Local 706 - The Artisan

Winter 2018

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THE ARTISAN WINTER 2018 • 51 1940s wartime on the beach, at sea and in the air... From the beginning, when Patricia DeHaney and I were having meetings with Christopher Nolan, it became clear that his vision was to make a film that was true to the era but not so structured that it was not accessible to a new and young audience that would learn the story of Dunkirk. We had a lot of real reference we could work from and we also worked side-by-side with costume designer Jeffrey Kurland to make sure we got the vision our director wanted. We began gathering research of British, French and German soldiers, military per- sonnel, medical volunteers and the many British citizens that came by boat to help rescue their boys. Every soldier needed to look battle-worn with engrained dirt that would look real, even on large IMAX screens. With our larg- est days having thousands of extras, the crowd background area took weeks to set up and Patricia DeHaney's team did haircuts on every single background actor. Shooting in all types of weather in the UK, France, the Netherlands and US, we maintained up to 4,000 haircuts thanks to the great, organized, skilled crew. While we were filming in France, the French system is different so our pre-call was shorter than usual on land, and our UK background supervisors had to finish peoples' looks on the large destroyer ships, as they sailed out to the set or on the beaches and the moles on which we were working. All the products we used were made specifically for Dunkirk by David Stoneman, which, as the majority of filming was in Europe, made the shipping of gallons of products much better for production and our budget. Prior to making tar, oil, sand, dust, etc., our supplier went to Dunkirk and got sample colors for us to work off and then each product had to be tested to make sure it worked for the looks we wanted in both the hair and skin. We had three types of tar LOCAL 706 CREW LUISA ABEL DEPT. HEAD MAKE-UP JAY WEJEBE KEY MAKE-UP ARTIST KIMBERLY FELIX MAKE-UP ARTIST PATRICIA DE HANEY DEPT. HEAD HAIR CHERYL DANIELS KEY HAIR STYLIST Photos by Melinda Sue Gordon © 2016 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

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