10 Actors Who Were Recreated With Special Effects In Movies

9) Arnold Schwarzenegger – Terminator Salvation

In the recent Terminator: Genesys, Arnold Schwarzenegger circa-1984 was digitally recreated for a fight scene with the real Schwarzenegger, as two T-800s went to battle. The previous Terminator movie also had to recreate the Austrian actor’s likeness though, as on that occasion, Arnie wasn’t involved in the film whatsoever. He was serving his second term as Governor of California at the time.

For a scene where the newly-minted T-800 menaces Christian Bale’s John Connor, a similarly-built body builder was recruited to stand-in for Schwarzenegger. To recreate his looks, the stand-in wore a handy facial prosthetic based off one made for the original The Terminator. This was then touched up with CGI in post-production.

While this isn’t one of the most ambitious of actor recreations – the T-800 has no lines, for example – it still resulted in one of the best scenes from the otherwise disappointing sequel. Thankfully, the uncanny valley aspect of the phoney Arnie wasn’t so impactful here, as the Terminator is a robot anyway.