00:00What's funny with the bath scene, actually,
00:02that bathtub water is oily.
00:04So a lot of my makeup, I think,
00:07started to rub off a little bit.
00:09I'm Yeren Ha, and this is The Close-Up.
00:19When I got the role,
00:21I immediately purchased the book on my iPad.
00:24I binge-read that, re-watched all the seasons of Bridgerton.
00:28The big mental hurdle of just telling myself
00:32that I am going to be the next lead of Bridgerton.
00:34I never saw myself in that romantic lead character role.
00:38So I was like, I can't do this, I can't do this.
00:40I can do this, I can do this.
00:42I did not have a British accent in my back pocket, I will say.
00:46You are so eager to see me that you cannot wait
00:48until my return to Penwood House.
00:50I am flattered.
00:51Because when I went to NIDA,
00:53the teacher told us that Brits don't like to hire Aussies
00:56because we have a lazy accent.
00:58And then the audition came along and I was like,
01:01oh crap, I should have practiced harder.
01:04But luckily, Jane Caron, the dialect coach on Bridgerton,
01:08she literally held my hand throughout the entire process.
01:11And the thing that I struggled with the most
01:13is when you think you're doing it,
01:15and you're like, water.
01:16And she's like, water.
01:17And I'm like, water.
01:19And she's like, water.
01:20And I'm like, I think I'm doing it.
01:22For Bridgerton, we work with a historical advisor,
01:25and her name is Hannah.
01:26She actually did come with a bunch of different historical sketches
01:31and paintings of a maid falling asleep because she's so tired.
01:34She was saying, like, the maids held all the gossip
01:37and they actually knew everything that went in the household,
01:39which you get to see a lot more in this season.
01:42When I stepped into the Bridgerton drawing room for the first time,
01:44Tom Verica gave me a tour of the set,
01:46and I was like, this is crazy.
01:48Some of them are real houses.
01:50I remember going to one,
01:52I think it was shooting at Cavender House,
01:53and they were saying it's up for sale for 75 million pounds.
01:58It's crazy the amount of cash those people have.
02:04With the makeup, it'd be a very no makeup makeup look.
02:08So we kept it really simple, paired back.
02:10Valli would use a Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation,
02:16Dior Concealer, and just an eyebrow pencil,
02:19a very simple liner.
02:21Nick Collins, the head of makeup and hair department,
02:25she talked to me about what products I like to use,
02:29what kind of eyeliner shape I like,
02:31or she thinks is flattering,
02:33would test different colors on me
02:35to make sure it suits my skin tone.
02:37I think what's great about the makeup team
02:39is they get a shot list, obviously,
02:41and whenever there is a closeup,
02:43they'll spend extra time cleaning up anything,
02:47and you get really close with your makeup person,
02:50let's just say that.
02:51Yeah.
02:52She would pump on that blush a lot.
02:54I think my cheeks can take a lot of it.
02:57I believe that's a Dior tint, lip tint as well.
03:03Miss Gum, may I have your first dance?
03:09You may, Mr. Bridgerton.
03:11This scene is right towards the end.
03:15She's really coming into her own skin at this point,
03:17so there's a bit more of a color on the eyeshadow
03:20that she didn't really have as a lady in silver.
03:23It was a lot simpler than this.
03:24And even with that lip color,
03:27I think it's just those little nods to perhaps Sophie
03:31being more comfortable in her skin
03:32and embracing her womanhood and her femininity.
03:35We tried a lot with different eyeshadow palettes,
03:38and I think we went with a Dior eyeshadow palette,
03:42I think, like a little almost pinky, hazy hue.
03:45My makeup artist, she did this great thing of wetting the...
03:49It was almost like an eyeshadow, actually,
03:51and she wet it and she used that almost as the eyeliner
03:53rather than using a liquid eyeliner,
03:56because those can come across quite heavy, I think.
03:59So having something more powdery
04:00gave it a bit more of a subtler texture to it.
04:10Sophie.
04:13Wow.
04:14Yes, going into a wedding look,
04:16you know, you're really embracing all your flaws,
04:20and, you know, when you see someone
04:22standing at the other side of the aisle
04:24completely looking at you in love,
04:26it really does help you play the arc of where you're about to go.
04:31They just wanted my skin to look glowy
04:33and maybe go a bit heavy on the mascara.
04:36Those are your real lashes?
04:38Those are my real lashes, yes.
04:41Hey, look, a lash perm can do a lot of things.
04:47It is a pain sometimes to go to the bathroom in those toilets,
04:51but you just have to do it to keep your skin hydrated.
04:54It is so difficult to the point where sometimes
04:56you just don't want to drink water and stay dehydrated
05:00because it's annoying.
05:01I have to go into the bathroom.
05:04But no, you do have to stay hydrated and it's important.
05:08It's important to stay hydrated.
05:10I would prep kind of at home.
05:13When I'm working, I do tend to splurge a little bit.
05:19So I do go for, like, an SK-II, like, Patera Essence.
05:23And then just a simple but thick moisturiser
05:27that would really keep my skin hydrated.
05:29So I go for, like, the Tatcha cream.
05:32Go for the beauty of Jorzon eye cream.
05:35You know what? I would actually go to face gym quite a bit.
05:39That was a thing that I discovered while living in London.
05:42Face gym is a gym for your face.
05:45It's such an original title.
05:47Basically, they just try to massage your face and lift it in a very natural way, I guess.
05:57What's funny with the bath scene, actually, that bathtub water is oily.
06:01So a lot of my makeup, I think, started to rub off a little bit.
06:06It's just a little bit of oil to make your skin look really nice and glistening and smooth.
06:14There was, like, a powder that they put in to make it opaque.
06:18Um, I thought they were going to use a bath bomb, but, um, no, it was like a powder that
06:24they did.
06:24And they would just stir it with their fingers.
06:27And I was like, I can help you.
06:29I'm like, let me stir it for you.
06:30I'm proud of being able to do the intimacy scenes because I was really scared of them.
06:35I obviously deal with self-confidence or lack of, as I think a lot of women do.
06:42And so being able to feel comfortable in my skin took a lot of courage, I think.
06:46Luckily for me, because I didn't have to have, like, lipstick or lip gloss.
06:51It was all really, um, easy for the makeup team.
06:55I think I could say that.
06:57Um, but it was just about making sure because I have a few tattoos, actually.
07:02So we'd have to make sure that they're not being rubbed, you know, onto the sheets or the costumes
07:07or whatever with our movements.
07:09Um, we have an amazing intimacy coordinator, Lizzie Talbot.
07:13And she talks with us beforehand, like, one-on-one.
07:17And then we also have quite a extensive rehearsal period with her.
07:21What's great about the scripts is that it's written in a lot of detail, I think,
07:24of how they imagine the intimate scene to play out.
07:28And then Lizzie would kind of talk to us about what do we feel comfortable with?
07:33What do we feel comfortable with showing?
07:35And then she'll create almost, like, a blueprint for us to follow.
07:40Some people prefer to do it, like, literally and paint by numbers.
07:44Like, literally put your hand here, then here.
07:46But I think because Luke and I had gained quite a lot of trust, she trusted us for us to
07:51be able
07:52to follow the arc that she painted.
07:54It's amazing because what sometimes you think feels good doesn't always look good.
07:59And, um, there's a lot of toe pointing to make a good intimacy scene look good, you know?
08:05And it's not something I think you would actually clock if you're watching it,
08:08but it just looks prettier from an audience perspective.
08:11Because, yeah, some flex feet, I've seen some takes, it does not look great.
08:20I actually had short hair beginning filming of Bridgerton.
08:24So we had to use a wig, actually.
08:27Sophie's transformation is something we talked about a little bit quite early on with Nick.
08:33You know, when we see her in the Penwood household, she has a really slick bun.
08:36Even her costume represented that with, like, the high collar and the darker tones.
08:40And then as she transitioned throughout the series, we wanted her hair to be looser.
08:46Maybe the necklines to be softer.
08:49Little details like that, I think, really helped me remember what stage I was in.
08:53Because we also shoot quite out of, um, sequence for that masquerade ball.
09:00We wanted to almost take a spin on a bun, the classic bun that she would wear.
09:04And we know that she didn't have as much time.
09:06So we thought that she would just kind of elaborate on that.
09:09So then she would add a plait around the bun and have, like, these little curls on the sides.
09:14Just, like, extra little bits, but then would also be quick to, like, fix up when she goes back home.
09:18We did a few different hair trials for the wedding look.
09:23We wanted Sophie to obviously be a bit more extravagant than what we've seen her throughout the series.
09:29But still a bit simpler, perhaps, than perhaps other brides would be.
09:34And so I guess this is, like, almost an extension of the queen's ball look.
09:39But yeah, that was my own hair.
09:41But then with a lot of extra, I think maybe, like, three or four extra hair pieces on top of
09:46that.
09:50With more of these extravagant dresses, you know, we obviously had the corset.
09:54Then the petticoat, little stockings for the shoes.
09:58To be honest with you, it's really just the corset that is a bit of a pain.
10:04True lace-up corset.
10:05You do really have to grab on to something because you do lose your balance.
10:10Like bracing.
10:10Yeah, I'm bracing.
10:11I'm like, oh, yeah.
10:13We tried on the silver dress.
10:16There was, like, an embellishment team, a team that created the bows, like, separately to add it on.
10:22They measured my hand and everything from different circumferences I didn't even know you would need.
10:27There's the jewelry team, the mask team.
10:31There's hundreds of people.
10:33Yeah, it's insane.
10:34Yeah, we tried on different colors.
10:36Like, the specificity of, you know, the different type of silver.
10:41Is it silver enough or is it too cream?
10:44Like, they would argue over, to us, what seems like very small details.
10:48But to them, it's, like, quite big.
10:50And, you know, those little layers make up for such a beautiful image,
10:53which is why they're so incredible at what they do.
10:56There were so many different iterations of the mask.
10:59Because we want to cover enough of her that Benedict doesn't realize her.
11:03But also be able to see enough of me to see my expressions, I guess.
11:09We would spend a good morning putting on the makeup to then cover half the makeup.
11:15But, yeah, they molded my face.
11:17And the material is actually so delicate that we had to put compes on the inside of the mask.
11:24Because my skin is quite sensitive.
11:26Because they're kind of see-through.
11:29Like, the color is quite transparent.
11:31And it's thin enough that it just sticks on, like, a thin layer on top of the fabric.
11:37That it looks like the fabric.
11:39It also protects my skin.
11:41Well, Sophie's necklace obviously holds a lot of weight.
11:45And, yeah, the costume team told me that, obviously, the amethyst pendant is the Korea national gem.
11:51Which I didn't know, actually.
11:53And so they made it into, like, a purple little necklace that she would always wear.
11:57It was a memory of her mother.
12:01She would always look at it and remind herself to never become like her and not make mistakes like her.
12:08It's amazing what hair costume can do to your posture, to your gestures.
12:13Or even, like, things like having an apron.
12:15It just really reminds you of, like, your work and your duty.
12:18The costume and makeup team really helped me be able to feel like Sophie.
12:24And be able to go on that journey with them.
12:26Yeah, and not do it alone.
12:27I wouldn't have done it without them.
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