Lily James Talks With ‘Pam & Tommy’ Makeup and Hair Designers About The “Transformative” Power of Hulu Series and Pam Anderson’s Return to Give Her a New Sense of “Liberty” – Process

Head of makeup, David Williams, when he first heard about the Hulu series pam and tommyHe did what he had never done before: He quit what he was already working on to follow someone else.

“In my heart, from the moment I picked up the phone, I knew it was a turning point. “It’s going to change all of our careers he’s had,” Williams said. “It’s one of those games that changed people on screen. It transformed us. It transforms everyone involved in its process because there was something special about it from the very beginning. And you will feel it on set.”

The action takes place in the Wild West in the early days of the Internet. pam and tommy Based on the incredible real life story of Pamela Anderson (Lily James) and Tommy Lee (Sebastian Stan) sex tape. The video, stolen from the couple’s home by a disgruntled contractor (Seth Rogen), turned from underground VHS curiosity to the perfect cultural obsession when it hit the internet in 1997. The original eight-episode limited series has since explored the intersection of privacy, technology and celebrity. It’s the start of our current reality TV era, with millions of stolen tapes that only two viewers should have.

From the beginning, Williams saw the series as an “opportunity and platform” for her hairdressers and makeup artists, including head of hair department Barry Lee Mois and special effects designer Jason Collins, to “take our craft to the next level”. We do it, and maybe some manufacturers have a little more respect for what we do.”

Like Williams, Moss was excited by the idea of ​​recreating Anderson’s ’90s look with James. But there have also been reasons for tension in the past. The truth was that if pam and tommyThe actor’s transformations – and James’s in particular – didn’t work, and neither did the show. “When you started diving into him and looking at scenarios and seeing all these moments in his life that we had to recreate and deliver, I immediately freaked out,” Mo said. For example, this could go terribly wrong. It could be a Halloween costume. It may sound like Lily is lying down.’ It was something I never wanted to do.”

Also at the head of the “shared shit” was Collins, who admitted that makeup artists and hairdressers can only “characterize” a character. Fortunately, the special effects designer’s fears were quickly subdued when she met James and realized the level of mastery and dedication the actor brought to the project. “These are inspiring moments when I was doing what I’ve been doing and want to do since I was a kid, doing magic tricks with people and human characters,” she says. “You can try to give the player or the player their tools, but what? [she] I did it, now it’s cold, I’m just thinking.”

In a recent interview with Williams, Moses and Collins as part of Deadline’s video series The Process, James talks about the nerves he was born with. pam and tommyAnd the hair and makeup collaborators helped build confidence that she could play a role. “With the support work I did, when I first saw myself in the mirror, I was trying to understand and act that way. [Anderson]”I didn’t know myself,” he says, “and feeling like a real actor was the most fascinating thing I’ve ever done.”

“It’s like you can’t see yourself,” adds James. “You will change.”

In conversations with James, Mo, Williams, and Collins, he completely eliminated the work of Stan, Rogen, and Nick Offerman, who played Uncle Milt, as well as the work that led to James’s transformation. They discuss James Anderson’s biggest decisions along the way and the biggest challenges of making prosthetics and camera tests, the challenge of capturing some of Anderson’s “favorite nose” Williams Maxima. “How the project allowed Collins to heal the art. “decision nozzles” of prostheses and much more.

James, on the other hand, spoke of the first moment Anderson felt like he had clicked on a picture, the first star photos that hit the internet after an early critical response to the casting, and seeing “a new kind of freedom, body confidence and courage.” ” She took a break from the show.

pam and tommy It was critically acclaimed on Hulu in February. Robert Siegel and entertainer Dave Devinsent wrote the series starring Taylor Schilling, Andrew Daisy Clay, Peppy Sonuga, Spencer Granez, Mojan Marno, Fred Hatchinger, Paul Ben-Victor, and others (Craig Gillespie).I’m Tony) Directly. Executive producers Siegel, DeVincentis and Gillespie, Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver and Alex McKayt for Point Gray and Dave Franco, Megan Ellison, Sue Nigel and Ali Krug for Annapurna with Chip Vuchelinci, Di Chip

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