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dialogue cues of their twin without risk of overlapping off camera lines while they act out the scene alone. Once the first side is complete, a hair, makeup, and wardrobe change occurs for the actor to transform into character number two. They are then fed the A-side lines from a preferred take to their earpiece while they act out the B-side. If the camera is set up as an over-the- shoulder or clean single, where the face of only one twin is shown, then the process is extremely simple with a lighting stand-in or photo double and no special tricks are necessary. Sounds simple right? To begin this journey, I spoke with Cincinnati-based production mixer Geoff Maxwell, who mixed the HBO show An American Pickle with Seth Rogan. Geoff was brought onto the project late in prep due to a last-minute crew availability change, and jumped right into the deep end. Because Geoff only started on the project two weeks before Day One of photography, his input was not present during all of the prep to shape what the sound department's role would be during the shoot. He had to play catchup and get up to speed with the decisions that had already been made. Geoff wanted to keep the setup as simple as possible when he designed his workflow in order to focus on recording the set. In the film, Seth Rogan plays a modern character, as well as an identical copy of himself in the form of a revived ancestor who was brought back to life from a century ago. The two roles saw Seth play a bearded version (filmed first with his real beard grown out) and a shaved version (filmed only after all the bearded work was complete). The two characters interact heavily with each other for the duration of the film. Whenever the two characters are seen on screen, the viewer can be assured that the two sides were filmed weeks apart as the production photographed all of the bearded versions first, then went