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THE ARTISAN WINTER 2024 • 33 HAIR Continued from page 29 it was incredibly fine but also very delicate. We wanted it to be undetectable on the IMAX screen. Emily Blunt, portraying Kitty Oppenheimer, arrived with beautiful, blonde, below-shoulder-length hair. We cut Emily's hair and acclaimed colorist Brock Billings colored it darker, but not as dark as the actual Kitty's hair. We landed on a beautiful light brown, with the styling kept simplistic without fuss, allowing movement and life to show through. As Kitty ages, we decided against any visible graying, but instead brought up the length, using a fall through the back and spraying the hair with a colored spray to give the effect of color build-up; women block-coloring their hair to keep gray covered was common at the time. is also gave the hair a dullness and harshness that worked well. Robert Downey Jr., portraying Lewis Strauss, was ready for anything. So, we changed his front hairline, bringing it back, thinning out the top of his hair, leaving him with one-third of the amount of hair he naturally has. We bleached the hair through the top to lighten it. is gave us more control coloring it with a mixture of airbrushing and painting, achieving a darker gray earlier in his story and a white gray at the end. We styled it differently to show the passage of time, fluffy side parting evolving to slicked back. We had key hair stylist Ahou Mofid from start to finish, the best right hand an HOD could ask for. We struck gold in New Mexico with background hair supervisor Jennifer Jane smashing out many heads of background hair. Hair stylists Danielle Vigil, with her unmatched barbering skills and Heidi Baca, with her can- do attitude, were invaluable. In New Jersey, crowd hair coordinator JT Franchuk had every background talent ready to roll. Home in LA, background hair stylists Brittany Lester and Bia Iikhar kept busy with pre-cuts for background fittings; background hair supervisor Celeste Gonzales wrangled crowds and hired our Local 706 stylists. In the trailer to our right, we had hair stylist Meghan Heaney, with unwavering skill and support, and to our le, hair stylist Lydia Fantini, always setting her bar high. ese artists and many more are why we were able to accomplish the final results seen on screen. ank you! • Matt Damon (Leslie Groves) Robert Downey Jr. (Lewis Strauss) David Krumholtz (Isidor Rabi) Tom Conti (Albert Einstein) Dylan Arnold (Frank Oppenheimer) Director Christopher Nolan, Luisa Abel (center), and Jaime Leigh McIntosh (right) consult with Tom Conti, who portrays Albert Einstein Gary Oldman (Harry Truman)