics and makeup applied to make him look older.