Interview With "The Ugly Stepsister" Hair & Makeup Team

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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"The Ugly Stepsister" is a 2025 satirical black comedy, body horror film written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt in her directorial debut. Drawing on the fairy tale "Cinderella," it retells a twisted tale of Elvira, who competes with her beautiful stepsister in a bloody battle for beauty. The film had its world premiere as the opening film of the Midnight section of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and has been shortlisted for Best Makeup & Hairstyling at the 98th Academy Awards. Hair & Makeup Designer Anne Catherine Sauerberg and Prosthetic Makeup Effects Designer Thomas Foldberg were both kind enough to spend some time talking with us about their work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Shudder from Independent Film Company. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... 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 and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Attention.
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0:10.0	Have you heard?
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0:28.3	Teas and season exclusions apply.
0:29.7	You are listening to the next best picture podcast, and this is MSSat.
0:34.0	This interview of the hair and makeup designer for the ugly step-sister,
0:39.3	and Cameron Sauerberg, and the prosthetic makeup effects designer Thomas Fulbergh.
0:43.3	Oh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I was so excited to see that it made it on to the makeup and hair styling shortlist.
1:06.0	It is so deserved. First congratulations on just that alone, let alone so much of the work that has gone
1:13.2	into this film. I can imagine that that was quite an emotional moment for the two of you.
1:19.2	Oh, yes. I text, OMG.
1:23.9	That's all you need, just OMG. Well, I had a chance to see this film at the premiere at Sundance, and I mean, seeing a lot of these looks and designs, and let alone those incredible prosthetics, I remember it was very late at night.
1:43.4	And so it made me a little afraid to go to sleep
1:46.4	later that evening, but that just tells you how wonderful all of it was. So really congratulations
1:53.1	on such wonderful achievements. I have to wonder, when you first learned that Emily wanted to do
1:59.8	this film and take on a new type of Cinderella story.
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