 Hi, I made you a very with Cal to be entertainment. I'm here at the SF moment for the red carpet of the movie Gemini man Let's see who we find. How did your previous films? Inspire this film such as like life of pie and how she Tiger hidden dragon How did those inspire the direction that went into this film? Well, there is a cumulative Learn from a previous movie and then there's something new you want to try. Yeah, there's a safety zone because you know and then there's the new territory That is unknown. It's always just the safe next step for you. The next step in this movie That's the scary part was the full humanoid CGI will Smith the younger version, right? Yeah, that was the next step. How did you feel taking that next step? I think what we learned here can apply to enhance a lot of performances looks and Not only on human, but everything you see with it. No, we're in the digital era That's hot chops to make believe As we're getting the digital era Especially when you see it with an angle. Yeah, we're alive. Yeah, we're getting to the immersive movie making or experience You just so much you want to look real a lot of physical pretends wouldn't work if there was a clone of you What do you think he would be up to you right now? He would be doing this interview and I You'd be getting the red you'd be definitely getting you need it. Yeah Yeah, you know, it's like that that whole idea of Cloning and that yeah, that is such an intriguing scientific idea to me and I mean the first time I saw that The image of myself of the two of me. Yeah in the frame. It was really chilly I'm just I'm excited about what the possibilities are for that technology Yes, and for artists what like what will be in the future. How did Jada feel when she saw the younger version of you? Yeah, I told her to keep that to herself Yeah, yeah The visual effects of this movie were pretty wild. How do you prepare for something like that? You start you said it sort of setting expectations What you think it's going to take with what parts you're gonna have to get in line You put all those in there You put everything together you realize that you're only about 10% of the way there Repeating the process until eventually What were some of your inspirations for like the visual effects in this movie like you look at a lot of movies to try to figure out What it is about them? Yeah, just to find sort of artistic inspiration to Challenge you to let me go further to that regard. I looked at a lot of things that dealt with Really beautiful performances in CG creatures You know Avatar Planet of the Apes they did some amazing stuff with You know Pirates of the Caribbean, you know, there's been some fantastic creature You know lower the rings but it's a fantastic creature films that we've done before. Yeah That that managed to capture the spirit of the essence of what the actor does. Thanks for tuning in to today's red carpet I'm a joe vera with Calty Entertainment and be sure to catch the movie in theaters October 11