\n\tTurning Charlie Hunnam into Ed Gein required more than simply making the actor look older. For Monster: The Ed Gein Story, makeup department head Corey Castellano said the process was about developing a physical language for the character while making sure the prosthetics never overwhelmed Hunnam\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe never wanted to lose Charlie in too much makeup,\u201d Castellano said on the latest episode of Deadline\u2019s podcast The Process. \u201cWe never wanted him to get so old or so unusual looking that we lost the fact that he\u2019s a leading man. Part of it is just making sure that nothing is too heavy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tCastellano began in pre-production, studying reference photographs of Hunnam and using Photoshop to develop the character\u2019s progression. From there, the team moved on to life casts, sculpting, and a 3D scan of Hunnam\u2019s face, which became the template for designing the various aging appliances.<\/p>\n
\n\tOne of the most significant details was Gein\u2019s hooded eyelid, a feature Hunnam specifically wanted to incorporate because it gave him additional physicality to work with. The appliance tucked underneath the brow bone rather than sitting directly on the eyelid, creating the droop that became an important part of Hunnam\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe process of the eye alone, we had down to about 45 minutes,\u201d Castellano said. \u201cFor the full aging, it was closer to two hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFor the older versions of Gein, Castellano and makeup artist Mark Nieman would tag-team the application. Forehead, eye-bag and nasolabial-fold appliances were applied in sequence, blended and then painstakingly painted to replicate natural skin. The pieces were primarily fabricated from platinum-based medical-grade silicone, which Castellano explained offered the most convincing flesh-like quality.<\/p>\n
\n\tPeriod research also played a key role. Rather than depending solely on stylized magazine photography, Castellano looked to yearbooks and news footage to study the hairstyles and facial grooming of the post-World War II era.<\/p>\n
\n\tAnd then there was Hunnam\u2019s performance. Castellano remembers that it took about two weeks of shooting before the actor\u2019s interpretation of Gein\u2019s voice became second nature to everyone on set. Then, after filming a particularly unsettling scene, Castellano had asked Hunnam if he had needed any assistance, just to watch Hunnam put his arm around Castellano\u2019s shoulder and, still in Gein\u2019s voice, say, \u201cOh, that\u2019s okay. You\u2019re my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI have never been so creeped out in my life,\u201d Castellano added with a laugh. \u201cIt was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tTo learn more about the show\u2019s prosthetics, watch the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turning Charlie Hunnam into Ed Gein required more than simply making the actor look older. For Monster: The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[268109,434,46314,269806,18,117,19,17,58550,215687],"class_list":["post-638191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-awardsbtl","tag-celebrities","tag-charlie-hunnam","tag-corey-castellano","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-monster-the-ed-gein-story","tag-the-process"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}