Gaeta's leg

[Naked Gents Rut]

Kirk Lazarus would have a leg amputated for a role.

[Blaupanzer]

I concur. The only possible explanation is that he's just an incredibly dedicated actor and made the ultimate sacrifice for his craft.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Kirk Lazarus would have a leg amputated for a role.

At least until the DVD Commentary. Then he'd lace it back on.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Have you listened to the Tropic Thunder DVD commentary? He really did stay in character for it...

[Imran Siddiqui]

No, not yet. I tend not to listen to the commentary on my discs... I'll have to for that .

[snoopy369]

But people in front of blue screens normally appear as themselves in front of a background. That would mean the image itself has been digitally altered, right? Or that it is real.

As Koy said, yes, not directly a blue screen. A green sock, or blue sock, or whatever color was appropriate based on the (other) stuff. Of course it is 'digitally altered', every single piece of film you see nowadays is (in some way) digitally processed. Heck, they've been doing it for half a century (remember the old driving in a car in front of a moving background stuff? Same thing, just lower quality). This sort of thing is pretty common, and trivial to do (you just have it coated in one color, and then tell the software to remove all pixels of X color, with some more complexity but not much).

[Dinner]

I was most interested in how it was done; I didn't know about the green or blue sock but that makes sense.