MALGOSIA TURZANSKA - Costume Designer
Team Deakins
James Ellis Deakins
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 185 - Malgosia Turzanska - Costume Designer
In this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with costume designer Malgosia Turzanska (HAMNET, PEARL, AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS). Malgosia's life in film began after seeking refuge from a chemistry exam in a movie theater, and, with an assist from her friend, she soon found herself helping director Agnieszka Holland (Season 1, Episode 144) on JANOSIK. Throughout the episode, Malgosia uses specific experiences from the films she's worked on to discuss her design process. During our discussion of HAMNET, Malgoisa reflects on collaborating with her fellow countryman and cinematographer Lukasz Zal (Season 2, Episode 102), and she reveals the character details she focused on during the development of the costumes for Agnes and William Shakespeare, played by Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal (Season 2, Episode 44). She later discusses how she works with actors in the fitting room, and she shares how they all might put their heads together to find the character. Plus, Malgosia reveals how cold emailing director David Lowery (Season 2, Episode 60) led to her working on AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS early in her career.
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Recommended Viewing: HAMNET
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This episode is sponsored by Aputure & Picture Shop
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Season 2 of the Team Deacons podcast, |
| 0:07.0 | a collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest. |
| 0:13.0 | We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes. |
| 0:21.9 | This episode is sponsored by Aperture and its new Storm XT-52, the industry's most |
| 0:29.5 | powerful LED point source light. Brighter than a 6K HMI and powered by Aperture's revolutionary |
| 0:36.8 | Blair light engine, the Storm XT-52 is both a tunable |
| 0:41.9 | white light and also the brightest ever adjustable color LED. Storm XT-52, unrivaled output, |
| 0:51.5 | only from Aperture. |
| 0:56.6 | This episode is brought to you by Picture Shop, |
| 1:00.4 | whose colorists have created looks for many of the world's biggest films, |
| 1:05.2 | acclaim series, and celebrated independent and festival projects. |
| 1:10.4 | Picture Shop is proud to be a creative partner to the artists behind the camera who trust us to |
| 1:16.3 | help shape their final vision. Visit PictureShop.com to get in touch and mention team deacons |
| 1:24.1 | for special rate consideration. |
| 1:29.7 | Today we're speaking with a costume designer. Her credits include Hell or High Water, |
| 1:35.2 | Train Dreams, and Hamnet. We're pleased to welcome Malgosha Trizanska. Malgosa, thank you for doing this. |
| 1:43.6 | Yeah, welcome. Thank you so much for doing this. Yeah, welcome. |
| 1:46.3 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:52.5 | We'd like to start with our normal question, which is, how did you get to where you are today? |
| 1:55.2 | Is this something that you wanted to do as a kid? |
| 1:58.3 | Were you the best dressed kid on the block? |
| 2:00.5 | Or was this something you found out later? Yeah, and you were born in Krakow, right? |
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