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ERYN KRUEGER MEKASH, MATTHEW MUNGLE AND PATRICIA DEHANEY DISCUSS MAKE-UP, PROSTHETICS AND HAIR My phone rang mid-April 2019 while I was working on Ratched. The caller ID was one I hadn't seen in a while; Diana Pokorny, who is a very successful producer that I'd worked for years ago on My Sister's Keeper. I answered and she told me about her latest project, Hillbilly Elegy with Ron Howard directing. "Yes... I'm listening!" I had three brilliant women in my corner: Diana, Kate Biscoe, and Patti Dehaney. Kate wasn't available to do Amy Adams for this and she and Patti put together a short list and I was on it. My résumé was sent, a few emails later, and the job was mine! I quickly read the bestselling book that the fi lm is based on, and was told that Matthew Mungle, Glenn Close's longtime make-up artist, made pieces for her and an initial test had been done. I was stepping into some big shoes; Matthew is so talented. I highly respect him, as well as Diana, Patti, Kate, and working under Ron Howard would be a dream come true. While I began my research and script breakdown (screenplay written by Vanessa Taylor who wrote The Shape of Water), I received costume designer Virginia Johnson's look book in the mail. All of the actual people were in it, and I saw there were different time periods for Bev, the author JD Vance's mother. Amy Adams would be playing her. I defi nitely wanted to widen Amy's nose, and after chatting with her, she said she would be happy to give it a go in tests at the end of May in Atlanta, Georgia. Dave Anderson of AFX made me some small transfers for Amy to wear and along with the 1997-in-Ohio make-up look and aging and sun damage refl ecting the hard life that Bev has been through 15 years later, I seemed to be dialing in how I thought Bev should look. Patti Dehaney has worked with Amy several times, most recently, prior to Hillbilly Elegy on Vice where she won the Oscar for Best Make-Up and Hair. The wigs are outstanding on Amy, as well as Glenn; we were very excited to see all of our ideas come together. We all wanted Amy and Glenn to look very different from other roles they have played. I knew that I would be doing Amy and Glenn; I T H E M A K E - U P BY ERYN KRUEGER MEKASH DEPARTMENT HEAD MAKE-UP ERYN KRUEGER MEKASH, AND PATRICIA DEHANEY PROSTHETICS AND HAIR My phone rang mid-April 2019 while I was working on . The caller ID was one I hadn't seen in a while; Diana Pokorny, who is a very successful producer that . I answered Hillbilly Elegy with Ron Howard directing. "Yes... I'm listening!" I had three brilliant women in my corner: Diana, Kate Biscoe, and Patti Dehaney. Kate wasn't available to do Amy Adams for this and she and Patti put together a short list and I was on it. My résumé was sent, a few emails later, and the job was mine! I quickly read the bestselling book that the fi lm is based on, and was told that Matthew Mungle, Glenn Close's longtime make-up artist, made pieces for her and an initial test had been done. I was stepping into some big shoes; Matthew is so talented. I highly respect him, as well as Diana, Patti, Kate, and working under Ron Howard THE MAKINGS OF A Amy Adams as Bev