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Alison Brie and Dave Franco discuss the hilarious audience reaction to the final merged character in their film 'Together.' Hear them explain the complex visual effects process and share their funny 'qualm' about the final look of the creature.
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00:00But I do want to ask about the final shot because, like, the merge, how was it?
00:04Was that an actor? Is that visual effects? I mean, how are they?
00:06The very final shot, that is a combination of practical and visual effects.
00:12So it's Allison in a wig with shoulder pads with Dave Franco makeup eyebrows
00:19and Dave Franco makeup contact lenses.
00:22And then our visual effects supervisor did the comp herself of cutting out Dave's nose
00:27and jawline and kind of, like, sticking it together.
00:30Oh, my God.
00:30And, yeah, I'm so proud with how it came out because that's been in there from the first draft
00:35of just, like, the movie has to end in this shot.
00:37I don't know why, but I just kind of felt like that's the end, yeah.
00:39Sure.
00:40Creating that, I mean, can you both talk about that, going through the makeup process?
00:44Yeah, well, so the final shot is, it's my body, it's me.
00:49We shot me with some shoulder pads with Dave's eyebrows and a wig.
00:54And then we shot Dave's face, Dave in the same spot.
00:58And they ended up, you know, overlaying, doing the VFX.
01:01It's Dave's nose, it's Dave's jaw, it's Dave's Adam's apple.
01:04The funniest thing about that to me is we did a couple test screenings before Sundance.
01:10And in the test screenings, you know, we were testing levels of how much of Dave's face,
01:15how much of my face, but the audio wasn't mixed yet.
01:17So it was my voice.
01:19And hearing my voice would send signals to the audience's brain.
01:23So I would sneak in the back of these test screenings.
01:26The audience didn't know I was there.
01:27And after one of them, they're asking questions.
01:29And what did you think about this final person?
01:31And how did it make you feel?
01:32And what did it look like to you?
01:33And one person goes, it just looks like Alison Brie.
01:36And I turned to one of our producers and I was like, that's the meanest thing anyone's ever said.
01:41Because we will say one qualm we have with that final creature is we were just disappointed with how unattractive.
01:49We wish they were a little more attractive.
01:51Like the merging of our two faces made that face.
01:55They're not unattractive, but we just wanted them to be a little cuter.
01:58Yeah.
01:59So it's not the face that either of you would kind of make out with if you saw them looking
02:03on the big screen.
02:03No.
02:04I don't think I want to make out with any version of both of us merged anyway, no matter how
02:09attractive they are.
02:10I don't know if that's true for me, but.
02:12Interesting.
02:14Yeah.
02:15I'll have to see some different versions and decide.
02:17I'll have to see a second side.

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