‘The Thing About Pam’ Makeup and Hair Team Detail Renee Zellweger’s 80-Minute Prosthetics Application And More
03.03.2022 - 22:08
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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorMakeup artist Arjen Tuiten’s transformation of Renée Zellweger for NBC’s “The Thing About Pam,” premiering March 8, has been the talk of the internet. Zellweger plays Pam Hupp in the new crime drama, based on the true story of a Missouri woman who is eventually jailed for the murder of her friend.
Zellweger donned a padded suit for the role. At TCA last month, the actor mentioned she had opted not to gain weight for the part — as she had for “Bridget Jones’s Diary” — since it had negatively impacted her health.
While she had used prosthetics in films before, this was the first time she wore a full suit.The show raised an outcry for not casting an actor with the same body type as Pam, but Blumhouse Television’s Chris McCumber explained the producers’ reasoning: “In this era of peak TV, having an artist of Renée’s caliber is an incredible advantage. When a two-time Oscar winner calls and says, ‘I’m obsessed with this story, and I want to play Pam, and I want to produce,’ you say, ‘Yes, yes, yes and yes.’ And our job, at that point, is to provide Renée, and the rest of the cast, with all the tools that they need to embody these characters.” Initially, due to the pandemic, Tuiten worked with Zellweger over Zoom to gauge how the actor would feel sitting for the extensive process.
The makeup artist, who has more than 20 years of experience in prosthetics, finds that people often underestimate how much time they will be in the chair, but Zellweger wanted to play the character and said she would do whatever it took.Tuiten watched videos of the real-life Hupp to see her expressions and how she would hold her arms. “I also looked at her nose and how it would look when she turned.
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