Sandy Powell - Costume Designer

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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EPISODE 103 - SANDY POWELL - Costume Designer

Team Deakins talks with the celebrated costume designer, Sandy Powell (THE FAVOURITE, VELVET GOLDMINE, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE). We delve into many things, such as how a costume designer helps the actor find his/her character, being mindful of the silhouette and shape of a design, and working with a director multiple times. She shares how she chooses her projects, how she works with color and approaches designing instinctively. She tells us about her different experiences with the director Todd Haynes and what the projects entailed. We also cover finding clothes versus making them, working with actors, doing a period project and how strict you are, and how to get past a block. And much more!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:10.4	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:17.0	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear
0:22.1	the audio.
0:24.1	If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod at RogerDekens.com.
0:34.6	This episode of the Team Deakin's podcast supported by Company 3, the world's leading post-production
0:41.0	group dedicated to collaborating with both emerging and established filmmakers.
0:48.6	Today we're happy to have with us a very talented costume designer to talk about what goes
0:53.3	into creating the right costumes that add to the story of the film. Her credits are
0:58.9	many and include the crying game, velvet gold mine, Shakespeare in love, far from heaven,
1:05.6	Hugo, Mary Poppins returns and the Irishman. We're happy to welcome Sandy Powell with
1:12.1	us today.
1:13.1	Sandy, thank you for doing this.
1:15.1	Yes.
1:16.1	You're having me.
1:17.1	It's an honor.
1:19.1	We'd like to start by asking how you got to where you are today. Was this something you
1:24.3	always knew you wanted to do or did you go down another path first? Tell us your story.
1:31.5	I actually didn't go down another path but it wasn't something I knew I wanted to do.
1:36.8	When I was very young yet, I'd always been obsessed with clothes and love them and also
1:44.2	drawing and art. As a very young child, I was brought up in the 60s and my mum used to
1:51.8	make my clothes and my younger sister so it was from very early age. I was used to watching
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