SPOILER ALERT: This text incorporates main spoilers for plot factors, cameos and the ending of “Depraved: For Good” now taking part in in theaters, in addition to minor spoilers for the “Depraved” stage present.
“Depraved” make-up designer Frances Hannon had her work reduce out for her.
After efficiently discovering the proper verdant hue to show Cynthia Erivo inexperienced, she needed to proceed every character’s arc for the movie’s conclusion, “Depraved: For Good.”
“For Good” doesn’t simply proceed the story of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda’s (Ariana Grande) friendship; it additionally offers the backstory of Dorothy’s companions: The Tin Man, The Cowardly Lion and The Scarecrow.
Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey), who’s in a love triangle with Elphaba and Glinda, turns into the Scarecrow, whereas Boq (Ethan Slater), a Munchkin, transforms into the Tin Man. All of the transformations had been completed virtually.
Right here, Hannon breaks down how Slater and Bailey remodeled into their respective characters.
Boq’s Transformation
In “Depraved,” Boq turns into smitten with Glinda the second he lays eyes on her on their first day at Shiz College. However Glinda has her eyes set on Prince Fiyero, so she convinces Boq to courtroom Nessarose as an alternative. Nessa believes Boq really cares for her.
In “Depraved: For Good,” Nessa turns into the Governor of Munchkinland after her father dies. When Boq tries to depart, she makes use of her energy to oppress the Munchkins, forcing Boq to stick with her. When Elphaba learns of this, she visits her sister to attempt to assist. Nonetheless, issues go mistaken, and Nessa casts a spell from the Grimmerie, hoping to have Boq’s coronary heart. Issues finish with Elphaba regaining management and stepping in.
In the course of the scene, Boq begins to really feel his coronary heart shrink, and metallic begins attaching itself to him. Elphaba leaves, telling Nessa that he’s asleep. After she leaves, he awakens and smashes by means of the door with an axe. Boq is now the Tin Man with no coronary heart, and his transformation is full.
In pulling it off, Hannon explains that Jon M. Chu and Marc Platt had been very particular about what they wished. It additionally required a collaboration with manufacturing designer Nathan Crowley, costume designer Paul Tazewell and prosthetic make-up designer Mark Coulier. “The principle factor was to be sure that no matter we did by no means eliminated the character from being so accessible and permitting all that emotion to come back by means of,” Hannon says. “Although he’s lined in prosthetics, and so they had been all sensible, you continue to noticed Boq beneath all of it.”
Other than maintaining his feelings intact, the small print of what made him the Tin Man had been simply as necessary.
Coulier started by making a plaster solid of Slater’s face. Just a few weeks later, Slater noticed the Tin Man design on a Styrofoam head. He remembers considering, “It doesn’t actually appear like me; it seems to be just like the Tin Man.” Coulier assured him that the items would stretch to contour to his face.
In complete, Slater says 11 items had been utilized to his face, together with cheekbone prosthetics that modified his cheek line and extra items to change his jawline.
The appliance course of took 4 hours. “I might go sit within the prosthetics chair with the crew, and they might begin making use of glue to my eyebrows to tack them down,” Slater explains. “They began layering on these items of silicone, piece by piece. It wanted to be meticulous and exact.”
Slater’s eyelids and lips had been painted silver, and he wore dentures. “I had contacts to make my eyes gray-silver,” he provides.
The actor remembers seeing himself within the mirror for the primary time: “I couldn’t imagine what I used to be seeing. It appeared like me, but it surely didn’t appear like me. The factor that basically blew my thoughts was it didn’t look something prefer it did on the Styrofoam head as a result of it had fully morphed to my face. I may carry an eyebrow, and the eyebrow would carry, and you might see my dimples come by means of.”
The Tin Man’s physique was developed utilizing metallic items from Nessa’s workplace. Hannon says, “The little sq. the place his coronary heart could be was a part of the hearth. On the tray had been sugar bowls and milk jugs, and the handles of the jug had been his ears. On his fingers had been salt and pepper pots, thimbles, and bits from the hearth.” She provides, “The little rivets across the edges had been very delicate and hand-picked and chosen by Jon.”
Hannon labored with Coulier to search out the steadiness of maintaining Slater’s efficiency seen by means of the design. “You need him to nonetheless have a human high quality, so that you don’t give him a bulbous nostril from the teapot or something foolish. You keep inside all of the parameters that go away the human that brings the Tin Man to the efficiency.” When designing him, they wished to nod to the earlier movie with out copying what had come earlier than. “We began by wanting on the silvers. The arms needed to match the face. Mark [Coulier] painted the items upfront. It matched the opposite items on his physique, but it surely didn’t look totally different from the opposite components.”
By the point of “March of the Witch Hunters,” there was a slight development in his make-up.
The tin was now beginning to present particulars of rust after he had been out within the rain.
As for Slater’s hair, it wanted to be scraped and flattened earlier than a bald cap might be placed on. Boq was given extension items to make his hair “architectural and large.” Slater says the bald cap was as tight as doable. “It took about half-hour to do as a result of there’s a variety of hair there. I really feel like I’ve a variety of hair now, however this was 3 times as a lot.”
Hannon provides, “The little funnel went on on the final minute.” In complete, “It took roughly 4 hours. The go well with was left to final as a result of as soon as he was in that go well with, he was just about standing on a regular basis.”
Fiyero’s Transformation
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Fiyero’s transformation is foreshadowed. The lyrics of “Dancing By means of Life” trace at what his future holds, and costume designer Paul Tazewell weaves the easter egg into his Emerald Metropolis guard costume.
Throughout “No Good Deed,” Elphaba casts a spell to guard Fiyero from torture after he’s been captured by the Wizard’s guards. The spell turns him right into a Scarecrow, which permits him to reside.
Hannon says they undoubtedly took a nod to the movie in creating the Scarecrow.
She explains, “We didn’t go for that massive dishevelled look over the pinnacle with the large rope round his neck. What Paul Tazewell did was good. He went for the straw popping out of the areas of the seams and every little thing in his uniform.” She provides, “Mark had made a burlap collar in order that the place the buttons on the shirt had been all busting open.”
Hannon made the Scarecrow’s wig and eyebrows from grass and straw.
“I used blonde in Fiyero’s hair as a really sturdy level to hold by means of that change. The blonde in his personal hair in movie one and the opening of movie two, then develops into the straw high quality from the sphere.”
The wig was constituted of heads of wheat and sewn in, however with little or no hair in it,” She provides, “You then had that cute little cap that Paul designed from bark on the highest.”
Moreover, Hannon factors to a delicate element in Jonathan’s eyes. Fiyero comes from Winkie Nation, which could be very a lot within the blue palette. Hannon says, “He had blue contact lenses. When he goes to Scarecrow, we went again to Jonathan’s personal colour eyes, that are actually deep, darkish brown, to carry again the earthy high quality.”
