20 Things You Didn't Know About Blade Runner 2049
4. The Return Of Rachael
The character of Rachael, a Nexus 7 Replicant unaware of her true nature, is central to both the original Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.
Wallace offers Deckard a new model of Rachael and to the disbelief of the audience, Sean Young walks into the room, looking exactly as she did 30 years prior. Mere CGI? Not quite.
Rogue One gave us a resurrected Peter Cushing (with mixed results) but here the effect is particularly convincing, so how was it done?
Actor Loren Peta was brought in to body double for Young - nothing new there - but the difference between this and Star wars resurrections is that Young, thankfully still very much alive, was hired to teach Peta exactly how to walk like Rachael, stand like her and mimic her every movement. Digital artistry simply filled in the rest.