Donald Mowat - Makeup Artist
Team Deakins
James Ellis Deakins
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🗓️ 7 June 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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EPISODE 16 - DONALD MOWAT - Makeup
Team Deakins has the pleasure of learning the ins and outs of the makeup department in films. Who better to cover these subjects than the extremely talented Donald Mowat? Donald's credits include BLADE RUNNER 2049, STRONGER, SICARIO, NIGHTCRAWLER, PRISONERS, THE FIGHTER and 8 MILE. We learn what this department brings to the film, how strong the collaboration is, different types of approaches and how to get started in the field.
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| 0:21.0 | I'm going to Hi and welcome to the Team Deacons podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and James Deacons, joined by Matt Wyman, starting from a submitted question, and ending who knows where. |
| 0:31.0 | We're also joined by guests on occasion. We're connecting through |
| 0:35.0 | Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the audio. If you'd like to submit a |
| 0:39.6 | question, please do so by emailing pod p-o-d at Roger deacons.com. |
| 0:47.0 | Today's topic has to do with the craft of makeup on a film. To help us get through this topic we have a very good friend with us who's a |
| 0:56.4 | phenomenal artist we've had the pleasure of working with him many times he's |
| 1:00.9 | done such movies as Three Kings, The Perfect Storm, The Girl with a Dragon |
| 1:06.8 | Tattoo, Blade Runner 2049, Prisoners, Skyfall, Sakario, First Man, and Dune. We're very happy to have our good, good friend |
| 1:19.2 | Donald Moat with us today. |
| 1:22.0 | Donald, could you tell us a little bit about your path to get to where you are now and did you know as a |
| 1:30.6 | child that you always wanted to work in film? Well, you know, it's funny |
| 1:35.7 | thinking back on it as we all probably do. I think I was kind of a slightly |
| 1:39.5 | freaky child for my parents because I love going to the movies. I just I loved it and I |
| 1:45.2 | managed to see films that I don't know stuck with me and I used to watch the |
| 1:49.6 | credits because I couldn't believe people did that for a living. |
| 1:53.0 | So I think I was really interested when I was very young and I wanted to do something. |
| 1:59.0 | I like playing around with things and I think it was sort of costume, you know, drawing, painting and ended up doing makeup in a school production because somebody said let him do it and and you know found a book Richard Corson's book and and I could |
| 2:17.8 | sort of do it and people said you know that kid's actually okay to get him to do it |
| 2:21.6 | so when somebody actually paid me some money to it was actually |
| 2:23.0 | okay to get him to do it. So when somebody actually paid me some money to it was for the |
| 2:25.6 | photographers were doing headshots for actors. They had they said they had a very hard time |
| 2:30.0 | finding people who could do a no makeup look and it became sort of a thing that you |
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