Still happening today. Backrooms did some numbers this year on a low budget, and relied on a 7'7"/2.3 m actor (with prosthetics and makeup) for one of the freakier looking characters in recent film.
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I ran across a study a while back how social media is causing brain damage in kids.
AI, social media and internet is becoming the lead poisoning of this generation.
But this particular example is far from a cooked brain situation. I had the same questions when I was a kid about how they make cartoons and movies. There are many practical and in camera effects that were used to make people bigger or smaller and are very interesting to learn about. Nothing cooked about it.
Today with Robert Bobroczkyi. What an absolute unit. Singular. Unique.
I hope he gets treated well and is respected.
I can’t imagine it feels good to only ever be called on to play monsters.
He's built different... like, incorrectly.
not too many giants in the world these days i guess
Shorter lifespans from poor blood flow and other problems that arise from it.