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40 • THE ARTISAN FALL 2022 took that as a sign of success. His three silicone facial appliances, three hairpieces, and upper and lower false teeth/plumpers seemed to fool them. Likewise, the aging didn't seem to distract from Ben Foster's powerful emotional portrayal either, but enhanced the performance according to reviews. I always wanted to be able to hide my work in plain sight, affecting a character change while not calling attention to the work I was doing, in service of the story without creating a distraction of artifice and fakery. The make-up work in The Survivor, coupled with Ben Foster's incredible performance, is the dream job in the realm of realistic human character make-up work that I'd always wished to get a chance at doing. I'm grateful for Ben Foster's trust and support from Lone Survivor, our first of four movies and 10 years ago, to now with The Survivor. I'm also grateful for the contributions of the small team of top artists I worked with to help me bring this movie make-up to life and to a storytelling level that elicits major emotional reactions from the audience. The Survivor is work that I am proud of and happy to have created. • to flatten out his muscles to look nutritionally deficient. For make-up coloration, I used sickly yellows and blues for those malnourished stages versus the reds and browns utilized for contouring when he was healthy as a pro boxer. This was a very intense but emotionally rewarding work experience. The legendary director Barry Levinson hit the filmmaking scene 40 years ago with Diner (1982), and The Survivor marked Mr. Levinson's 40th film. I studied Mr. Levinson when I was a student at NYU Film School some 30 years ago, so it was gratifying to be working with him. I also studied under Dick Smith with his professional make-up course, and this project was very much an extension of the teachings of that great make-up master who would turn 100 this year. When the movie started playing at film festivals, critics remarked on how unrecognizable Ben Foster is in his role of Harry Haft; they talked about the 62 pounds that Ben lost to be an emaciated Nazi prisoner and the weight he put back on to be the muscular heavyweight fighter and more weight gain for his aging. Happily, they did not mention the fact that Ben Foster was wearing eight appliances for his regular daily make-up, and I Top row, l-r: Harry Haft molds table; Justin Staff ord, wigmaker. Center row, l-r: Haft boxing; Annamaria Dunai, hair stylist; Sasha Camacho Van Dyke eyebrows. Bottom: Make-up touchup. Photos courtesy of Jamie Kelman.