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38 • THE ARTISAN FALL 2017 38 • THE ARTISAN FALL 2017 Top: Kristin Scott Thomas as Clementine Churchill with Oldman as Winston Churchill. Above: The real Churchills in 1941. Photo courtesy of Popper Photo/Getty Images. Originally, director Joe Wright wanted the wig made in UK. I usually design and order the wig, myself. I con- sider it is a part of the sculpture. Hairline and hair shape finalize the character's look and it is important element, especially if it is the likeness make-up. I have been working with Bob Kretschmer and Diana Choi. We decided to use English lace front and mixture of Baby European hair and Angora. Churchill had fine white hair. His hair was ginger when he was young. As he got older, it became whiter. I wanted to make this wig thin and fine instead of make it thick enough to cover the connection and pleats of the lace. They did amazing job. We used this wig for the first three test make-up, then Ivana Primorac who is make-up and hair designer for the movie, brought a wig from UK. She helped us a lot to start up in London. Gary really liked the first wig, but Joe insisted to make another one in UK. We decided to bring this wig just in case to London. After the first UK test, Gary had discussion with Joe and producer Doug Urbanski, then decided to order more wigs from LA. I redressed the first wig and shooting started with it while I flew back to LA to make four more wigs. I flew back to London to fit the new one. In LA, as Diana and Bob made more wigs, I cut and dressed them, then shipped them to London. The hair was set with good old VO5 hair con- ditioning and hairdressing mixed with Royal Crown grease and touch of hair spray. The wig was applied and maintained beautifully by Lucy. She used KD151 to glue down the lace and she stitched the nape area to the appliance with yarn so it won't pop up during the shoot. That was gentle solution for the wig too. I went back to DDT to do some works. There were several things I wanted to improve on the make-up. I was studying photos from test make-up. I was feeling there was something missing and something I could do to make Gary looked more like Churchill. That was literally an over-the- weekend job. I went to DDT on Friday, started to sculpt new cheek pieces. That was the last chance to change any- thing. I changed the shape of them and the placement of the edge since the cheek piece had a wrinkling issue under " As I started to work on the project, it was almost relearning about this job. "