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agent whose hair Paula Ashby, the Department
Head Hair, styled to suit the '70s FBI vibe, short
and neat. Fincher wanted him to be a bit thinner so
I shaded his cheeks and gave him a strong jaw line
using tattoo color with a dye brush and spatula
flicking shading that could withstand the humidity
and sweat of the Pittsburgh summer. I felt he was
too young and innocent, so I painted dark circles
under his eyes that got progressively darker as the
season progressed and his character flirts with the
dark side.
The second is Holden's older mentor/sidekick,
Bill Tench, who Fincher wanted to be gray with
white walls a la Robert Mitchum. Paula first had
to gray his hair, then cut an unkempt flat top to
go with his unrefined personality.
