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42 • THE ARTISAN WINTER 2019 of two wigs we had built, depending on the decade we were shooting for the day. Domenick Lombardozzi was beautifully transformed into Fat Tony. The great FX make-up artist Mike Marino and his team applied his prosthetics. When these amazing artists fi nished their job, I stepped in to apply whichever wig we needed for the decade we were shooting that day. Days could get crazy when we would start in one decade and end in another. I couldn't have been luckier with our female cast. Besides being totally amazing, they were open to all the looks we had planned. Again—the wigs!!!! The tremendous time that we saved by setting and styling the hair in advance was truly a life-saver. My team all brought years of experience. Among our stylists, I brought in several career hairdressers who were more than 70 years old, proving that we are never too old or too good to learn from one another. Along with their peerless skills and experience, they brought diagrams from actual period roller sets that I directed my team use for all the women. Anyone who's ever worked with Marty knows that he's a stickler for detail. He was emphatic that the background characters' (BGs') look had to be accurate. Without fail, each day when I fi nally completed the cast, I would run to BG holding. I was constantly amazed at the work that was being pumped out by the BG hair stylists. I knew that if something was not right, Marty would see it and point it out. I never wanted to let him down for trusting me to carry out his vision. In a movie full of bad guys with guns, my heroes held blow dryers. Truly, it was my team that made me look good! Josh Gericke, an amazingly talented young hair stylist, helped me in the trailer every day with his beautiful work on the beautiful women I kept putting in his chair. Gary English kept me giggling and was responsible for managing and staffi ng the multitudes of hair stylists we employed on a daily basis. And I was—and will always be—so thankful for Nicki Ledermann and her brilliant make-up team who cheered on this new New Yorker. Among the countless new experiences and nuggets of wisdom that I took away from this job, the most important is to be fearless and trust yourself. After that, my secret to success is collaboration and working as a team. Raise each other up to be better and to teach each other. To me, teaching someone is the best lesson of learning. I would always tell people to look at and ask questions of the production designer, the make-up designer, and the costume designer. We all are on the same team and have a part to do to create one heck of an amazing cohesive painting! •