Below: Jamie Kelman
and Ben Foster
From top: The real Harry Haft reference; aging Ben
Foster (bottom right) as Haft; Art Sakamoto makes
teeth; Jamie Kelman sculpts Harry.
and practice the proper voice dialect for Polish-born Harry Haft,
and Ben wisely wanted to practice while wearing the dentures
to incorporate them into his performance from the outset. This
worked out so well that when Ben had to record dialogue after
filming was completed, he needed to wear his false teeth to do
the proper voice!
With Ben's brow area, we changed enough of the skull bone
there between the zygomatic process and the supraorbital ridge,
that the silicone appliances needed to overlap and cover the
outside halves of Ben Foster's eyebrows. We replaced those
covered brow hairs with small delicate hand-tied lace eyebrow
hairpieces made by Sasha Camacho Van Dyke.
The signature brown wavy curly hair of Harry Haft was
excellently recreated as wonderful wigs made by Justin Stafford.
Justin started his career making 'Scheitels,' which are wigs for
Jewish women. Jewish hair is quite specific and Justin is a master
of that realm. Several hair stylists would go on to work on styling
and applying Justin's wigs for filming. Annamaria Dunai was the
main wig hair stylist/artist in Budapest, and for the US portion
