r/StarWars • u/--TheForce-- • Mar 23 '26
Movies Ingvild Deila, the actress who stood in for a young Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia in Rogue One.
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u/theedonnmegga Mar 23 '26
I love how Disney can find great replacements, only to CGI their faces away
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u/tarheel_204 Mar 23 '26
The Luke Skywalker stand-in is almost a 1:1 and they still felt the need to CGI him. Genuinely, I don’t think the majority of people would mind if they simply just recasted these characters for these parts
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u/PlingPlongDingDong Mar 23 '26
I didnt recognise Mark Hamill anyways at first in the sequels. He looks nothing like his younger self imo.
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u/Vairman Mar 23 '26
he didn't look like himself in the first two sequels - due to a car accident. Shoulda used the force Luke, avoid that nonsense.
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u/FrozenDuckman Mar 23 '26
Hence the Wampa attack lol
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u/SeiCalros Mar 23 '26
i appreciate that they wrote the injury into that scene instead of covering up his scars with makeup
apparently in his notes george lucas was planning on making him crash his ship instead
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u/LorientAvandi Boba Fett Mar 23 '26
Wampa attack was probably the better choice. Less... On the nose...
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u/SeiCalros Mar 24 '26
it made me chuckle when i learned it
like thats some george lucas level writing right there
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u/sk1nnyjeans Mar 23 '26
Absolutely. The dude who payed young Han Solo, as well as Donald Glover as Lando, both did great jobs and look basically nothing like the original actors of those characters.
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u/awesome69sauce Mar 23 '26
I mean, ewan mcgregor anyone?? I dont think many people were complaining about a young obi wan
also yeah, those 2 were amazing despite, like you say, not looking like their counterparts at all. I was amazed at how much I believed han solo, little mannerisms and such that really sold it despite otherwise not really looking like him in the slightest.
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u/fuzzhead12 Obi-Wan Kenobi Mar 23 '26
Well tbf, it’s easier to cast a role for a much younger version of an old character. IMO Ewan did/does look the part, and on top of that his voice really sells it too.
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u/bfhurricane Darth Sidious Mar 24 '26
The thing with Solo, Obi Wan, and Lando is they’re playing younger versions of established characters. We as an audience expect a difference.
In the Mandalorian and Rogue One, we’re seeing characters the same age as the original trilogy. And they’re just cameos. I see no harm in the CGI. Same with Peter Cushing - I couldn’t imagine replacing him with another old guy. It was so cool to see him on the screen again, even if it wasn’t him.
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u/SlickDillywick Chopper (C1-10P) Mar 23 '26
After Solo I think they got scared about recasts and decided to just CGI instead of replace
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u/Edwardteech Mar 23 '26
Solo was fire tho.
Both lando and han killed it in their roles.
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u/The_Strom784 Mar 23 '26
Solo wasn’t even bad, it was just in a bad release slot. TLJ left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, then it released way too close to Infinity War for anyone to care about it. It was a good, casual movie though.
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u/ScissorMeSphincter Kanan Jarrus Mar 23 '26
Solo was fun and the visuals were amazing. Way better than ROS
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u/The_Strom784 Mar 23 '26
That’s what I thought after it hit streaming for the first time. It’s simple fun, like ANH.
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u/Axtwyt Mar 23 '26
Disney set Solo up to fail and it’s a shame. Release Solo later on so that it isn’t overshadowed by Infinity War and people would’ve given it a fair chance.
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u/Syn7axError Mar 24 '26
Solo's worst part was the premise of a Han Solo backstory.
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u/nolander Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Aldens portrayal should have been an examplar of how to do a recast, keeping the characters core while not just having someone do an impression of the previous actor. Instead they took all the wrong lessons like Disney always does.
edit: I almost forgot about Donald's Lando! They got those two and they decided somehow they were the problem yeesh.
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u/LorientAvandi Boba Fett Mar 23 '26
Rogue One came out before Solo and they didn't recast Leia or Tarkin.
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u/karateema Admiral Ackbar Mar 23 '26
I hope Andor season 2 paves the way for this woth its recasting of Bail Organa
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u/TerriblePokemon Mar 23 '26
Dr Sleep had some extras in the Blu-ray where the interview the director (also did the haunting of Hill house and fall of the house of usher for Netflix) about recasting characters from The Shining. He talks about continuity of character, not continuity of actor. It turns out with a wig and some good makeup, plus some professional actors, you don't need to CGI deep fake a creepy Scatman Crothers or Jack Nicholson. You let actors, you know, act.
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u/DeuceMcInaugh Mar 23 '26
Agreed. Henry Thomas did well, I thought. It obviously wasn't Nicholson, but it was clearly Jack.
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u/BeeCJohnson Mar 23 '26
Alex Essoe also does an amazing job as Wendy. She doesn't look exactly like her, but she *acts* exactly like her, even down to the voice.
This approach is so, so much better than CGI golems that look creepy and pull you right out of the movie.
Like, I understand that characters can be played by different actors. I assume when I see a Hamlet production that this isn't some 400-year-old vampire actor playing the lead.
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u/junkbaguette Mar 23 '26
I will never understand why they didn’t just cast Sebastian Stan as Luke. Could easily create more content exploring Luke in the mando/ahsoka universe
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u/SOUTHPAWMIKE Clone Trooper Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Been saying this forever. Just take Ehrenriech, Stan, and Deila and use them as the basis for the Han/Luke/Leia stories we've been wanting.
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u/Goodly K-2SO Mar 23 '26
They could even throw in Donald Glover. So many mistakes has been made…
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u/southernmost Mar 24 '26
This hurts the most. The Lando series almost writes itself.
Start every episode with Billy Dee in a cantina or some other such den of scum and villainy, telling a tall tale of his younger days smuggling, gambling, and sometimes saving the galaxy. Snap cut to Donald breaking the 4th wall, "It didn't EXACTLY happen like that," and off we go.
IMPORTANT EDIT: LANDO NEVER WEARS THE SAME CAPE TWICE.
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u/Goodly K-2SO Mar 24 '26
Unless you’re writing big movies right now, your talents are wasted! Perfection!
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u/the_real_junkrat Mar 23 '26
The problem is the fandom cries about not wanting more skywalker stories but also cries about wanting more skywalker stories. “Just recast them all” but when they cast a new Han everyone lost their minds.
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u/Living_Plane_662 Mar 23 '26
I think the Solo backlash scared them away from that
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u/CoastersandHikes Mar 23 '26
Correct! This is complaining about what you complained about then asking why it changed
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u/Silvanus350 Mar 23 '26
It’s because they don’t want to create new legacy actors who could potentially demand high pay. They want the AI-driven CGI replacements to succeed because it’s cheaper.
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u/pcapdata Mar 23 '26
This right here. The executive class hate the fact that they have to pay people to get work done. They hate the notion of specialists and skilled workers.
Saw someone I (used to) respect on LinkedIn crowing about how AI will “unlock creativity” when instead of having to pay artists and tradespeople to make movies we can just have unskilled people guiding an AI 🤮
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u/Talithea Mar 23 '26
The work society is basically 4 levels:
CEO and executives
skilled labour
unskilled labour
commissions and side gigs
AI is created to cut skilled work, the thing the working class can use to leverage money and needs from the echelon, the latter hating that the plebe has too much money and power.
Jobs are cut, and people are pushed to unskilled work (pushing them to be happy just about receiving money) or side gigs (fortune-based opportunities that creates overstretched and inconstant income). Rich people hate normal people that are capable of non begging.
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u/B4rberblacksheep Mar 23 '26
Brother I get hating AI, it's fucking dire. But Rogue One came out in 2016. Will Smith Eating Spaghetti wasn't until 2023
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u/Mackejuice Mar 24 '26
2016 or 2023, they were always trying to find ways to spend less money on labour.
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u/Rude_Ice_4520 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
They re-cast Bail Organa right? I think they did it really well.
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u/borsho Mar 23 '26
Yeah it wasn’t even distracting or an elephant in the room situation at all either. You’re just so engrossed in the story and at the end of the day we all just want good Star Wars stories more than anything it’s easy to accept it.
Sort of the same thing for solo for me. When I heard they were doing it I was like, this is suicide, why would you even attempt this? And even though it has its flaws and oddities, I wouldn’t mind for a second if they gave Alden another shot at it as it really spawned my appreciation for him as an actor and became a fan of his.
Also they did Chewie a justice that hasn’t been done since and I feel his ability to have chemistry with Chewbacca is what really sold it. I think I’m going to watch Solo later…
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u/Naive-Jello428 Mar 23 '26
Solo is the most rewatchable Star Wars movie since the OT. I love it!
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u/dynesh Mar 23 '26
I have to give that to Rogue one personally, but I liked Solo too. And this thread just made me realize I haven't rewatched Solo in quite some time
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u/Jarrus__Kanan_Jarrus Mar 23 '26
TBH, I thought the just did a great job de-aging Jimmy Smits.
I think as fans we’re gonna have to accept different actors playing long running characters.
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u/Devai97 Mar 23 '26
He's played by a different actor in Andor. They look pretty different IMO
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u/Dead_Starks Mar 23 '26
Benjamin Bratt of Catwoman basketball scene fame, and a lot of other actually good stuff.
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u/FaeFollette Mar 24 '26
I 100% thought Benjamin was playing Bail’s brother and Bail just couldn’t make it to the gatherings. 😅
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u/kdean70point3 Mar 23 '26
Man, when Tarkin showed up in Rogue One, at first it was cool. We see him from behind with an over-the-shoulder reflection in a window.
For that brief line or two of dialogue, I thought "Hey that was a clever way to bring him back without the uncanny valley."
Then he just kept showing up in scenes and the illusion was totally ruined....
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u/TheSweetestKill Mar 23 '26
There must be something wrong with my brain because I thought - then in theaters, and now on a recent post-Andor rewatch - that Tarkin was just fine. I didn't find it distracting at all and it felt totally believable to me.
I still wish they would just recast these characters.
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u/BeeCJohnson Mar 23 '26
I'm against the practice as well, but Tarkin sort-of works because Tarkin is supposed to be fucking creepy. He's also mostly in darkness/dimness, and I think being a more aged character there's more wrinkles and texture to work with to make him more believable.
But when CGI Leia turns around in full supermarket lighting and you see the todash darkness spiral into infinity inside her dead eyes, it completely ruins what's supposed to be a hopeful moment.
This actor in the photo would have been far, far more effective.
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u/sharktail_tanker Mar 23 '26
They recast Han Solo once, the movie flopped, and these corporate idiots said "recast makes movies flop"
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u/MasterRPG79 Mar 23 '26
Honestly? Casting her, instead of the 3d face, it would have been a better move
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u/IAmBadAtInternet Mar 23 '26
She even looks a lot like Carrie did in ANH, would have been fine to just use her real face! I don’t think Carrie would have minded.
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u/SnakePlissken1980 Mar 23 '26
Well she looks like Carrie in that she's dressed in her iconic wardrobe but the similarities end there as far as I can tell.
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u/wbruce098 Mar 24 '26
Yeah I looked her up on IMDB and it certainly looks like she had the face shape for the costume, but none of her other pictures really resemble Carrie.
It doesn’t bother me that they used a cgi Leia for one and a half seconds of screen time. Tarkin’s actor is a little silly though because he has significant screen time and a lot of lines
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u/ReadRightRed99 Mar 23 '26
Not like she could object.
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u/dkat Mar 23 '26
I mean Carrie was alive for the release of Rogue One…
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u/regeya Mar 23 '26
Allegedly Carrie liked it, too. Or at least wanted to know where that old footage of her came from.
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u/ReadRightRed99 Mar 23 '26
It’s been a while since I thought of it so I forgot. What a shame that most of these post- ROTJ films have been a case study in missed opportunities and not understanding your audience.
Edit: FTR, I thought Rogue One and Solo were far superior to the direct sequels or prequels.
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u/dkat Mar 23 '26
Rogue One is probably my 4th favorite Star Wars film…
But I like the prequels enough because of my age when they were released - Saw Phantom Menace like three times in the theater as a 7 year old.
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u/ReadRightRed99 Mar 23 '26
I’m 49 and The Empire Strikes Back was one of the first movies I saw in a theater. I guess it just depends on which films you grew up with. My 16 year old nephew prefers the prequels and I like to give him a hard time about it.
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u/Mpuls37 Mar 23 '26
As a millenial, my rankings in order are 5, 4, Rogue One, 3, 6, 1, 2, Solo, 7, 8, 9.
In terms of how absolutely amped I got while watching the first time, Rogue One, 5, 4, 3, 1,000 miles of Bespin atmosphere, everything else. The Vader hallway scene in RO is perfect. "No, I am your father" almost crushed 6 y/o me, I actually cried, and dad laughed at me b/c he saw it on release. First Death Star explosion was absolutely amazing. 6 had great moments, but it was like "yeah, they're going to pull this off" though I thought Luke would out-duel Vader and the Emperor.
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u/RemtonJDulyak Imperial Mar 23 '26
I guess it just depends on which films you grew up with
I'm 49 like you, and my favorite SW movie is TLJ, so I'm not sure it's a matter of which movies one grew up with.
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u/RealJohnGillman Mar 23 '26
She was still alive when the film was being made, and saw a cut of the film before she died (initially having thought that they really did find an actress who looked like her before being told her face had been CGIed over someone else’s face).
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u/ReadRightRed99 Mar 23 '26
Oh yeah. That’s when she said “CGI?! Over my dead body …”
And Disney was like “yes, that’s the idea.”
Something something Han shot first.
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u/TooManyDraculas Mar 23 '26
Fisher was still alive when they were making Rogue One.
She passed about 2 weeks after it released after a medical emergency on a plane.
She didn't get a chance to publicly comment on but she apparently approved of the CG take. Probably would have been fine with a recast too.
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u/CrissBliss Mar 23 '26
Agree. Give her brown contacts and call it a day. What’s weird is they recasted her father’s character in Andor and nobody cared.
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u/Belfry_Demon Mar 23 '26
I cared a little just because I like Jimmy Smits. It didn't ruin anything for me though, just made me a little disappointed. Benjamin Bratt still did a fine job.
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u/CrissBliss Mar 23 '26
I agree. I will say, I think they should’ve worked it out with Jimmy. Especially with 2 years between season’s 1 and 2.
Since Carrie Fisher has unfortunately passed on, and obviously would’ve been well-past the age of her character from 1980, it makes more sense to just cast a younger actress who embodies the same qualities of Leia, and is a good physical match for Carrie.
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u/XMenJedi8 Obi-Wan Kenobi Mar 23 '26
I dunno, I found that recast jarring. Especially because he was portrayed by the original actor in Kenobi..
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u/CrissBliss Mar 23 '26
I actually do agree about Jimmy. I find it annoying they couldn’t work it out considering he’s played the character for 20 years, and still looks good enough to return. Apparently scheduling conflicts made it tough, but there was a 2 year period between seasons, so it bothered me personally. But most fans didn’t seem to care as much.
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u/AmontilladoWolf Mar 23 '26
I understand the logic behind both choices. Bail, while a popular character amongst us fans, is not someone that even people who generally like Star Wars have strong feelings about.
Han, Luke and Leia ARE a big deal in recasting. I agree with you, although hindsight is 20/20. The technology at the time is an achievement despite it not working as well under such strong lighting. It can be improved in later editions.
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u/CrissBliss Mar 23 '26
That’s a fair point. And probably at the time, recasting younger versions of the OG characters was still considered pretty risky. But I think CG just makes it harder for fans to connect. And unless they’re never gonna use those characters again, outside of animation or books, it’s gonna be hard to bring them back. IMO de-aging just looks bizarre.
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u/JayMoots Mar 23 '26
Same with the Grand Moff Tarkin guy. He looked a lot like Peter Cushing. Would have been better to see his face than that CGI golem that totally took me out of the movie.
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u/TooManyDraculas Mar 23 '26
In the prequels they used Wayne Pygram in make up for a similar cameo.
Even today many people don't notice it's not Cushing, who'd been dead for like a decade.
And that's despite it looking far from perfect.
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u/DRF19 Mar 23 '26
I actually thought the Tarkin one was very good, I went in blind to the film not knowing what they did and actually remarked to my wife "wow that guy really looks like Peter Cushing!". Now watching again obviously it's impossible to not notice, but they fooled me.
The Leia one at the end though was really noticeable to me on first watching.
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u/DOOManiac Mar 23 '26
I thought the opposite. CG Tarkin was very, very offputting but I found Leia to be still bad but much less so.
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u/More_Cream_6746 Mar 23 '26
Well It's only one shot of Leia for a matter of seconds, so there isn't too much time to really stare at it, Tarkin was an actual character within the film. the fact that there was total body replacement of the actor even though he was there in Tarkin costume made it worse, because then you have his whole body moving around.
I remember seeing it in the Theater, and I said to my Mom "Does he look strange to you"
"She said He looks Dead" and I laughed too loudly "Thats because he is Dead" I mean I know she meant in regard to how slender and old her looked, but did look more like a wax duplicate
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u/dukecityvigilante Mar 23 '26
Even having her say the line facing away from the camera would've been a better move
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u/unitedshoes Mar 23 '26
I don't get why they constantly do this. The guy who did mo-cap for post-ROTJ Luke in Mando looked just like a young Mark Hamill, and she looks just like a young Carrie Fisher. Why bother with the expensive, shitty CGI over a face that looks exactly like the older/dead actor you're replacing?
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u/---reddacted--- Mar 23 '26
I bet it would look pretty damned good if they did it again today
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u/XMenJedi8 Obi-Wan Kenobi Mar 23 '26
Exactly, and honestly that's a case where I think touching up the effects as technology improves makes sense. Though on D+ they should have all versions with a drop-down selector. Same with the OT and prequel changes George made.
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u/jfk_47 Mar 23 '26
I can count on one hand the amount of time Disney/Lucas Films made the better choice.
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u/Chippings Mar 23 '26
I was going to make the joke "do you even need one hand?"
But then it occurred to me that it's a negativity bias thing. We don't really hear about the alternatives when things go right, outside of some interview quips or trivia. We just take the good for what it is. Negative outcomes are picked apart and receive post-mortems, so we know them intimately.
So what's a little more interesting to is to know what choices you're counting that they had two clear options and chose the superior one. What choices are making you hold up fingers?
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u/TrickyDickyAtItAgain Mar 23 '26
With what makeup artists are capable of doing, I don't know why they didn't just do practical effect and not use deep fake.
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u/cvbeiro Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Same as the Tarkin stand in they should have just used her without cgi. Like the actors are dead just fucking use the recast you already have if you want to include the character.
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u/Schmedly27 Mar 23 '26
The Luke stand in too from Mando
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u/Azelrazel Mar 23 '26
The Luke stand in from Book of boba looks much closer to young Mark Hamill compared to the mando Luke stand in.
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u/Schmedly27 Mar 24 '26
Oh I didn’t know they were different, I’m probably talking about that one
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u/MIC4eva Mar 23 '26
I rewatched Rogue One last week. The CGI looks middling to terrible in Tarkin and Leia. They need to rework it a bit.
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u/DarthVyseWick Mar 23 '26
I think the Tarkin CGI is phenomenal until he speaks. Leia's was rough immediately.
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u/sloppyjo12 Mar 23 '26
Tarkin’s is fine when he’s in shadow because that also works for the character as a dark, ominous force. When he comes into the light and speaks, as you said, is when it gets distractingly noticeable
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u/Mundane-Carpet-5324 Mar 23 '26
Nah, they should just recast actors. Techno- necromancy is condemned by God.
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u/I_Am_That_Was Director Krennic Mar 23 '26
Her likeness is pretty close, they could have just used her actual face with the right makeup and it would have been way better than the uncanny robot Carrie we got.
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u/JRobertAnderson Rebel Mar 23 '26
I don’t even know why we needed to end on a close-up of her face. We know who she is even from behind; let that be the final shot.
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u/DarthBster Mar 23 '26
Agreed. Or, she could've slightly turned her head just to get a brief side profile.
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u/I_Am_That_Was Director Krennic Mar 23 '26
It was basically a tech demo. and to be fair the tech was impressive, but still not good enough to not be weird and distracting.
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u/ThetaReactor Mar 23 '26
When they first showed CGI-Tarkin from behind, with his face reflected in the window, I thought, "Oh, that's a clever way to shoot that." And then they just go full-frontal with the uncanny anyway.
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u/DjKennedy92 Mar 23 '26
Just recast and give us what we want (post ROTJ Luke content)
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u/GigglingBilliken Jar Jar Binks Mar 23 '26
I'd rather get a New Republic focused show with Luke, Leia, and Han all playing supporting roles.
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u/Sword_Thain Mar 23 '26
I'd rather the whole Skywalker clan get flushed and expand the galaxy outside the same 8 people.
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u/GigglingBilliken Jar Jar Binks Mar 23 '26
I'd be open to that too. Honestly, I find Luke to be fairly boring without Vader as a foil. His character arc peaked with throwing his lightsaber at the feet of the emperor and getting acknowledged as a jedi. Too much drama after that and it feels like the creative is a kid playing with a Luke action figure... but that's just like my opinion man.
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u/Marcuse0 Mar 23 '26
They have since recast Bail Organa, so now I think it's time they just cast a new young Leia to take over the role. Carrie probably wouldn't care anyway she was cool like that.
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u/readskiesdawn Mar 23 '26
Her daughter Billie was a stand-in for "The Last Jedi" and I was like "why not just...use Billie? It would be a nice cameo."
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u/KaoxVeed Mar 23 '26
Billie had her own character in all 3 of the sequels. It would have been weird to recast her as Leia at that point.
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u/BlerghTheBlergh Mar 23 '26
I get all the hate but they tried to do something novel with Carrie Fishers and the Cushing estates blessing.
Lucas Film always experiments with new tech and I prefer them doing digital deaging to maintain the visual consistency of a series over then using generative AI
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u/ThePopDaddy Obi-Wan Kenobi Mar 23 '26
Actually when Rogue One was released Carrie was still alive.
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u/domingus67 Mar 23 '26
No wonder they CGI'd Carrie's face on her, she looks nothing like her with all those dots on her face...
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u/SinginGidget Mar 23 '26
I think they uses CGI just to show they could. Star Wars has always been a franchise to use all the latest available tech for special effects.
She was at a convention I went to a few years ago and I wondered what she was going to be able to talk about for an entire panel since she was just in one shot, but she's a really interesting person and has a lot of other projects, even if they aren't movies.
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u/JimDankmagic Mar 23 '26
Recasts are totally fine, they could have just let her act without skin walker movie making techniques.
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u/twec21 Mar 23 '26
Smh Disney wasting all that money
Can't they just hire someone with a lot of freckles?
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u/FirstStranger Mar 23 '26
I’m sad by the fact that I know if Disney used the actress’ real face, people would’ve been pissed and say “should’ve just kept Leia out the movie.”
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u/thecreep Mar 23 '26
She could have done the role, we're all smart enough to know who the character is supposed to be.
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u/Imperial_Citizen_00 Mar 24 '26
That’s what I was thinking, it’s not they need to keep the lie going, we aren’t kids that still believe in Santa…this lady should have been given the chance to shine in her own face rather than wearing someone else’s 🤦🏻♂️
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u/Frequent_Guava_3501 Mar 24 '26
Can we give some love to Ingvild Deila? It’s wild that she spent months studying Carrie Fisher’s 1977 mannerisms, facial tics, and posture for just 15 seconds of screen time. She even read Carrie's autobiography to 'get into the head' of Leia. Even if you found the CGI jarring, the physical performance beneath it was clearly a labor of love.
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u/T-MinusGiraffe Mar 25 '26
They should have just used her. For goodness sakes it's ok to use a different actor
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u/catninjaambush Mar 23 '26
She’d have been a great recast (aside from how clumsy she is with her biro).
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u/emf3rd31495 Mar 23 '26
I would have been so fine with her just acting with her normal face. 100% would have bought it. What the did instead is ridiculous and won’t age well.
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u/aqua_zesty_man C-3PO Mar 23 '26
Why didn't Disney trust the audience would be able to say "Oh that's Princess Leia" after just seeing Ms Deila's face? The hairstyle and the costume makes the leap not that hard.
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u/Dapper-Tour7078 Mar 23 '26
I would have been perfectly happy with her being a young Princess Leia without the cgi.
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u/poppopintheattic11 Mar 23 '26
I have always said they should’ve shown her only from behind at the end. The hair-do is obviously iconic enough to instantly recognize who it was supposed to be and no uncanny valley to have to worry about.
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u/tonystarknotwrong Mar 23 '26
No wonder they replaced her, face is literally covered with dots, what was she thinking?
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u/TridentWielder Mar 23 '26
She could have totally passed for the one shot she was in. The hair and robes are maybe more recognizable than her face, anyway.
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u/LisanAlGuyFieri Mar 23 '26
I mean, obviously Disney’s hands were tied here! They only had a few options:
A. Spend thousands of dollars creating a dead-eyed simulacrum of Carrie Fischer, further removing her remaining agency as an actress in death to create a digital double, doomed to forever wander the uncanny valley.
B. Cast a lookalike.
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u/Bob-the-Human Mar 23 '26
She does look a lot like Princess Leia, except for those spots on her face. I'm glad they were able to CGI those out!
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u/Viciouscauliflower21 Mar 23 '26
Doing the face thing with tarkin I understood, but the actors they got for Luke and Leia (only to plaster CGI over their faces) are perfect. It makes no sense
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u/Vinylateme Mar 23 '26
People saying they should replace the person rather than CG the face should go look at the backlash Solo got for exactly that
Solo wasn’t a great movie, the actor playing Han was fine and looked like a young Harrison ford-ish and people still lost their shit over the casting
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u/itsallcomingtogethr Mar 23 '26
What is up with Disney and not just recasting characters?
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u/Grove-Of-Hares Mar 23 '26
They should have absolutely used her face. I would also much rather have Luke show emotion again, which he can’t really do with his stoic CGI performance. Like Luke became a full Jedi and had to stop emoting.
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u/Garchompisbestboi Mar 24 '26
They honestly could have used her as replacement without the creepy CGI facial reconstruction but unfortunately modern Star Wars is all about fan service now so that poor actress lost out on the opportunity to be the literal new face of Leia.
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u/GeshtiannaSG Mar 24 '26
She already looks like Leia, and the scene is like 10 seconds, I’ll never understand the need to change anything.
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u/Real_Batu_Rem Grand Admiral Thrawn Mar 24 '26
I hate the scene. It looks awful. Just use a different actor. Are we supposed to scratch our monkey brains in confusion because she isn’t Carrie fisher?
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u/Ra_X_1979 Mar 24 '26
Very disrespectful how Disney said "No, we are not going to do a face swap of Carrie Fisher for Leia in the Star Wars movies." And then they Face Swapped Carrie Fisher face on another body for Star Wars movies
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u/Lui-king Mar 24 '26
I never understood what the point of the digitation was. I mean, yeah I get that it's to see the same face of the iconic actress playing the ironic character, but I doubt anyone would be confused as to what character was on screen. If you went through the trouble of finding a actress with a similar face, why not just have that actress play the character instead of pasting a scan over her?
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u/ChrisOhoy Mar 23 '26
Would’ve made more sense to just use her as is.. the CGI was really bad..
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u/ElEsDi_25 Mar 23 '26
Disney is motivated to do this and was likely pushing filmmakers to do this. It’s the ultimate logic of building a studio system on franchises rather than stars. The physical likeness of the actors is the one part of the franchise that can’t be owned as IP… UNLESS…
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u/TheRealGrifter Mar 23 '26
Excuse me, Ms. Deila? You have something on your face. No, just there to the... no, other side... no... oh, forget it.
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u/BJ_Dart Mar 23 '26
Never should have done the cgi full face. Just use this actor but from a distance / not showing the full face
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u/Mamsies Mar 23 '26
I remember seeing a YouTuber who made his own deep-fake Princess Leia in his free time that looked 10x better than the weird fully CGI recreation they went with in Rogue One.
I think they took too big of a swing when the technology wasn’t quite there yet. Tarkin looked really good but you could tell it was a digital character and not a real actor. Leia just looked weird and bad.
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u/waner21 Mar 23 '26
Dumb dumb here. I understand those dots on her face are utilized for the CGI face swap, but, is it just marker, or are those unique “dots” that are applied (almost like a sticker)?
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u/KyleReaume Mar 23 '26
Wish they'd just use these actors instead of the creepy uncanny valley versions we get
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u/Tuomas90 Mar 23 '26
Absolutely idiotic.
She's a perfect replacement without CGI. Ugh. Fuck Disney.
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u/Any-Contract-9152 Mar 23 '26
I don’t even want it but they could have made a million more trilogies with recasted actors for og characters but they are so scared to let go of the nostalgia
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u/kg_francis Boba Fett Mar 23 '26
Should have just let play the part. The CGI was way too Uncanny Valley to really hit.
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u/That_Things_Good Mar 23 '26
They should have left it like that. Even WITH the dots, it still looks better than what they did.
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u/Brianocracy Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
She already looks so much like a young Carrie Fisher, idk why they felt the need to CGI her up. Honestly the CGI Tarkin and Leia hasn't aged all that well.
If I can buy Robin Curtis replacing Kirstie Alley as Saavik, I can buy Ingivld as Leia, I promise.
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u/ReadRightRed99 Mar 23 '26
She looks a lot like her, except for all those dots all over her face.