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he relationshi of Macbeth Denel ashington and Lady Macbeth Frances McDormand is the bloody, beating heart of the story Conuring Macbeth meant consid- ering the hysicality of the actor as well as the role At our rst tting I brought a sketch that I had for him hen he looked at it, I said, Yes, I am asking you to wear a skirt, but I romise it wont feel like one He thought that was funny Okay, when can we get started He was totally game Macbeths garments reuired many ttings and adustments It couldnt be too snug because he had a lot of sitting, moement, and sword ghting to do ohres had to make sure he was comfortable I did not want it to feel like he was in a costume, she elains, ecet one time and that was intentional After the murder he feels like he doesnt belong in his clothes because hes wearing King Duncans cae with gold stars He wears the dead kings mantle for one scene after taking the throne, shedding it when he meets the mur- derers e neer see him in it again It d be a m im t b we n d textu . We n d • geo• try • • s- s. —Mƒ y Zoph s Costume designer Mary ohres heled bring the layers to life and worked at a breakneck ace Joel Coen and I had our rst meeting in July I would say there were about black- and-white hotograhs that he and D Bruno Delbonnel had assembled It was ery much the language of the lmRoman and Gothic archways and staircases fading into shadow and stained-glass windows hey were the isual beats of the moie, but there were ery few shots of eole with clothing on he rst thing to do for a Shakeseare adatation is to decide uon the era and lace Contemorary roductions might ut he Merchant of enice in enice, California or ortray Hamlet as a frustrated high school rom king e werent locked into any time, but we were insired by the medieal eriod when Macbeth really lied, in the th century, not when Shakeseare wrote the lay he sare, architectural sets directly in uenced her thinking from the beginning My rst reaction when Joel showed me the minimalist, grahic, and linear hotograhs that insired him was that we needed ery seci c silhouettes that are as grahic as these images to occuy these saces hat was our launching o oint It was a matter of nding those shaes Photos: pple T, The Traged o aceth Denel Washington as aceth Frances cDormand as ad aceth 28 THE COSTUME DESIGNER | SPRING 2022