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62 • THE ARTISAN WINTER 2020 And we recreated 10 actors to look like real-life movie stars. All iconic and the actors did not look like them. All out of kit and without prosthetics. Ninety-three wigs. No CGI. The Quentin Way—because we love making movies! Additionally, we had several commercials and advertise- ments we shot to be used on television screens, movie posters and billboards in the fi lm. We also did two epi- sodes of Dalton's TV episodes. Quentin was adamant while shooting Lancer that we approach it as shooting a Spaghetti Western in 1969 so when we watch the fi lm, it feels we are watching Lancer until we break the fourth wall. It had to look realistic for 1969 and we did all make-up, facial hair, hair and wigs as such. Leonardo DiCaprio's and Brad Pitt's characters are fi ctional. They showcased the difference between an aver- age guy that lived true to himself and the old Hollywood establishment trying to stay relevant. Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Rick Dalton, and Al Pacino's Marvin Schwarz, were given a more traditional make-up, reminiscent of old school Hollywood. With the younger crowd and Manson family members, we went for a minimalistic, unkempt look. After we got the casting email, we emailed all the girls: "Do not shave. ANYTHING. Not your armpits or legs and please do not pluck your eyebrows! It all has to be hairy and natural." The poor girls all had to wear long-sleeved gowns to events while we were shooting. The Musso & Frank Grill scene was a prime oppor- tunity to showcase patrons of this landmark Hollywood restaurant. Men and women there are all very polished and beautifully coiffed. It portrays the more glamorous look of the days of Marilyn Monroe and Rock Hudson— beautiful people, perfectly packaged. Then when we go outside, we see scruffy hippies walking down Hollywood Boulevard, barefoot with their hair undone. You instantly feel different without quite knowing why. For the back- ground actors, we tried to show the Hollywood establish- ment; the older generation with a little more eyeliner, colored eye shadow and frosted lips and their once-a-week visit to the hair parlour; nothing bounces like a wet set! As opposed to the hippies with no make-up, armpit hair and would "rather die than be caught with clean hair look"! When it came to the men's hair, it would have been too obvious just to show the difference between main- stream culture and counterculture using short hair versus long hair. The men who came of age in the '50s often still used shiny products like Brylcreem, which can ruin a costume, so we did a lot of wet look on the old school Hollywood men, by mixing Leonor Greyl Eclait Naturel and Huile Secret de Beaute. LEONARDO DICAPRIO AS RICK DALTON Sian Grigg, make-up, and Kathy Blondell, hair, were per- sonals for Leonardo DiCaprio and subtly showed Rick Dalton's story of a down-and-out alcoholic B actor strug- gling with obsolescence vs. the slightly more hip Dalton who came back from Italy with a chili pepper hot wife. They took him through recreations of time-correct TV series and commercials from the time i.e., Lancer, where he had to sport a huge phony mustache and longer hair to look more "like a hippie" per the show's director's request, not much to Rick's liking. It had to look realistic for 1969 and we did all make-up, Leonardo DiCaprio's and Brad Pitt's characters are fi ctional. They showcased the difference between an aver- age guy that lived true to himself and the old Hollywood establishment trying to stay relevant. Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Rick Dalton, and Al Pacino's Marvin Schwarz, were given a more traditional make-up, reminiscent of old With the younger crowd and Manson family members, we went for a minimalistic, unkempt look. After we got the casting email, we emailed all the girls: "Do not shave. ANYTHING. Not your armpits or legs and please do not pluck your eyebrows! It all has to be hairy and natural." The poor girls all had to wear long-sleeved gowns to The Musso & Frank Grill scene was a prime oppor- tunity to showcase patrons of this landmark Hollywood restaurant. Men and women there are all very polished and beautifully coiffed. It portrays the more glamorous look of the days of Marilyn Monroe and Rock Hudson— Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth