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THE ARTISAN FALL 2018 • 41 Client: SONY File Page: AE: JP Job #: SONY-SO01-01_THEARTISAN_MAKEUP_HAIR_113018 Movie: STAN & OLLIE Last Rev: JE Date / Time: 11/16/18 12:15 PM Publication: THE ARTISIAN Date To Run: XX Type: Specs: SAU Line Screen: 85 Version: B So, back to fighting in water, the enemy of any and all prosthetics. That's true if it's Atlanta humid- ity and it's certainly true when the action moved to pools of water where some of the most intense fight- ing occurred. And when you add in hand-to-hand com- bat, well, it means we were always at the ready when pieces where knocked off, scratched, rubbed and more. It's part of the job, part of what we sign up for. If you're going to get pre- cious and protective of each piece you make, you're in the absolutely wrong business. We serve the story and serve the production, and if it means the 80 or so applications the make-up team put on carefully and meticulously in the wee hours of the morning get battered and need regular replacing, well, that's part of the fun, right? The Dora Milaje (the women warriors of Wakanda) pre- sented a whole different challenge. They had to look amazing at all times, but never as museum pieces. There's a ranking order to them, and their rank is indicated by the head tattoos. Danai Gurira's Okoye is the general, so her tattoo denotes that rank in both the aesthetic and the sheer size of the tat- too. The idea behind it is it's supposed to look somewhat aggressive, like a fighter pilot helmet, but the designs within that exterior stencil are obviously very influenced by African design. Gen. Okoye's tattoos were the most elaborate and most dif- ficult to achieve. To put it on meant applying a stencil, then cleaning it up, then adding more to get that necessary detail. It was a daily process, as was constant shaving of Danai's head, since these stencils and hair most definitely don't mix. Ken Diaz and his team did a great job on all the tattoos, and we're very proud of that work. Then there were the three tribal masks that the make- up department was responsible for creating. There was the wooden panther mask Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa wore, the gorilla mask M'Baku wears, and the mask that Killmonger steals from the museum and puts on when he liberated Klaue. These had to be authentic, but also had to be worn during fights. Visibility for the actors was crucial—and not easy with elaborate wooden masks, but they had to look real. We figured it out. We had a different kind of challenge with Klaue, played by Andy Serkis. He had a prosthetic arm with a blaster cannon built in. The cannon was put in later with VFX, but the pros- thetic arm had to be able to move easily without wrinkling. We made a cast of Andy's arm and created a mold, then put silicone in and sanded it down to just the right thickness. We think it looked pretty real. One final challenge was the mouth plate the people of the River tribe wear. It was inspired by the real Mursi tribe of Africa, which involves removing the four bottom teeth and putting the plate on the lower jaw. We weren't going to ask our actors to undergo any exotic dental surgery, so instead, we made a cast of their lower teeth, created a plate that locked into the actor's jaw and then finished it with make-up so it all looked real. I said that was the final challenge, but the truth is each day on the set of Black Panther was challenging in its own way. Difficult, maybe, but we wouldn't have it any other way. • M A K E - U P / T A T T O O B Y K E N D I A Z DEPARTMENT HEAD MAKE-UP ASSISTANT AND TATTOO DESIGNER A fter working with Joel Harlow as the Department Head Make-up assistant on Logan, Joel told me that he had been offered to do Black Panther. Joel told me that there would be lots of tattoo work on it and asked if I would do it with him. I signed on to Black Panther as the Department Head Make-up assistant and tattoo designer. I flew from Los Angeles to Atlanta. When first walking into Black Panther's production office, the first thing I noticed was photos on the wall of Ruth Carter's amazing costume designs of the many of the different Wakandan groups and their leaders. Jabari tribe, Border tribe, River tribe, Mining Dora Milaje body make-up Creating the mouth plate of the River tribe