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THE ARTISAN WINTER 2024 • 25 PHOTOS COURTESY OF APPLE together. This was an easy task, as I have met and worked with all these incredible and talented make-up artists throughout the years. My crew in the trailer consisted of key make-up Beate Petruccelli, second Ned Neidhardt, third Tracey Anderson, personal make-up to Mr. Robert De Niro (Carla White), personal make-up to Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio (Siân Grigg), FX make-up supervisor Jason Hamer, FX make-up Hiro Yada, key crowd make-up Lydia Milars, crowd make-up Nacoma Whobrey, and about 20 additional background artists. Our background actors were mostly made up in big tents in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. I was lucky to have Lydia aboard because she is an expert when it comes to managing big background numbers. Her work is very efficient, beautifully detailed, and she's a great organizer. The tent had to be designed specially to accommodate both hair and make-up for hundreds of background actors daily, while at the same time, complying with our strict COVID guidelines. Lydia argued for wood board flooring and heaters/air conditioners, which was a great move. Otherwise, due to the constant change of weather, our up to 20 additional artists would have been walking around in clay and mud most of the time, sweating or freezing in the fickle prairie climate. Before heading out to Oklahoma, I learned that we would all get our COVID vaccines at the Osage Nation upon our arrival. What a relief, as we shot this movie during the peak of the COVID pandemic. Continuous testing and self-checks in the morning were a must. Also, face masks, goggles, and face shields were required to be worn by crew members interacting with the actors at all times. Marianne Bower ran our incredible research department. Even though we had done our own extensive research at the beginning of the project, there were always certain figures that were hard for us to find online. In those particular cases, Marianne was our answer. Kay Georgiou and I, meanwhile, have a longstanding working relationship dating back to the late 1990s. I believe that we have a very similar work ethic and style, which of course, made our collaboration so much easier. Her team consisted of key hair stylist Jameson Eaton, crowd key hair stylist Gail Hensley, hair stylists Jimmy Goode, Melissa Yonkey, Deborah Ball, Mary Everette & Zoey Bolton, hair stylist to Leonardo DiCaprio (Kathy Blondell), hair stylist to Robert De Niro (Jon Carter), and Jerry Popolis. Plus our great make-up and hair production assistant Casey Pratt. As most of our characters were based on actual people, the actors' and actresses' hair was cut and styled to each character's likeness, involving wigs, extensions, pieces and coloring. Make- up consisted of shading, toning, and at times, adding mustaches and beards. The Osage became the richest people in the world per capita once they obtained the mineral rights for their given land and found oil beneath it. Naturally, their styles followed suit. On one hand, they were influenced by French or European fashion and lifestyle, and on the other hand, they stayed close to their own traditions and rituals. It was quite common to see ladies with a high-fashion bob and fancy make-up, dressed in expensive French clothing and finally wrapped in a tribal blanket. Needless to say, the amount of wigs Kay had to L-R: Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone