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‘Bring Her Back’s’ 12-Year-Old Star Jonah Wren Phillips on Ollie’s Fake Teeth, Biting Into a Chocolate Table and His 6-Hour Demon Transformation
'Bring Her Back' child actor Jonah Wren Phillips explains how the table and knife biting scenes came to life.
Jonah Wren Phillips, the 12-year-old star of “Bring Her Back,” isn’t a fan of horror movies, despite playing a ravenous demon child who eats the flesh off his own arm and the remains of a frozen corpse in the Philippou brothers’ latest film. To create the table-biting scene, prosthetic FX designer Larry Van Duynhoven and his team made sets of dentures for Phillips to wear, plus a balsa wood table that already had some bites taken out of it. Van Duynhoven’s team made a full-body cast of Phillips’ body to create Ollie’s full demonic transformation for the end of the movie, when he has a bulging belly, exposed ribs and bright blue veins snaking across his torso.
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