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I can't wait to show you, like, the future!
Just a... scooter.
They're actually pretty fun.
BRANDON TROST: Because Seth is playing two parts,
one of the main things we wanted to do,
is really shift the look between Herschel and Ben
and that big shift for us is the fact that
Seth has this giant beard as Herschel.
Had to divide the movie up into two chunks.
One is the Herschel chunk.
DOCTOR: It's been 100 years,
but the pickle brine preserved him perfectly.
And, then there's the chunk where I play Ben.
We were able to track down a living relative.
Greenbaum?
(LAUGHS) Greenbaum?
Greenbaum!
BEN: (LAUGHS) This is nuts.
This is a process that's been done, many times
in cinematic history.
With making one actor seem like two.
It's typically done with a split screen,
where you shoot the actor on one half,
and then you change them
and put them on the other half of the frame.
For us, the tricky part is that we have to shoot all the parts
with a beard first, and then return
to all these shots later, once he shaved,
to put Ben back into these frames.
It's almost entirely 'cause fake beards look terrible, in movies.
DIRECTOR: Action!
BRANDON: It's a really tricky process,
because we have to be very specific with
coming back to the exact frame that we've set,
the exact lighting,
we have to know where we were with the camera.
We're writing the shot number with a UV marker on the floor,
so we can come back and find all these same positions again.
And we're doing the same thing when we shoot outside.
We're putting nails into cement in places where we've been
around the city.
Anything that we can do to come back to the same places,
we're going to these extreme, you know, levels of detail.
-(CAR HORN BLARES) -It's cool, man.
It's a cab. It's gonna take us back to my apartment.
Oh yeah, crawl in! There you go, you got it!
We are shooting the first big sequence
between Ben and Herschel.
SIMON RICH: This is a scene where,
we kind of see just how drastically different
our characters' lives are.
BRANDON: They both come home to Ben's apartment.
And we are interweaving them together
as elaborately as we can, to make it feel like
the two of them are actually in the room together.
Hi, I'm Ian Poake, and I'm Seth's acting double.
BRANDON: We needed someone who looked like Seth.
Someone who could understand and imitate his physicality,
I'm not actually even speaking, when we're doing these scenes.
We can hear the take they're gonna use through the earpiece.
How many pairs shoes you own?
BEN GREENBAUM: Oh man, maybe like seven?
(EXHALES IN SURPRISE)
And so I'm doing all of the emoting,
so Seth has someone to act off of,
25 socks!
BEN: It's like normal, for these times.
IAN: There's a lot of, stuff going on in this scene.
And they're doing shots where I'm completely removed.
So, when we're filming it,
I had to do the lines with Seth off camera,
and then for timing purposes, I'm saying--
Removing cartridge.
Reaching over to sink.
IAN: So then, when they match both of those shots together,
it's about the right amount of time.
Woo!
-(GIGGLES) -Woah-oh-oh!
It's crazy.
I don't know how the hell they're gonna figure it all out,
but it's gonna be awesome.
Tell me, what is it you do for job.
Let me guess. You are doctor.
No, you're a lawyer.
No... (LAUGHS) close! Freelance mobile app developer.
What?
SIMON: It's obviously a very fantastical story,
very surreal.
At the same time, it's about family.
And the importance of being able to access where you came from.
BRANDON: Just the fact that Seth is playing two parts
against himself.
I wanna see this movie, more than anything.
This must be very overwhelming for you.
-(GRUNTS) -Stop!
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It's a lot, it's a little much.
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