Viewers of the Emmy-nominated Angelyne on Peacock could be shocked to be taught simply how little of star Emmy Rossum they really noticed. Rossum mentioned throughout a panel look at Deadline’s Contenders Tv: The Nominees occasion that 10 prosthetic items reworked her face and physique into that of Los Angeles billboard queen Angelyne.
“Nothing of me is me,” Rossum mentioned. “There’s two contact lenses in every eye. There’s a chest piece that wraps round up into the neck and the hairline. Even earlobes, arms — all the things just isn’t recognizable [as myself].”
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Emmy-nominated make-up division head Kate Biscoe mentioned the prosthetics created a novel paradox. Biscoe usually is tasked with making prosthetic materials appear like human pores and skin. Nevertheless, Angelyne herself has altered her physique with cosmetic surgery.
“It’s all very meta as a result of she has put inorganic materials in herself to place this different id and reinvent herself as one thing else,” Biscoe mentioned of the actual Angelyne. “It was such a tightrope and such a balancing act of making an attempt to make one thing that’s inorganic appear like pores and skin but additionally painting that it’s inorganic in some features whereas not dropping the id of the model of the person who we try to have the viewer empathize with.”
Rossum additionally performs Angelyne earlier than she undergoes her first surgical procedure. Even then, Biscoe’s group altered her look.
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“There isn’t a single look the place I don’t have a prosthetic on of some type,” Rossum mentioned. “Whether or not it’s only a nostril and generally PVC piping in my nostril, I believe it’s a catheter ring to change the form of my nostril from the within out.”
Prosthetic designer Vincent Van Dyke mentioned he hopes his Emmy-nominated work is imperceptible to audiences.
“On the finish of the day, the largest aim right here is to not distract,” he mentioned. “To make it really feel prefer it seamlessly blends into this world.”
Van Dyke and Biscoe added that offering old-age make-up for co-stars together with Michael Angarano helped illustrate how completely different Angelyne’s look is. Each actors seem as 70-year-olds, and make-up artist David Williams was in command of the supporting solid.
Rossum mentioned she wore greater than 100 completely different costumes as Angelyne. Costume designer Danny Glicker discovered the identical material Angelyne wore and oversaw the customized design of Rossum’s costumes.
“I used to be in a position to actually work along with her via many many years to trace not solely the types of the day and the type of particular tendencies that Angelyne herself adopted,” Glicker mentioned. “But in addition this evolution of herself as being the embodiment of a really particular hot-pink sparkly, magical, fluffy fact.”
Rossum did meet with the actual Angelyne and paid her for all times rights to assist her contributions to tradition.
“She has an actual Tinkerbell vitality — concurrently shifting extremely rapidly and in addition seeming to sort of hover and float in midair,” Rossum mentioned.
Examine again Monday for the panel video.
