10 Actors DE-AGED For Huge Movie Roles

Adapting the novels of the late, great Philip Roth has never been easy. Many have tried, many have failed, and director and star Ewan McGregor's American Pastoral is closer to the latter.

Starring as a family torn apart by one major, life-changing, community-shattering event, McGregor and Jennifer Connelly star as all-American couple Seymour and Dawn Levov. And it was no small task for either actor taking on roles that span from the pair's young, courting days up to the miserable in-film present of 1996, inhabiting these characters through every stage of their lives.

For Connelly's role as Dawn, who is a young beauty pageant contestant when the couple first meet, the VFX team aimed to de-age her by 25 years, so that she would appear similar to how she did in 1991's The Rocketeer, filmed when the actress was just 19. To achieve this, they digitally enhanced her face to make it look more full, rounding her cheeks and jaw, and smoothing out her skin.

Paired with the 1950s setting, styling and soft tones, the effect managed to look pretty natural and was a rare win in a film that was otherwise dead on arrival.