Liev's fake hair...?


What's the deal with Liev's hair in this movie? It looks like plastic, or as if it were sprayed on. If you look closely you can see where they sprayed it on, there's residue on his forehead. Is he balding or something?

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Speaking as a guy, I would put money on it that at least 80% of Hollywood male actors have fake hair, either in the form of transplants, plugs, or something else. Even if you don't go completely bald or anything, usually the hairline recedes a little, follicles get damaged over the years from using products and things. So many actors seem to have this straight-edge hairline that just looks fake/unrealistic.

A good example of them pulling off covering baldness is Jon Cryer. They practically spray painted his hair in the last seasons of THM. He's one of the few ones that didn't get plugs/transplants and just admitted he was going bald.

Liev, I don't know, his is tricky, he may have had balding up top/in the back. He's a tough call for me. There are several other celebs that are really obvious, though. Brendan Fraser, Tom Cruise, Stephen Colbert (look at his brothers hairline), Chris Evans. Not ALL of the celebs out there are fake, but I'm willing to bet a good number of them have some form of fake/transplaneted hair.

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I think they were trying to make him look more like the person he was playing.

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I think they were trying to make him look more like the person he was playing.


This. Here is a picture of Boris Spassky from around the relevant period:

https://chesslynx64.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/boris-spassky.jpg

Based on paparazzi and other pictures from when he's not working, Schreiber's hairline is a receding a bit; but the reason for the helmet of hair in Pawn Sacrifice is that Spassky wore his own thick mane of hair that way. Even Hollywood wigmakers apparently can't perfectly duplicate it.


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