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44 • THE ARTISAN SUMMER 2024 I didn't know all of the amazing cast when I first signed on to the series, but I knew I was going to be working with Kristen Wiig and running the department. Allison Janney and Laura Dern had also been cast and as we were prepping the show, the cast list kept unfolding. All of a sudden, we had Josh Lucas, Ricky Martin, Leslie Bibb, Kaia Gerber, Bruce Dern and the incredible, iconic Carol Burnett. All these amazing performers made this job even better! Running the department was quite a feat, and I knew I would need a lot of help from a lot of talented artists. Since there were so many A-list women in the cast, everyone who joined the team was very strong. e wonderful Simone Almekias-Siegl was Laura Dern's personal artist and Marja Webster was Carol Burnett's personal artist. I could not have done this without Marissa Lafayette, my assistant department head, who was responsible for Leslie Bibb and Kaia Gerber, and my two co-keys, Kenny Niederbaumer and Marie Del Prete. Kenny worked with Ricky Martin, Josh Lucas, Mindy Cohn and Julia Duffy, while Marie worked with Allison Janney, Claudia Ferri and Amber Chardae Robinson. We leaned hard into the bigger, more polished look of Palm Beach, which included immaculate nails, deep tans and beautiful make-up. Jessica Johnson from Le Luxe tanned Kristen Wiig weekly, alongside a couple of the other cast members. e nails were also a huge part of the look, and Vanessa McCullough and Lisa Wong were our incredible manicurists who kept the nails of all the ladies perfect. We created lookbooks for the background, because it was very important that everyone in the show was made-up, and in period-correct make-up and nails. Background supervisor Robert Vega and many super-talented 706 artists translated all of the looks that we had created for the main cast, onto the hundreds of background players each day, which kept the appearance of the show seamless. On the men's side, the period Palm Beach look is achieved mostly through hair and facial hair. For instance, Josh Lucas' sideburns really helped to create the time period, and it happened to be a feature he was also using on the Yellowstone shoot, which was filming at the same time. We had some flashbacks with Kristen that took us back to her past life 15-20 years prior, and in those shots, we also needed to cover Josh's sideburns with silicone transfers to communicate the time period accurately. We had one particular scene with Ricky Martin, where they wanted him to wear a speedo, but he has quite a lot of tattoos! On most shows when someone is covered in tattoos, we might ask the costume team to please cover them with their costume but here we decided to lean into it and cover his tattoos completely. Ricky is so wonderful to work with that that always makes a difficult job so much easier. I had worked with the amazing department head hair and Kristen's personal stylist, Karen Bartek for several years, and without her stellar hair styles and the frames her team created for our work, the looks wouldn't have been what they were. I truly can't imagine doing Palm Royale with anyone else. I want to extend an enormous thank you to Marissa Lafayette, Kenny Niederbaumer, Marie Del Prete, Simone Almekias-Siegel, Marja Webster, Robert Vega, Vanessa McCullough, Lisa Wong and all of the incredible Local 706 artists who came out to day play with us on this fantastic journey. And last but not least, to Kristen Wiig, thank you for your humor, heart and endless energy. • MAKE-UP Continued from page 43 HAIR Continued from page 43 When assembling my dream team, I knew that everyone would need to be very strong with wigs, and we had a lot of doubles. e majority of our incredibly craed wigs were created by the fantastic Natascha Ladek, with some additional wigs made on the fly by John Blake, as needed. Kristen's character is younger than many of the high society ladies she is trying to befriend at the club, and so her look was slightly less put together, with hair inspired by iconic 1960's actress Sharon Tate. We had five different wigs ready for the quick changes in Kristen's look that were needed daily based on the script, including four blonde wigs and L-R: Kristen Wiig and Josh Lucas as Douglas Dellacorte Simmons