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THE ARTISAN WINTER 2025 • 43 PHOTOS BY AARON RICKETTS/NETFLIX After 30 years in the film and television business, nothing surprises me until I got the call to turn Glenn Close into an ex-junkie and possessed grandmother! What? Who? Glenn Close?? Yes! I'm all in! First, we must start with Alberta/Glenn's journey. A former junkie living with her multi-racial family in an impoverished neighborhood, in a house where no one wanted to live in because it has a past, well, so does Alberta. A woman living with her daughter Ebony, played by Andra Day, and her three grandkids, all facing their own struggles while trying to heal from their past. Alberta struggles to heal from cancer and never leaves the house without a full face of make-up or one of her wigs. She tries to keep herself and her family on the path of righteousness. Little did she know, the devil was close by. HAIR B Y L I N D A F L O W E R S H A I R D E S I G N E R F O R G L E N N C L O S E SPECIAL MAKE-UP EFFECTS B Y J A S O N C O L L I N S S P E C I A L M A K E - U P E F F E C T S D E S I G N E R I was referred to The Deliverance producer from my good friend Douglas Noe, who had worked with director Lee Daniels on his previous film, e Butler. Douglas knew that the film would require a designer with a studio to accomplish the vast amount of looks for the show. I always appreciate the confidence of my fellow Local 706 artists as that trust is never taken lightly. When approaching e Deliverance, I wanted a very natural and realistic esthetic as the film was based on a true story and I knew the real horror would be coming from the drama of the family dynamic as they faced the supernatural. In my initial meetings with the director, he was quite hesitant with using prosthetics as this was his first "horror" film and didn't want anything to look fake or out of place. I assured him my approach would be rooted in reality and once I had his confidence, I set out to design the film. Continued on page 44 Continued on page 48 Continued on page 44 MAKE-UP B Y C H L O E S E N S M A K E - U P A R T I S T F O R G L E N N C L O S E To find the character of Alberta, Glenn and I had multiple conversations and started our journey of testing to find the right balance. Alberta's 'look' was in the details of a hard-lived life. Her rocky relationship with her daughter Ebony was scarred by years of being a junkie and neglect, now on a religious path of redemption. All these elements are vital in character work as Alberta's make-up was her armor. Alberta is going through chemotherapy yet still puts a lot of effort into her appearance. Starting from the top down, her eyebrows are part of her trademark look. I thinned out her natural brows where needed and made a brow stencil to assure continuity, then filled the stencil with a felt tip brow pen. We went through multiple tests to find the right skin tones, eyebrow shapes, lipsticks and finishes. e earlobes were a detail that Glenn really wanted, years of heavy earrings