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MOTIONPICTUREC O S T U M E R S .O R G 15 for my first distant hire project. But the most fun I've had was the Untitled Trey Parker/ Matt Stone project (Whitney Springs). Working on the set of the creators of South Park, the entire crew had plenty of laughs." A large portion of Voght's credits include uniform shows such as S.W.A.T. and SEAL Team, so he is well practiced with an eye for detail when it comes to tactical shows. "I think that one of the challenges of being on a uniform-heavy show is the time it takes to dress actors or background head to toe and how tedious all the pieces of some uniforms can be. Doing your research for whatever uniforms are involved is a huge help." After working in the industry for a long time, one can start to feel like it is mundane or unrewarding work and as Voght tells us, his experience of "having grown up around the industry my whole life and working on some big shows like S.W.A.T. and Westworld fairly early in my set career, I found that I was a little jaded with the industry. That was until I was talking with a non-industry friend one day that was so excited when I told them I was around helicopters and explosions on a day-to-day basis. It really puts in perspective that the projects we work on and the things we do are really unique, especially to someone who may be sitting in an office at a 9-to-5 job." Voght's goals in this career are "to continue working on projects with good people," and says, "a crew that gets along well can really make a difficult shoot feel like it's much more bearable." As far as dream projects, Voght has aspirations to work in the Western genre. "Working at American and hearing all of Luster's stories about The Duke (John Wayne) really gave me the itch to work on a period Western. I got close with Westworld and Yellowstone got me the closest to a Western so far, even though it was contemporary, but I still want that feather in my cap, so hopefully one day it'll happen. Westerns are always in the rotation of films and TV, so maybe things will fall into place for me. "One piece of advice I'd give is to ask questions when you're unsure of something. Don't be afraid to speak up, there's a lot of industry slang on set that can sound like a completely different language at first." Monkeying around the Fox Costume Department circa 1996