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The Next Best Picture Podcast

Interviews With "Joker" Costume Designer Mark Bridges & Makeup Team Nicki Ledermann & Kay Georgiou

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

"Joker" leads this year's Academy Awards with 11 nominations. Two of those nominations are for its Costume Design by Mark Bridges ("The Artist" & "Phantom Thread") and its Makeup & Hairstyling by Nicki Ledermann & Kay Georgiou ("The Irishman" & "Lincoln" respectively). All three of them were kind enough to talk about their work on the film, being nominated for an Oscar, working with an actor like Joaquin Phoenix, delivering a new spin on an already iconic character and more! Take a listen down below. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT 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, and this is Dan Baer's interview with the costume designer for Joker, Mark Bridges, and the makeup and hairstyling team for Joker, Nikki Leiderman and Kay Georgian.

0:16.0

My mother always tells me to smile and put on a happy face.

0:26.4

She told me I had a purpose to bring laughter and joy to the world.

0:32.6

Stop them! Is it just me?

0:45.7

Or is it getting crazier out there?

0:49.8

Welcome, everyone, to the next best picture podcast.

0:54.1

We are talking with the newly Oscar-nominated Mark Bridges, the costume designer for Joker, and two-time Oscar winner.

1:04.9

Mark Bridges, sir, how are you doing?

1:09.0

I'm great.

1:10.1

I'm great.

1:10.6

Thank you for asking all as well here with 11 nominations.

1:16.4

Yeah, the most nominated movie of the year that's quite an achievement.

1:21.7

Congratulations to you, of course, on your fourth Oscar nomination.

1:26.3

The last time we saw you, you won a jet ski on the 2017 Oscars for having the shortest

1:37.7

speech of the evening, which is quite a feat.

1:40.8

And I hear that you actually donated the jet ski back. Is that correct?

1:47.7

I donated it to the motion picture television fund because I don't jet ski. And I thought, well,

1:56.9

it was a motion picture event on television, so who better to get it?

2:02.7

They're a great charity that was formed by Mary Pickford many, many years ago,

2:08.4

and it's for the industry, by the industry.

2:11.9

So it went to a very good cause, and they auctioned it off online and happy for them to have it.

2:18.2

I also got an Oscar that to have it. I also

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