As the movie’s lead make-up designer, Hannon needed to get forward of crucial job at hand: reworking Erivo into the Wicked Witch of the West. Erivo was in America through the early levels of planning, however over in London the place filming would happen, Hannon was well-underway with researching and creating Elphaba’s look—significantly her hanging inexperienced pores and skin.
After a interval of “trawling merchandise round streets and outlets” and loads of analysis, Hannon started creating customized inexperienced physique make-up with particular results make-up producer David Stoneman.
“We began by bringing in fashions with the proper pores and skin tone and airbrushed completely different shade greens on daily basis to search out the appropriate shade inexperienced for the pores and skin tone,” Hannon tells Glamour. “We’d have a look at that in all completely different lights. We’d exit within the daylight, into the daylight, into the shade, pre-cameras and pre-sets.”
Nailing the proper inexperienced early on was paramount; it was the deciding consider whether or not or not visible results could be wanted to create Elphaba’s inexperienced pores and skin, which Hannon needed to keep away from. But with each take a look at trial, she stored working into the identical drawback.
“We discovered that what appeared nice inside in heat mild, appeared completely terrible in a blue skylight exterior,” she says. “We needed to develop one thing that labored for each mild as a result of on set Cynthia would transfer by many, many various mild modifications in a single scene, not to mention in sooner or later. And there was no approach we may change the make-up to change the completely different lighting.”
During one in all her purchasing outings, Hannon found the important thing: a small tube of neon-based eye make-up from Canada. “A teeny weeny little factor, it was discontinued,” she says. “I introduced that to David and he took the bottom of the neon and put a couple of drops into the inexperienced that we already created, and it simply gave the reflective high quality that we did not have. And inside that, it labored in each mild. We ticked that field right away and that was earlier than we obtained Cynthia within the nation. It was going to be make-up, which was an important pleasure to us due to course it is pretty to do your artwork.”
