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44 • THE ARTISAN WINTER 2023 Damien's eye for detail is extraordinary and his involvement in not only the character design process but the background as well, individually designed with a specific purpose in mind, whether it be two background in a scene or 800, meant we were heavily involved in the background casting process, so much so that we were helping to find people ourselves that could fit the part. This also meant that every single background actor would need to be processed through the fittings schedule before their shoot day. Babylon had everything from prim and proper high- society Hearst party guests with conservative hair styles, including Marion Davies with make-up artist Cale Thomas expertly covering and drawing in her pencil thin brows and Hearst himself, to face-painted clowns on stilts, pioneer saloon patrons with grimy facial hair to 800 bloody, sweaty 15th-century soldiers in battle, from outrageously excessive party people letting their freak flags fly, to creators of old Hollywood, crew members with deep set grime and sweat, bloodied cage fighting broads, Siamese twins, a rat-eating muscle man and his seedy underbelly audience to classic moviemakers and 1950s moviegoers. Babylon truly has a little bit of everything! • Jovan Adepo as Sidney Palmer