LONDON • Every Hollywood actor is desperate to cling to their youth. Now, Will Smith, the star of Independence Day and Men In Black, can be 23 forever. But unlike his Botoxed peers, the secret of Smith's fresh face is a new breed of digital doppelganger, offering unprecedented realism.
In his latest film Gemini Man, the 51-year-old actor plays a retired assassin whose younger clone is sent to kill him. The 23-year-old Smith clone, known in the movie as Junior, is not the real actor hidden under layers of make-up or prosthetics. Instead, he is a completely digital recreation, constructed from his skeleton to the tips of his eyelashes by New Zealand-based visual effects studio Weta Digital.
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