Richard Linklater

You know, eyes a different color.

So Ethan had to go through a complete transformation.

And that was... We've worked together a lot, but we've never had that particular challenge.

But just to get the character right, that was staring us in the face all these years.

We've been developing this over 10 years.

So we're like, God, how are we going to do that?

So as we got closer to game time, it was fun to solve those problems.

But...

It was old school stagecraft.

No prosthetics, no visual effects, nothing.

Just old tricks.

He shaved his head.

He left it long on one side.

We did that.

Contact lenses.

For the height, we probably threw...

probably like five or six different methods to get him lower it was really basically it was lowering him and keeping everyone else at the same height so and then various ways of him to walk and to maintain the lower height the costume department has to be in on that you have to build the

The wardrobe that he's shorter to give the – it's like a visual trick, but I don't know.

It was kind of fun, old school.

Ethan had the kind of neural capacity, the quick-firing –