The lips were given a healthy pink glossy coating of Make Up For Ever. I accented Buster’s features with a Jean Paul Gautier Eyeliner, penciled in eyebrows with Tricia Sawyer, dusted the face with Benefit Georgia Peach powder and the cheek blush was Ben Nye Pink Cake. The supporting cast were all grounded in a more dirty dusty reality of the West.
#The ballad of buster scruggs cast skin#
Referencing the silent film cowboy Hoot Gibson, I wanted to give Buster a smooth finish to his skin that looked more theatrically using a pancake make-up. When speaking with the brothers, Cydney and I discussed bringing that early Hollywood cowboy look to the Buster Scruggs’ character in order to juxtapose his surroundings. A hair trigger shooter who sings his way from one town to the next being challenged as the notorious gunslinger Buster Scruggs. Our first story follows Buster Scruggs, played by Tim Blake Nelson ( O Brother, Where Art Thou ?). Being filmmakers each “episode” was more like a mini-film. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs being six different stories was new for the brothers and similar to shooting that of an episodic television show. It is a shot list bible and is an essential tool. Informing you as to angles and frame compositions so you know what you will be seeing and what will be expected of you. The brothers even go as far as having the entire show storyboarded prior to the first production meeting. It is rare that you would ever get an actor on the day they first work and in this case, you have usually scoured hundreds of reference photos and have been given approval for a very specific direction of hair style, facial hair, prosthetics, etc. The brothers are big fans of having all the characters created, critiqued and approved prior to shooting.
Getting answers and time to test with the actors allows for the efficiency on set. However, one of the great things about their films is that they tend to be very well planned in advance.
They don’t want to fuss with make-up and hair on set too much and are commonly restricted with budgets. They don’t want actors in the chair too long.
#The ballad of buster scruggs cast movie#
As organized and relaxing as a Coen brothers’ movie can be day-to-day, it is no exception to the normalcy of productions. Usually offbeat and slightly skewed from the norm, the brothers tend to have a magnificent ability to cast actors that are perfect for the roles they are playing and somehow already embody a persona that only sometimes needs to be enhanced by make-up and hair. They are certainly well awarded for developing characters on paper and then bringing them to life on film. One great thing about a Coen brothers’ movie is their appreciation for characters. Having recently worked with Cydney on HBO’s Olive Kitteridge, I was very excited to get started on what was sure to be a great adventure. Cydney Cornell was called upon to be Department Head Hair and has previously worked with the brothers on a number of films. Jean normally department heads the Coen brothers’ films but unfortunately was unavailable so I became the recipient of good fortune with the phone call. Make-up artist Jean Black first introduced me to the brothers on the film No Country for Old Men. When asked by the long-standing producer of the Coen brothers films Bob Graf if I would be interested in department heading The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the answer was immediately … ummmm, yes. These were some of the descriptive words first used to express to me the latest Coen brothers film in spring of 2017. Zoe Kazan … etc.” Coen brothers characters “A caravan on its way to the underworld … a singing cowboy. “A story of a lonely prospector played by the singer/songwriter Tom Waits shooting in the town of Telluride, Colorado, with a humorous and bloody ending.” A traveling carnival of two that ultimately ends unfairly for one of them.” “Harry Melling plays an armless and legless Shakespearean actor whose caretaker, the Impresario, is played by Liam Neeson. With Cydney Cornell | Department Head Hair Liam Neeson The Coen Brothers Create an American Western Anthologyīy Christien Tinsley | Department Head Make-up
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