Check out another featurette from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. This one is about how they created Caesar Flickerman's look for the film. Stanley Tucci, Make-up supervisor Ve Neill and Hair Department head Linda Flowers are featured in this closer look at crafting Caesar's distinctive fabulousness.
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Photo thanks to Allure Magazine Makeup artist Ve Neill has served as makeup department head for all of the Hunger Games movie adaptations. Neill told EW that she’s consumed with work on the The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. “It’s going to be pretty spectacular. Julianne Moore is on with us now as President Coin and she’s great. We have quite a few new characters who’ve joined us,” she hinted. “They’re all wonderful to work with. Jennifer [Lawrence] and Josh [Hutcherson] are absolute dolls. It’s nice to have a group of actors who enjoy coming to work.”
What’s next in the Hunger Games movies and how do you help tell the story through makeup?
We’re going into the third book, which is when they go to war. You’re going to see a lot more wartime stuff. They’re going to go into district 13, which we’ve never seen and nobody thought existed. These people have been living underground, so you’re going to see a lot of that. Everybody is pretty plain. There’s not a lot of exotic looking stuff in the third movie. In the fourth movie, we go into The Capitol again and you’ll start to see some crazy stuff there. We’re really going for it on the fourth one. Part one is a wartime movie and we have four huge “prosthetic days” that include a hospital full of injured people who have just come in from bombings. They’re burned and missing limbs. We have a lot of distressed looking makeups as opposed to glamour.
How big is the part of the Hunger Games makeup department that you oversee?
We have three makeup artists who are on all the time and we have one make-up artist who runs our tech unit, who works with us concurrently doing interior and pickup shots. She sometimes has fifteen people working with her. Right now we’re doing stuff in District 13, so we have 20 extra makeup artists, and there are even more people in the hair department. We have a lot manpower because there are over 400 extras. They live underground, so nobody has tans. Everybody has to look sickly. Those are the types of makeups we’re doing — very simple, really pale.
What’s it like working with the stars of the movie?
They’re all wonderful to work with. They all have children… well Josh and Jennifer don’t, but a lot of our other adult principals have children and, of course, their kids are all really happy that their parents are working on the Hunger Games, so that’s fun for them. We have a terrific director and we don’t work hellacious hours. No 19-hour shoot days. They try to keep it to 12 hours so that everybody stays relatively healthy and rested.
Though you might have less work to do if the extras came to set already looking a little sickly.
We’ll just make ‘em look that way.
Neill talks more about her role as judge on the show "Face Off" in EW.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the shortlist of seven films that have been chosen as semi-finalists for the annual Oscar for Make-Up and Hairstyling at the 86th Annual Academy Awards, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is on that list. The three finalists will be informed of their Oscar nomination on Thursday, January 16 at 5:30 AM PT with the winner announced at the annual Oscar presentation on Sunday, March 2.
The seven movies on the shortlist are:
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
American Hustle
Dallas Buyers Club
The Great Gatsby
Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
On Saturday, January 11, 2014, all members of the Academy's Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films. Following the screenings, members will vote to nominate three films for final Oscar consideration.
The 86th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 16, 2014, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Best of luck to our make-up and hair gurus Ve Neill and Linda Flowers!!
Thanks to our follower Erica G for the tip!