Howard Berger & Marshall Julius – “Masters of Makeup” – TWP058

The Well

Anson Mount & Branan Edgens

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Just in time for Halloween Branan sits down with author Marshall Julius and legendary makeup FX maestro Howard Berger to discuss their new book, and Branan gets nostalgic and wistful thinking back upon his own almost makeup career.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Well, I am Brandon Edgians.
0:24.4	And I am Anson Mount.
0:25.8	And Anson, what is our history with prosthetic makeup?
0:30.1	Remember that time back in Swanee?
0:33.3	Oh, yeah.
0:35.0	Yeah, was that our senior year?
0:36.9	Was that our junior year?
0:37.5	Senior year. Yeah, was that our senior year? Was that our junior year?
0:38.1	Senior year.
0:39.6	Senior year, yeah.
0:50.1	I spent every Sunday of a semester or more out in a cowfield with you gluing a prosthetic to my forehead and then letting you chain me to the tree.
0:52.9	And then Jonathan Meiberg, now famous rock star,
0:57.7	who also composed our theme, spent time out there too, covered in mud doing your surrealist thesis film.
1:07.9	And the prosthetic that was on your head was to look like the indentation of a horse's hoof
1:13.7	that had kicked you in the head and broken your skull and it made you crazy,
1:18.3	which is why your family had to tie you to a tree, chain you into a tree in the backyard.
1:21.8	That was the story.
1:23.5	Do you remember also one time?
1:24.8	I remember didn't I drive away one time?
1:26.4	I forgot that you hadn't unlocked you.
1:28.4	I think I remember driving away and looking up on the horizon,
1:34.1	this figure frantically jumping up and down, waving.
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