20 Things You Didn't Know About Waterworld

13. Kevin Costner Had His Receding Hairline "Fixed" With CGI

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Though digital de-aging is all the rage nowadays, it wasn't so much of a thing 25 years ago - at least as far as we knew.

But it's definitely appropriate that Costner's vanity project saw him commit the hugely vain act of asking the film's visual effects crew to digitally cover up his receding hairline in post-production.

As you can imagine, this wasn't quite the same simple touch-up job it would be today, though impressively, you'd never know simply by looking at the movie.

In a film taking place in a post-apocalyptic, aquatic hellscape, does anyone really care if the protagonist has a full mane of hair or not?

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