‘Stranger Things’ Producer Shawn Levy Says Production Won’t Use AI To De-Age Actors In Season 5
deadline.comThe final season of Stranger Things is still on pause, but even as the principal cast gets older, executive producer Shawn Levy doesn’t think the team will need to go to any extreme lengths to de-age them.
Levy, who also directed two pivotal Season 4 episodes, recently suggested that the producers would do whatever they could to make the kids’ aging seem less apparent, because it will have been several years since the previous season wrapped production.
However, in an interview with Deadline, he clarified that he didn’t mean to suggest any computer-generated assistance. “No,” he insisted when asked about any using any sort of AI to make the kids look younger. “I kind of was surprised that one sentence I said around this topic traveled so widely.
The bottom line is, we know what we’re doing on this show. Our cast is brilliant. And these characters that the Duffers have created are so vivid.
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