Go Behind the Hair and Makeup of Wicked: For Good

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Step inside the transformation with a behind-the-scenes look at the hair and makeup artistry that brought Wicked: For Good to life. Now playing in theaters.

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00:01Our whole world in Wicked For Good

00:04has transferred into a much deeper, more grown-up world.

00:08I'm off to see the wizard.

00:11It was all about showing where are they emotionally now.

00:15Thank Oz you're alive.

00:17The small nuances that you get with the makeup

00:20develops their own person into their character.

00:23In this film, Elphaba, it's much more powerful and far more serious.

00:33We wanted to give her much longer and freer hair,

00:36like for when she became more and more freer

00:39within her own self and her personality as Elphaba.

00:43We contoured her deeper,

00:45and then her eyes and lips are much darker,

00:49which really empowered her.

00:51You know, Cynthia herself delved into her own development.

00:55She'd choose the colours that made her feel what she wanted to feel.

01:04One of Galinda's main changes for her stronger visual in Wicked For Good

01:09is that she is much more structured

01:11and she carries herself very differently.

01:14She always had a particular style

01:16that we didn't deviate from only in small variations.

01:20It goes to the twists here,

01:22and then the tiara would go on the top.

01:25We didn't want it to be straight and flat.

01:27That was very important.

01:28Her costumes had a lot of life and movement in them,

01:31and it was important to keep it in the hair as well.

01:33We framed her eyes much darker

01:37just by staying very close to her lashes

01:39and giving it a real strength.

01:41I think it really carried through well in bringing her more forward

01:46into how she was playing her character.

01:50Oh, my heart.

01:54It feels like it's shrinking.

01:56With the Tin Man, we had a wonderful collaboration

01:59with Mark Coolio, who made the prosthetics

02:01and Paul Tassel costume.

02:03His ears would be the jug handle that was on the table,

02:07and the nose is the tip of the spout of the teapot.

02:11It really is a beautiful work of art,

02:13and I think it came over perfectly

02:15and without removing the audience from the Tin Man at all

02:19and leaving everything human about him.

02:24We had to keep the emotional side of Fierro

02:27so that you'd leave the emotional interaction.

02:30You saved my life.

02:32As Fierro, he wore blue lenses all the time.

02:35It really made his eyes pop up beautifully.

02:38When he turns into Scarecrow,

02:40we thought it'd be nice to go back to John's own dark brown eyes,

02:43more the earthly look.

02:44I think when you see the scenes where Cynthia's

02:46really looking into his eyes,

02:48the sadness of what happened to Scarecrow,

02:50the dark brown eyes really worked in that situation.

02:53And for Color His Hair, what we did was we dyed a wig

02:56to color of a field, corn colors, lots of different yellows,

02:59and then sewn in oats, barley, wheat, grasses.

03:04I think overall, I found that you could still believe

03:09that you could love him, even though he's covered in this sacking.

03:14This is the work of the wicked witch!

03:18She wants to kill us all!

03:20Madam Marvel, she controls the weather.

03:23What we brought into her look was the whiteness of the clouds

03:26to be the weather, and then always something whipped up in the air

03:30as if it was about to take off.

03:32There are light bolts sort of flying out the side of her head and tornadoes.

03:37And then as her life progressed through her storyline,

03:40it all started to tumble down and fall away on her.

03:43My job is telling a visual story, but it's a very silent story

03:50that you hope that the audience absorb,

03:53even though that's not what they're aware of.

03:55They're aware of the words and the movement and the artists themselves,

03:58the characters.

03:59I had the best team in the world.

04:01This was the most amazing collaborative project I've ever had the pleasure of working on.

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