PENNY ROSE - Costume Designer

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Costume designer Penny Rose (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, THE COMMITMENTS) joins us on this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. Despite dressing actors at a local theatre (as a teenager) and later working alongside fashion designer Elio Fiorucci (as an interpreter), costume design didn’t occur to Penny as a career path until she found herself in the position (as the last-minute backup) on a commercial for director Adrian Lyne. Penny spent the next decade working with and learning from the preeminent English commercial directors of the time, following them into features and further developing her abilities as a costume designer. Penny later breaks down the costume department for us, and we discuss what qualities she looks for in her team members. We also learn how she builds out the look of a character with the director and the actor and of the diplomacy she exercises between the two when a disagreement arises. Towards the end, we reflect on the demands and pleasures of the vagabond lifestyle of a filmmaker.

This episode is sponsored by Aputure & the Dallas Film Commission

Instagram: @aputure.lighting & @dallasfilmcommission

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of
0:08.8	informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest. We never know where the conversation
0:15.6	will take us so listen in and see where it goes. This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a company with a global footprint spanning four continents.
0:28.0	Aperture is a driving force in LED cinema technology, renowned for their cutting edge lighting and
0:35.1	software solutions.
0:37.0	focused on enabling filmmakers to achieve their creative vision,
0:41.0	they've built a lighting ecosystem of over 20 different fixtures that can
0:45.8	be controlled wirelessly through their software platform, CITES Link. This episode is probably link.
0:59.6	This episode is proudly sponsored by the Dallas Film Commission, which is dedicated to showcasing Dallas as a premier destination for productions of all sizes.
1:04.0	The Dallas Film Commission offers a wide range of support with their expertise in locations,
1:10.0	talented crews, top-notch sound stages, and enticing incentives.
1:17.0	Dallas is your one-stop shop to turn your creative vision into reality, so get ready to elevate your next production by filming in Dallas
1:26.7	with the support of the Dallas Film Commission.
1:29.7	Today we're speaking to a costume designer. If you've ever seen a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, you've seen her work.
1:39.0	Among our other credits are Evita, Mission Impossible, The Lone Ranger, and Men in Black International.
1:46.1	We're pleased to welcome Penny Rose.
1:48.4	Penny, thank you for doing this.
1:50.1	Yes, welcome.
1:51.1	It's a pleasure.
1:52.1	We'd like to start with our normal question, which is, how did you get to where you are today?
1:57.8	Is this something you always thought you wanted to do, or is it something you found later in life? I sort of fell upon it by accident. I got a job in my
2:08.1	local theatre in my school holidays when I was 16 and I ended up helping them to dress the actors and I thought this is quite fun, you know, I was working at night, which was kind of pretty grown up.
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