{"id":610102,"date":"2024-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/poor-things-hair-makeup-designer-talks-creating-monstrous-faces-with-human-hearts\/"},"modified":"2024-02-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T21:00:00","slug":"poor-things-hair-makeup-designer-talks-creating-monstrous-faces-with-human-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/poor-things-hair-makeup-designer-talks-creating-monstrous-faces-with-human-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Poor Things\u2019 Hair & Makeup Designer Talks Creating Monstrous Faces With Human Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n When Poor Things<\/em> hair, makeup and prosthetics designer Nadia Stacey began crafting the prosthetic looks for Willem Dafoe\u2019s Godwin Baxter, her goal was not to make him look like a monster. Rather, she wanted him to look like there was a man underneath all the injuries that his father inflicted upon him with medical experiments when he was a child.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt was one of the hardest things of the whole filming process for me because with Baxter, we were designing something that we hadn\u2019t seen before,\u201d Stacey tells THR<\/em>. She worked with prosthetic artists Mark Coulier and Josh Weston for about a month on developing the mad scientist\u2019s look. Once the team nailed down Baxter\u2019s face the way director Yorgos Lanthimos had envisioned it, with five silicone pieces and a hair-punch piece around his ear, it would take about two hours and 40 minutes every day to get Dafoe ready for filming.<\/p>\n

\n Emma Stone\u2019s character, Bella, whom Baxter reanimates after her suicide by putting the brain of her unborn fetus in her head, does not wear makeup at the beginning of the film. It\u2019s only when Bella is in Paris working at a brothel that she starts wearing it.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s using her makeup as a storytelling tool rather than making someone look pretty,\u201d explains Stacey. \u201cIt\u2019s actually a huge part of the film for Bella. It\u2019s a choice for her not to wear it because she\u2019s a baby. Why would she be putting makeup on? She doesn\u2019t know\u00a0that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Stone also wears no wigs in the film. Stacey used Stone\u2019s shoulder-length hair, died it black and wove in hair extensions. The length of the extensions would vary depending on which part of the movie they were filming that day. \u201cWe did shoot chronologically a lot of the time, but because the length varies, I had to have masses of hair hanging around the makeup trailer as they were getting longer and\u00a0longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Every night, after a head massage for Stone, who\u2019d worn extensions all day, Stacey would send the actress home with her hair slightly damp and braided so that her hair had a \u201ccrinkle effect\u201d for shooting the next day. \u201cIt helped to blend the pieces, and the Victorians actually did it a lot: They would sleep with their hair plaited, so it kind of is right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Of course, Stone\u2019s character also bears a C-section scar as well as a neck scar from when her head was cut open, which were made with the use of prosthetics. But Stacey\u2019s work wasn\u2019t limited to Dafoe and Stone\u2019s characters. She explains that there were masses of other prosthetics used on set. All the autopsy bodies were made from scratch, for example. Additionally, the other girls in the Paris brothel wore nipple prosthetics, and Kathryn Hunter\u2019s character, Swiney, the brothel madam, was covered in full-body tattoos.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThat was quite a big operation,\u201d Stacey says of Swiney\u2019s tattoos. \u201cIt was like 100-and-something tattoos that were all individually designed for Swiney and app<\/a>lied individually.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n This story first appeared in a February stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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