Dafne Keen's approach to The Acolyte 'completely' changed after make-up test

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The actor and her co-stars Charlie Barnett and Rebecca Henderson speak to Yahoo about the Disney+ show.

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00:00 - Definitely, I wanted to ask,

00:02 obviously you have quite a transformation in this

00:04 with all of the makeup that you do,

00:06 which is a very cool look,

00:07 but I wondered what was it like for you to be in that makeup?

00:10 How long did it take?

00:11 But also, did it help you to kind of transform

00:14 into Jackie more that way?

00:16 - It definitely did.

00:17 As soon as I had all the prosthetics on and the costume,

00:22 Jackie just came to life.

00:23 And I've said this before,

00:24 but the way I read her on the page

00:26 and the way I'd thought of her in my head

00:29 and the way I'd rehearsed her by myself

00:31 was completely different to once I had the whole look on.

00:35 She became so much more,

00:37 the way I devised her was very controlled

00:41 and kind of harsh.

00:42 She became sort of quite sweet and curious,

00:47 which was really lovely.

00:48 And it was really fun to get to play that.

00:51 And I was very surprised by that aspect of her.

00:53 And I think the makeup really, really helped.

00:56 And it was so exciting.

00:57 We worked with the most amazing makeup artists,

01:00 Jeremy and Rob, who were just incredible.

01:02 And it was really fun to get to sit in the chair with them.

01:05 And we became mates and we'd chat

01:08 for an hour and a half in the mornings.

01:09 It was an intense call time.

01:12 It was like 3.30 a.m. I'd get picked up from my house,

01:15 which was exhausting.

01:17 But it was worth it.

01:18 And it was really fun to then,

01:22 you truly felt, you were amazing as well.

01:24 - Alien, yeah.

01:25 - You felt alien.

01:25 - You feel different.

01:26 - But in Star Wars.

01:27 And you'd look at yourself and you'd be like,

01:29 wow, damn it, I'm doing Star Wars.

01:32 - Yeah.

01:33 - I really wanted to be an alien

01:34 until I watched you guys go through

01:36 your first day of makeup.

01:37 And I was like, cool, I'm good being human.

01:38 - You were like, I'm actually fine, yeah.

01:40 I just have an earring and a dress.

01:42 - It was only difficult if you worked many days in a row.

01:44 Then it became sort of like a meditative exercise

01:48 going through the makeup.

01:50 But if you didn't work every single day in a row,

01:52 it was very manageable.

01:54 - Did you figure out a way to sleep in the chair?

01:56 - Because I did.

01:56 - I didn't, no.

01:57 - I did.

01:58 - I would watch you sleep.

01:59 - It's amazing.

02:00 - Well, because I do days on end of this makeup.

02:04 So, of getting up at 3 a.m. and getting home at 9.

02:07 So, I'd be getting--

02:08 - It's also hard to take off as well.

02:09 But anyway, they looked amazing.

02:10 - You'd then have bits of,

02:12 I had bits of white all over me.

02:14 - I would blow my nose and green would come out

02:16 for a week.

02:17 - Yeah, literally.

02:18 And I figured out a way to sleep.

02:19 You'd just go like this.

02:20 - Good being human.

02:21 - And you'd fall asleep like this.

02:24 And then you'd wake up an hour and a half later

02:25 and you were an alien.

02:26 - Alien.

02:27 - Yeah, it's really jarring.

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