How Actors Transform Into 95-Year-Olds For Movies And TV | Movies Insider

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Sometimes performers need to be aged up for a role. For occasions like this, special makeup effects artist Kevin Yagher will create prosthetic pieces and makeup.

For "Bill & Ted Face the Music," Yagher made Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter look like they were 95 years old. To do this, he first took lifecasts of the actors to see where wrinkles and droopage were beginning so he could then accentuate them. He then sculpted deep wrinkles while making sure parts of their bone structure were visible. Then he airbrushed tiny pores onto the skin and meticulously painted on broken capillaries and liver spots. He also realized he could make the two actors look older by giving Winter a pair of contact lenses that give off the appearance of cataracts while adding fake eyebags to Reeves.

Thank you to Kevin Yagher for speaking with us and providing us footage and photos. Check out more of his work here:
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How Actors Transform Into 95-Year-Olds For Movies And TV | Movies Insider

All Comments (21)
  • @Nokenuke
    Me who used to think old people actually acted for the movie: Welp.
  • @fardeen17037
    Plot twist : that guy is a time traveler who saw actors as old ppl
  • @aisadal2521
    I've always wondered how they made people look older with make up
  • @Wasbever_14
    “Inperfections are normal” Kids in 3rd grade when they cant draw inbetween the lines! Now this looks like a job for me
  • @surgec
    This is like a PSA for wearing sunscreen.
  • @TheNightsWolfYT
    I just wanna have all that done to me and when my friend wakes up to see me at his side, and hear me say “it’s been decades since you woke up.” In my best 80 yr old voice I can
  • @elisalmon6034
    That clip of him poking the old man skin freaked me out
  • @JustKrin
    Props to this guy, he made the impossible, made Keanu Reeves look old!!
  • @scottgamble7767
    Kevin Yagher is one of the greats in modern day special make-up. I'm very glad you folks have put together and posted this featurette. He also collaborated with two other modern day make-up greats on this movie... Bill Corso and Steve Wang. Years ago, there was a lot about special make-up in magazines and such. Not as much anymore, so many young people have commented at times about not knowing how this kind of work is achieved. Featurettes like this are very helpful in this area and I think invaluable in helping the general public know about the great amount of skilled work involved in creating Movie Magic like this. Thank you for this video.
  • @m00N268
    This us why I'm becoming an actor I learn so much from this channel it's so cool (:
  • Did he design an old man suit to Chris Evans's old Age look in Avengers Endgame ending scene? Coz it was so realistic. 😀👍
  • @user-vu6sp4hi5u
    I saw an Article on Rick Baker in Life Magazine in 1981. I've been a special effects makeup artist for over 35 years because of that. It's the best job that I could have ever imagined because every project is something different. I love it when I first walk onto the set with the actor in the completed makeup, and the Director sees something that he only dreamed of, right there, standing in front of him. That never gets old for me.
  • @emiliog.4432
    Aging the eyes is the most difficult part. Lids, lashes, contacts ,etc..sell the illusion.
  • @azdafal9885
    Is that Eren Yeager GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILD
  • Me looking at my 13 y/o body checking off all the details from the video realizing I’m at least 95:
  • Always wondered - how they make exact replicas of their work - for multiple day shoots or if the piece gets damaged mid scene?
  • @reidergal
    When i look at this old Keanu the phrase "hello there" Pops in my head