Here we go on three two one Rick Baker.

Ladies and gentlemen how are you sir?

Hey I'm great Joe everybody's been saying on my

Instagram I should do this podcast for ages. Well I'm glad they listened

or you listened rather I've been a fan of yours forever man. I was a huge Star Wars fan when I was a kid and you inspired me

when I was young I really wanted to be a makeup artist. I wanted to do special effects and the kind of stuff that you do.

I had no idea.

Yeah, man. I think it was probably Star Wars that kicked it off from me because I like many kids, a lot of people today, you know,

were so removed with first VHS and then DVDs and

laser discs and now streaming. It's so easy to watch movies, but when Star Wars came

out, we would go see it over and over again.

It was like a little contest between a lot of the kids that I went to school with.

I think I saw it 13 times while it was out in the movie theater.

But I became fascinated, I've always been fascinated with comic books I

always wanted to be a comic book illustrator and I I always loved like like those

fantasy novels like creepy and eerie you know like those

graphic novels,

graphic novels, but I really became fascinated with special effects

and particularly makeup after your work?

Well, you know, it's kind of the same thing for me.

I mean, you know, I grew up and I was born in 1950, you know, I grew up in front of a TV, but it was a little black

and white one, you know, grew up in front of a TV but it was a little black and white one you know and and there was always the monster movies on Saturdays you know and

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