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THE ARTISAN WINTER 2021 • 23 Photos courtesy of Netfl ix H A I R S T Y L I N G BY ADRUITHA LEE BY ADRUITHA LEE H A I R S T Y L I N G BY ADRUITHA LEE HILLBILLY ELEGY realized pretty quickly I needed a strong department head assistant who was capable of doing beauty, prosthetics, airbrushing, and tattoo cover. I discussed Jamie Hess with Matthew; she worked for him for many years and had met Glenn several times because of his long relationship with her. Gabe Basso, who plays the adult JD, is a big guy with big tattoos. A full sleeve and several other large tattoos, as well as fi nger tattoos needed to be covered daily and she was comfortable taking this on double-teaming with our third Atlanta-based make-up artist, Devin Morales, who also did Haley Bennett for me. I orchestrated a very precise application and timing with Jamie so that our actors wouldn't be waiting long for the others to be ready. Glenn's application started in wig prep with Patti, then she came to us. Jamie applied the right ear and I applied the left. While Jamie painted Glenn's hands, I started to apply the nose. As soon as I got the nose glued down, Amy would come in for wig prep with Patti. I painted Glenn's prosthetics and face with PPI Skin Illustrators and Greg Cannom's Tuttle Creme make- up adding age spots, blotchiness, freckles, ruddiness, veins, as well as a scrub of light brown eyeliner and mascara and a bluish pink-tinted lip balm. Glenn's nose was silicone encapsulated with Super Baldiez and her ears were gelatin. Glenn would then trade spots with Amy in Patti's chair and I would start Amy's prosthetics. Dave Anderson made a vacuform of Amy's face from her life cast (and thanks to Chris Gallaher for lending us the copy of Amy's head he had, so AFX could start right away in prep as Amy was out of town) and I could precisely add dots along her mid nose line with red pencil through the vacuform, as well as two dots on each side. The transfers were applied separately and prepped with diluted Pros-Aide and were about the size of a thumbnail; I poked a hole at the end of the transfer so I could see the red dot on her skin and laid it down without any Pros- Aide on the skin as Amy's skin is practically pore-free and any additional layers would make it look lumpy. I fi gured this out day one when the transfer took on a lumpy un-Amy-like texture. Glenn Close as Mamaw