Interview With The "Golda" Hair & Makeup Team

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

"Golda" may have had a tiny release in 2023, but one noticeable element that had everyone talking who saw it was the incredible makeup work done to change Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren into Golda Meir. The hair and makeup team consisting of Karen Hartley Thomas, Suzi Battersby, and Ashra Kelly-Blue have all been nominated for Best Makeup & Hairstyling at this year's Academy Awards, and they were kind enough to spend a few minutes speaking with us about how they achieved this astonishing transformation. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Paramount+ and is up for your consideration for Best Makeup & Hairstyling. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast.
0:02.5	This is getting into the time with the hair and makeup team for Golda, Karen Harley Thomas, Susan Battersby, and Asher, Kelly Blue.
0:12.6	Four, three, two, one.
0:16.4	Today, the Egyptian and Syrian armies launched an offensive against Israel.
0:23.4	Our enemies hoped to surprise the citizens of Israel on Yom Kippur.
0:29.0	Our troops are out number 7 to 1.
0:31.6	If the Arabs reach Tel Aviv, Israel will be wiped off the map.
0:37.5	We welcome everyone to the next Best picture podcast where we are talking with
0:41.9	Karen Hartley Thomas, Susie Battersby, and Ashera Kelly Blue, the hair and makeup team
0:50.1	Oscar nominated for the film Golda.
0:53.7	Hello, ladies. Thank you so much for joining us.
0:56.8	Hello.
0:57.6	Hello.
0:57.9	I wanted to start by asking, you know, first of all, what each of you, what area of
1:05.2	expertise was on the film and also when you were brought on to the project, how much prep time did you have?
1:14.3	Well, I'm the hair and makeup designer, so I'm the head of the department, and I met Guy, and I think
1:22.5	six weeks later, we turned over on the film. So it was a very, very tight turnaround. So immediately
1:31.1	then I got the team together. Susie came on to do the prosthetics, Alex Rouse to do the
1:39.3	wig, Sarah Weatherburn the eyebrows. We had contact lenses made. It was very much a matter of me putting
1:46.1	a thing together, employing everybody to get started. Helen was in the States, so I literally
1:54.3	spoke to her on a Zoom and said, can we get your face cast done? Well, okay, I'm not sure about
2:00.1	prosthetics, but let's do it and we'll see whether
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