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Spring 2019

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THE ARTISAN SPRING 2019 • 39 GROWING UP IN REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, I loved going to the movies. But never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I could be part of making movies. One of my most memo- rable outings to the movies was going to see West Side Story and thinking, "You mean they sing and dance in the streets in New York?!" To this day, I still love movies with singing and dancing with a bit of romance, which is why I was more than thrilled to be part of La La Land, which had all of those things, and on which I designed the looks for Emma Stone. It was through my relationship working with Emma over many years that I came to be part of Maniac. The show is created by Patrick Somerville and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. It's set in a world somewhat like—but not exactly, ours; in a time similar to—but not exactly, this one. It revolves around Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), strangers who meet at a mys- terious trial for a drug treatment that promises to fix any- thing about the mind with no complications or side effects. Things go a bit sideways from there. When I was presented with the opportunity to head the hair department on Maniac, I read the script and was intrigued, thinking this was something quite different, with a fantastic director, writer and cast. As department head, I was responsible for creating and overseeing every principal character, including Annie and Owen, Dr. James MANIAC THE LOOKS OF A K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), Dr. Azumi Fujita (Sonoya Mizuno), Dr. Greta Mantleray (Sally Field), Porter Milgrim (Gabriel Byrne), Ellie Landsberg (Julia Garner), Angelica Milgrim (Trudie Styler), Jed Milgrim (Billy Magnussen) and Adelaide (Jemima Kirke). Maniac takes the audience through many characters, rein- carnations and time periods. We go through the 1940s, 1950s, the '80s, and even a magical world of elves. It took some time to truly understand and wrap my head around the scope of it all and the massive undertaking it would be, given how many looks, changes and periods were involved. It turned out to be quite the task and joy, creating and reimagining new and different looks for multiple episodes. All of them proved to be fun and challenging and artistically satisfying. In particular, I really enjoyed creating looks for the 1940s. I love the sculptured hair and wardrobe, and everything's so rich and luxurious from head to toe. For that period, we wanted to make Emma's look very glamorous and femme fatale, which was achieved with old-fashioned roller sets combed into the period hairdo of the time. When Emma plays Linda, a nurse in 1990s Long Island, we wanted to achieve the effect of a character who had bleached and permed her own hair in the kitchen sink. Judy Chin, Department Head Make-up, was an amazing Photos courtesy of Netflix, except as noted B Y F R Í ð A A R A D Ó T T I R D E P A R T M E N T H E A D H A I R

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