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(Above): Lawrence Quon, hand washing muddy vintage costumes after an unexpected thunderstorm; (below) BG Costumer Tim Stone dressing dummies MOTIONPICTUREC O S T U M E R S .O R G 23 We had service issues with locations of where we are and the internet and so on, but I would say it's fun. It's challenging. Obviously, we know with sci-fi stuff that things break, rip, tear. You definitely have to MacGyver things. Sometimes as a Costumer, you don't like it, but it gets the job done. Do: Walton's costume is so interesting in learning all of the intricacies of it. It's always fun to learn about a costume that also has its stages that also fall into these collaborative efforts with other departments. I was kind of aware peripherally how much props was involved, but I didn't know until I took over the costume, and really did my due diligence to ask all the questions that I needed to from Delerna because she has spent so much time with that costume, and she knows Walton so well, so there's a shorthand with her. I'm just glad that I have had the experience with specialty pieces before to know to ask more things, so to speak, and so she gave me the lowdown of the order in which things went on, the differences in different pieces, knowing what Walton likes, and like how he has the one hat that he prefers and he's broken into that exactly the way that works. And he will immediately know if it's not the hero hat. I got a lot of time with Stephanie Harper, Annabel O'Hagan's character. I ended up taking her on a lot later, and she had a whole other side story that we filmed, and then this is the part where Natasha Henstridge was there. She played her mom in the scene, and that was so exciting to me because she is such an icon, as somebody who grew up watching her Species character. Then here she is in the flesh, and she's so sweet and so lovely, and they had a really nice storyline together, so it was really fun to be a part of that, too. How was it working with the costume team in the offices and workrooms and the other departments on this show? Kendall: We actually had the opportunity to participate in some of the fiings when we were geing into dressing some more complicated things that include armor. We would have the Set Costumers participate in some of the fiings, because they were able to point out things such as 'this is going to be an issue for us on set,' and we could fix it there in the fiing room and troubleshoot it together. We already knew how the costume components went, and then we were able to teach that to the other day players. We worked closely with Jackie Martinez, our BG Custom Made liaison, because so much was custom made for the show, and we were in constant communication with her. But to me, one of the most important crew members on the show are the Agers and Dyers because, anyone who has seen Season 1 knows that this is an apocalyptic wasteland in an alternate universe. It's very dusty and very dirty. We actually had Agers and Dyers come to set every morning. This became part of the routines. They had more crew available to come and dust the BG when we would be shooting at Melody Ranch. A lot of these wasteland scenes were at Melody Ranch where we had our offices as well, which meant that we didn't have to pull them away for a whole day. They could come help us dust things in the morning and get the aging really to where and how they wanted it, but then they could go back to their work and come to set as needed. The fact that they were working out of the same lot that we were shooting on was a luxury and I haven't had that before. It meant that our costumes were going to look that much beer and they were the