#GEMINI MAN CAST JUNIOR MOVIE#

#GEMINI MAN CAST JUNIOR MOVIE#

Lee made things even harder for himself by shooting the movie in 3D, at 120 frames per second.

That meant he needed to be more than a “gimmick” - and it would have been prohibitively expensive to apply that “handcrafted brushing” to so many shots. briefly playing a younger version of himself in “Captain America: Civil War”), Lee noted that in “Gemini Man,” Junior is one of two lead characters. Where other movies have limited this process to a handful of scenes (think Robert Downey, Jr. Will Smith as “Junior” in Gemini Man from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films Lee contrasted Weta’s approach to the way other movies have experimented with using visual effects to de-age stars - he described them as just brushing away actors’ wrinkles: “When you do that, you take away all the details … Aging is much complicated, it’s life.” Stuntmen stood in for Junior during many of the action sequences, and Smith contributed to the character through performance capture, but ultimately, Junior is a computer-generated creation from the team at effects house Weta Digital. Will Smith plays two characters in “Gemini Man”: a middle-aged government assassin named Henry Brogan, and his younger clone, Junior, who’s sent to kill his older self. That’s because Lee is doing something - several things - genuinely new here. But afterwards, when we got a chance to grill him about the production, he had a single question in return: “Did you believe in Junior?” When we answered yes, his relief was palpable. Before showing “Gemini Man” to a group of reporters last week, director Ang Lee described the movie as a “leap of faith.” Then, to illustrate how nervous he was, he pretended to bite his nails.

Gemini man cast junior