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00:11Getting into the world of prosthetics is always something I really wanted to do.
00:14I grew up in the north of England.
00:15My father was manager of a local cinema.
00:18I sort of grew up with Star Wars
00:20and all the science fiction films of the 70s.
00:22I spent a lot of my childhood
00:23in my bedroom covering myself in latex,
00:26blood and gore.
00:26Quite early on I realised
00:28I wanted to make creatures and monsters.
00:31Things out of rubber basically.
00:33So a show like Game of Thrones is kind of
00:35like a bucket list. We will actually concept
00:36and design the characters.
00:38A lot of our crew concentrate on painting.
00:41A lot of guys are from a very sculptural
00:43sort of background. Hair dressing.
00:45Definitely an artistic process.
00:48Whatever the brief is for the character
00:50we have to be practical about things.
00:52The artist is going to be able to wear this stuff
00:54day in, day out. It's not too heavy.
00:56They're going to be able to breathe.
00:57So to create a prosthetic makeup
00:59and apply it to an actor
01:01is very much a team effort.
01:03From your sculpting, your mould makers,
01:06your people who run silicons,
01:07people who put hair onto pieces.
01:09You could have a team of 10, 15, 20 people
01:11who could do the whole process from start to finish.
01:14And then you could have 2 to 5 people
01:16on the day actually gluing these pieces on.
01:18So it's definitely a team effort
01:19and it's something I couldn't be responsible for myself.
01:29The build of a character would usually start with a life cast.
01:32Basically making a mould of the actor's head
01:35which we can then make duplicate heads out of.
01:37We would then sculpt the make-ups and all the forms
01:40in a modelling clay all over the head.
01:42and then we would make moulds of the modelling clay
01:45basically on the formers of their face.
01:47Once we have our moulds,
01:48the majority of our appliances are made out of
01:51silicon rubber which can be glued to the face
01:53and then the edges can be blended away.
01:55We might be applying hair
01:56which are usually punched in with a very fine needle
02:00all individually.
02:01And then we would need to do duplicate sets
02:03of prosthetic appliances for every single day
02:05that the character films.
02:07It's all quite a painstaking process really
02:09from start to finish.
02:10we usually say an average kind of build time
02:12is about four weeks for a prosthetic character.
02:17Our daily process in the prosthetics department
02:19we'd usually have like two, three a.m. calls,
02:22get our artists in the chair.
02:24The process of gluing them into their prosthetics
02:26is usually about two to three hours
02:28and the guys would then travel to hair.
02:29The moment we start with these guys
02:31to the moment they step onto set
02:32it could be five or six hours
02:33and then we would have a filming day of
02:36say about eight, nine, ten hours
02:38following the artists around all day
02:40is prodding them and maintaining the makeup.
02:43Then at the end of the day
02:44we'd then have the de-rigging process
02:46which involves us basically peeling the prosthetics off
02:49with a brush and mineral oils
02:50and so you can't just rip these things off
02:52because it would take a layer of the skin with it
02:54and then we would usually be the last out
02:56at the end of the day.
02:59What makes Game of Thrones so special?
03:01I don't think I've ever worked on a project
03:03that's got such a varied amount of prosthetics
03:05and have such a variety of things to make
03:07that it's very rare you'll be on a project
03:09and you'll be decapitating somebody the one week
03:12and then you'll be doing a full body prosthetic
03:14the next week.
03:15But the most enjoyable memories
03:17was probably the end of Hardhome last year.
03:20It was very cold, wet, muddy, smoke, snow.
03:22We had it all going on.
03:24We were covering them in loads of rubber each day.
03:26At times it felt like pandemonium
03:28and then you'd just look across
03:29and have a look at the monitor
03:30and it was so cleverly choreographed and orchestrated.
03:34You couldn't believe what you were seeing on film
03:36was what was right next to you.
03:38The feeling of achievement was incredible.
03:40I think that's probably one of the best memories
03:42I'll take home so far from Game of Thrones.
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