8/15/2023 0 Comments Joker make up![]() ![]() It was kind of like a dance in the makeup chair. Heath would contort his face while I was laying makeup on it so it would look like it was lived in. ![]() So when he looks in the mirror, he can believe what his reflection is. You can only hope in some small way to help his performance. I had to let my hand go and let things blur and drip and be craggy.Īnd Heath really helped me find that, the great actor he was. And I had to force myself to turn a corner and realize that imperfection was perfection in this design. The first few stabs at it for me - it was too clean. As a makeup artist, you are trained to seek perfection. Heath and I started playing around with things. Does he sleep in his makeup? Does he wash his hair? This Joker, he doesn’t change his clothes. Chris wanted everything to be organic in that film. We wanted to make it blurry, distorted and disturbing. ![]() I flew to London and started to talk with Chris Nolan, and we started playing with some makeup. I did five or six different clown makeups, painted hair, with the scars, the whole thing. Then I started doing some sketches - overlays of Heath’s headshot. You read the script first and you try to understand the character. John Caglione earned an Oscar for his work on Dick Tracy (1990) as well as a nomination for The Dark Knight. Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (Courtesy Warner Bros.) ![]()
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