Hocus Pocus Behind-the-Scenes Stories With SFX Makeup Artist Tony Gardner

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Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan

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4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today is our Halloween episode! Halloween and Hocus Pocus are synonymous with each other, and if you grew up watching the 1993 classic, chances are it has a special place in your heart. Hocus Pocus is one of Kirbie's top 5 favorite films, and today's guest is the creator of Billy Butcherson's incredible special effects makeup and the animatronic puppet, Binx the cat.

Special effects makeup artist and puppeteer Tony Gardner's story is truly what movies are made of. He’s known for his SFX makeup work in film, tv and music videos, including Zombieland, Bad Grandpa, 127 Hours, Hairspray and Sasha Baron Cohen’s ‘Who is America.’ He’s transformed stars like John Travolta, Gwyneth Paltrow and Katy Perry and is the man responsible for Daft Punk’s incredible helmets. Today he joins us because of his work on some fabulous Halloween films, from The Addams Family to The Blob, The Craft to the Chucky series, and of course, Hocus Pocus.

Today he shares his first experience on set (which is nothing short of iconic), talks about getting a job offer from legendary SFX makeup artist Rick Baker, dropping out of school to follow his dreams, debunking some myths about the movie, the makeup and filming process for Binx and Billy, and even offers a preview of what we can expect from Hulaween, the mini Hocus Pocus reunion Bette Midler is putting on tonight for the New York Restoration Project.

All details on Tony, his company Alterian and Hulaween will be available on our website for you to check out, and be sure to head to our Instagram to see some behind the scenes pics too! Enjoy the full moon this weekend, stay safe, and Happy Halloween!

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Kirby. Welcome to Gloss Angeles. Or should I say Goals, Angeles, if you will.
0:15.6	All right, everyone. Thanks for humoring me. It is our Halloween episode and I am so, so psyched.
0:24.1	Y'all, if you are just listening into the podcast or maybe you don't follow me on social media,
0:30.6	I am a Halloween fanatic. It is my favorite holiday. To be honest, this year, the entire year,
0:36.7	has felt like the nightmare before
0:37.9	Christmas. So it's been really hard getting psyched for my favorite holiday. That said, I still
0:43.6	decorated my house. I still bought costumes. I still bought costumes for Quinn. I have been fully
0:49.9	dressing up just to bring a little bit of happiness to the month, things are different.
0:54.5	You know, like normally I'd be going to Disneyland and celebrating Halloween there and
0:58.2	Halloween horror nights and going to haunted houses with friends and having friends over for
1:03.0	a Halloween party, Curbawine. Obviously things have changed. Things are a little bit different,
1:07.4	but I still wanted to bring the Halloween joy to the podcast. So
1:12.1	throughout this month, you've heard our new hallow theme from Sarah's husband, Matt, who created
1:17.8	this spooky sounding intro for us. Thanks, Matt. And then obviously, today is October 30th,
1:24.3	the day before Halloween, I wanted to do a Halloween-themed episode. And when I was
1:28.7	picking my brain as to who I should get as the guest, it was actually a no-brainer because
1:34.1	this person worked on one of my favorite films all time. Hocus-pocus-pocus. Okay, yes,
1:40.6	hocus focus focus is one of my favorite films. I have a hocus-pocus poster on my wall, have a hocus-pocus
1:46.1	sign up in my office. I just, I love the whole movie. People talk about plot holes, people talk
1:52.0	about things like that. I don't want to hear any of it. If you grew up watching the 1993 classic,
1:58.4	chances are it holds a very special place in your heart. Thank God we have
2:01.7	free form because they play it all month long and all day on Halloween. And it's just one of those
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