Jamie Kennedy, star of the upcoming sequel Son of the Mask, told SCI FI Wire that the movie featured more special-effects work than any of his previous films. "It was way more than anything I've been involved in," Kennedy said in an interview. "There are so many different effects you have no idea what you're doing or what you're running from. You have to hit so many different marks and make sure that you react to the [nonexistent] thing that you have to trust that it will work."
In the follow-up to 1994's zany The Mask, Kennedy plays a struggling cartoonist who inadvertently imbues his infant son with the powers of Loki's mask. He said that working with a baby provided some unique challenges. "Sometimes they had the real baby, and they would just tweak his face a little bit with CGI, and then there are other times when they just created a totally fake baby," he said. "Literally on my first day, I was doing a scene with the real baby, and then in the middle of the scene, they would take the baby out of the scene, and they would say, 'We can't finish this scene today.'"
Kennedy also said that alternating between real and computer-generated sequences created continuity problems for the actors. "It was hard in the sense that there was no continuity," he said. "You might shoot a scene on Monday and then not be able to finish it until Thursday. So Tuesday and Wednesday you will be shooting something else. You would shoot many different scenes at once and get little pieces of them at a time, because they were so effects-based."
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