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54 makeupmania.com " when" does it take place? So it was important for us to follow a neutral path and not to explain the period of time. Looking into the past (fi rst episode), there is a character by the name of "Old Bill" who is played by the brilliant Michael Wincott. We fi nd "Dr. Ford" (Tony Hopkins) in discussion with his old friend. In fact, Old Bill was the second character created in the park next to "Dolores." When we reveal Old Bill to the audience, our objective was for the audience to immediately identify this as a classic robot you might fi nd at a Disneyland amusement park. Mixed with deteriorating rubber skin, movements that stutter and the lack of ability to impro- vise, Old Bill came to life. He was achieved with full silicone prosthetics, some old-fashioned Liquid Latex, an extensive coloration done with Endura Performance Paints. A heavy hand-laid beard that is intended to look like a very good but obviously false, a mustache and goatee fi nished it off. Hiroshi Yada assisted in the application and Old Bill is one of my per- sonal favorites in the show. One of the biggest ongoing hardships of the show was the painting of nude actors. Where to even begin? I'll start by explaining, it was a rare day if we didn't have a nude body to paint. We had diagnostic (where they examine the Hosts' performance), In-Take Rooms (where they bring in the daily dead), Repair and Maintenance (where they repair the Hosts), Cold Storage (where they dispose of the decommissioned), Pariah Brothel (Gold Sex Idols and Red Sex Guards who exist merely for guest's pleasure) and the occasional nude for a speckled-in sex scene. I commend the entire crew and Georgia's leadership in making this daily endeavor run smoothly and with the upmost professionalism. Did you know the average human body has 14-18 square feet of surface? If it takes 15 minutes to paint a face, in theory it should take 3-4 hours to paint a body. Understandably, we didn't have that kind of time. The point is, we covered a lot of skin; my guestimate is 11,200 square feet of fl esh throughout the show. In addi- tion, most of these performers nowadays "lack the hair down there." This was a concern for me because I wanted the Hosts of Westworld not to fall too deep into one fetish or perversion over another. Thus, the "Merkin Military of Westworld" began recruiting. Hundreds of merkins were created and fl oated for daily and disposable use. We kept the sizes respectable and the color range vast. Oh yes, the crew shirt slogans were fl ying! It's obvious that the Cold Storage bodies and the Pariah sex toys were painted but I am not sure if anyone realizes that every Host that sits or stands nude in the BG has a layer of make-up topped off with a little LORAC Tantillizer (Love this stuff) and of course, a merkin. In addition to the overwhelming amount of nude characters, we also had armies of BG. Every show has BG and some shows have large numbers and perhaps, I was naive about how TV works but we had an average of 750 extras per episode. This works out to be about 40 extras per day, every day for 10 months. Needless to say, we used hundreds of facial hairpieces,