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Beth (ALICE BRAGA) and Remy try to escape agents.
Depending upon how much
of the skin surface Sapochnik
and DP Enrique Chediak
wanted to show in a scene,
creating the body took anywhere
from a couple of weeks
to a month. The final step was
to punch by hand the hairs on
the proxy’s head, one by one.
The bodies also had to
have reinforced cavities that
were large enough for the
repo men to remove the heavy
metal artiforgs. Making the
bodies look as realistic as
possible was priority number
liver. “We started with the real shape of a heart, with one. Explains Clement: “When we made a surgery
the correct number of valves and chambers, which was torso, we usually made the organs out of silicon so
very mechanical and had an anatomical enclosure,” he they reflected light well. We also made plastic bits for
explains. “Then we added some bulbs for fun.” the rib cage for an understructure so the skin didn’t
The artiforgs were built by special makeup effects deform. We had all kinds of tubes coming in from
designer ANDREW CLEMENT, who used high-impact different angles, and we had blood coming in…as well
aluminum-filled epoxy resin that was metallized with a as any kind of bodily liquids that we needed in there.
separate layer of chrome surfacing that gave it structure “We put bladders underneath a lot of the organs so
and rigidity. Though ultimately quite happy with his that we had movement inside,” continues the designer.
work, Clement admits that the heart was the toughest “When you look at any surgeries that have been
organ to build: “It was like building a ship in a bottle filmed, there’s a lot of movement inside the body: the
because of the tiny motor, valves and chambers that heart is moving, the lungs are breathing and things are
actually open and close and pump blood through, all of shifting around.”
which had to fit perfectly together.”
Clement’s team used layers of latex to create the
Clement’s team also had the task of creating the bladders (similar to balloons) that were custom
highly detailed, bloody prosthetic limbs and bodies, formed to fit underneath the organs inside the abdominal
coelom and other cavities. To give them a real-
from which the artiforgs are removed. This was an
area with which Clement was quite familiar, as he’d istic “squishy” feel, guts were created out of soft
spent years working in an emergency room. The prosthetic
bodies, or “cart bodies” as Clement calls them, of material to ensure some organs were firmer than
silicon. As well, the team tested out various densities
were silicon life casts of the actors.
others. The crew used olive oil to give the organs a
Through a variety of mold-making steps, the team wet shine, and they even spent a full day testing various
created the entire body and used several washes of five consistencies of fake blood to guarantee that it would
to six different colors to give the skin a translucent look. read realistically on screen.
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