The "Stranger Things" kids are young adults now, so making them look like children again was tricky for the show's fifth and final season. This is evident in season 5's first episode, which opens with a flashback scene chronicling Noah Schnapp's Will Byers being stuck in the Upside Down back in the day — a storyline that took place in season 1. Bringing these scenes to life required the show's creators to use digital de-aging technology, but did they give fans some misleading information about the process?
"Stranger Things" season 5's first scene took months to complete , mainly because teenage Schnapp's digitally de-aged face had to be inserted onto the body of a younger actor to recreate young Will. It looks quite awful, and it's worsened by the fact that Shawn Levy, an executive pro

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