10 Actors DE-AGED For Huge Movie Roles

Steven Lisberger's Tron was a cultural sensation in 1982. As well as being the first feature film to put an entirely CGI-rendered scene on our screens, it introduced audiences to the possibilities of virtual reality, and gave the ever-charismatic Jeff Bridges - who stars as Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer and game developer who finds himself transported into the digital landscape of his computer - a much-needed boost in Hollywood. But the big man wasn't done yet.

Returning in Tron: Legacy as both Kevin and his younger, evil, digital self Clu from the first movie, Bridges was able to step back into both pairs of boots thanks to some savvy VFX work. One of the first big Hollywood movies to use this kind of de-ageing tech in a major role, as well as the first to have an actor play opposite the younger version of himself, Tron: Legacy brought two full-fleshed characters to the screen via a full-service digital workover.

The VFX team made Bridges look 35 again by recording the star’s facial movements and superimposing them onto a digital model of his younger self. While the end product looks pretty good for 2010, and helped move the technology along that bit further, it is nonetheless unfortunate that similarly painstaking work was not done on Bridges' voiceover. After all, it's hard to suspend disbelief when there's a 61-year-old voice coming out of a 35-year-old face.