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How the Special Effects Makeup Looks so Realistic

When it comes to the special effects makeup, like when someone is visible wounded, a combination of makeup and prosthetics are used. June's gunshot wound required a 3D piece prosthetic that was then blended with makeup, because "you need a piece to flow into the skin to make it realistic," said Blanc.

In order to get the makeup of the wounds, bruises, and gashes just right, tons of photographs are taken by LeBlanc and his team, allowing them to digitally track everything. "It's a challenge," he said when talking about needing to get the makeup just right time and time again when filming out of order.

Anytime there's an obscene amount of blood involved, which there is in one of the scenes involving a young wife who shall not be named (no spoilers here), the actors are taken to the side to an area covered with rubbish bags. Once there, LeBlanc explained, they're "completely drenched and splattered with this blood" that's thrown at them using various squirting and flicking techniques.

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