10 More CGI Movie Shots You Never Noticed
1. CGI Genitals Were Added Into Certain Shots - The Northman
Robert Eggers' 2022 viking epic The Northman certainly didn't hold back when it came to mesmerising sequences of brutal violence, but perhaps the most memorable of the lot goes down towards the end of the routinely savage experience, when Alexander Skarsgård's Amleth fights Claes Bang's Fjölnir by a volcano.
Both Amleth and his uncle were entirely naked during this duel to the death, but Eggers would actually later reveal that his actors weren't made to perform the entire fiery sequence in the buff.
According to the director, mostly due to the fact that "nobody wanted to get their bits chopped off", all the genitals seen on-screen in this scene were actually created via CGI. Skarsgård and Bang were swinging their swords whilst wearing thongs on the day, and Eggers opted for these digital additions for some shots "so that they didn’t look too Ken doll-ish." (via THR)
Very few were likely focusing on the stars' nether regions during this particularly explosive showdown anyway, but those that were no doubt didn't notice that a specific portion of both actors had been digitally replaced in order to protect them from a potentially horrific scenario.