Explaining all the Breaking Dawn Renesmees

Breaking Dawn's Renesmee will be played by 10-year-old actress Mackenzie Foy. She is Renesmee. However, she will also be played by three other young actresses -- Eliza Faria will play Renesmee at age 5, Rachel St. Gelais will play Renesmee at age 6, and Sierra Pitkin will play the oldest Renesmee -- but not the way you might think. After all, it wouldn't be much fun to watch a character whose face is completely different every time she ages in a flash.

So special effects artists that also worked on Avatar, behind the movie are going to superimpose Mackenzie Foy's face on the three other actresses' bodies in the scenes where she is at varying ages/sizes. The digital effects used will be similar to those used on Brad Pitt in the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

This also means that there are more baby size Renesmees that have been cast, that we haven't heard of yet, to close the gap from birth to age 5. Or are we going from the birth to age 5 in a flash in Breaking Dawn? That is a little food for thought.

Age 5 Renesmee-Eliza Faria Age 6 Renesmee-Rachel St. Gelais Older Renesmee-Sierra Pitkin

But we won't see these adorable little faces, cause they will have McKenzie Foy's cute face transposed on theirs.

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Comment by Emma on February 4, 2011 at 9:40am: this just makes me think renesmee is going to look really strange....

Comment by JoS on February 4, 2011 at 9:48am: they're all so cute but i'm team Mackenzie altough she is a little too old to play Renesmee she is the one that looks the most like Rob and Kristen.

Comment by Sparkle Cullen on February 4, 2011 at 9:52am: the other 3 girls arent AS cut as Kenzie but Kenzie's too old..they should have just got a smart 3 or 4 year old..really not that hard to find..

Comment by sarah cullen on February 4, 2011 at 9:53am: iam sooo excited..

Comment by Edwardsforlife on February 4, 2011 at 10:48am: I hope they do a better job than Benjamin Button. That was just creepy looking.

Comment by imaGINAtion on February 4, 2011 at 10:51am: ~This little girl Mackenzie is the perfect Renesmee...I hope all the imaging they'll be doing turns out good!!

Comment by fanpire on February 4, 2011 at 11:00am: Mackenzie is so pretty :) she could be 'the real' Renesmee. but it can look strange with all this bodies and just one face.

anyway, i can't wait to see the effects :)

Comment by catherine on February 4, 2011 at 11:14am: cool...I thought they might do something like that....smile...I can't wait for the movie to come out!!!! smile.....

Comment by Eden Courtney on February 4, 2011 at 11:40am: I always knew that bringing Renesmee to 'life' was going to a real challenge. There would simply be no one little girl who could grow from birth to 7 or so during the course of filming the movie. I think Bill Condon has accepted the challenge and is going to do a great job. He also has some topnotch special effects people on board, so I have confidence that it will be the best it can be.