![]() Lab supervisor and make-up artist Steve Buscaino was running all the prosthetics. Harlow gave credit to so many people in their department that we couldn’t keep up with the names, but the head of the hair department, Gloria Pasqua Casny, cut the pieces and styled them, Harlow applied the prosthetics and Ken Niederbaumer was the key make-up artist. “Khanh was a workhorse and this would not have happened without her,” said Harlow.Įvery day Depp worked, the team needed a new prosthetic and because it took so long to do each piece, they found themselves only two or three prosthetics ahead of the shooting schedule. Who took the painstaking time to do this? Make-up effects hair artist Khanh Trance who used human hair and punched through every … single … strand. There were about 45 forehead pieces that needed to be done … and each took 22 hours to do.” “Each hair was individually punched into the prosthetic each time before it was put on. His eyebrows were covered so they are false eyebrows,” said Harlow. He’s got a prosthetic that goes from his cheeks and the bottom of his nose to the middle of his head. When you zoom in close, you don’t want to see lace, so we punched the hair into the silicone so it looked like it was coming out of the skin. “The movie hinged on the make-up being believable. Every hair on his Irish head - and that includes eyebrows - had to be plugged one at a time and by hand. We did a test with this look and it worked.”īut achieving the look of the boss of the sociopathic Winter Hill Gang took time - 22 hours to be exact. We didn’t finalize the look until five days before principal photography. “He saw a ‘Whitey’ Bulger in his head and he wanted to do it in that way. “Johnny is very much an advocate of make-up and finding the character in any way he can whether it is costume, props or make-up,” said Harlow. Why? Because he wanted to become Bulger in the way he envisioned. It was down to the wire - five days before principal photography was to begin - before Depp decided he was actually going to do the film. 'Black Mass' Review: Cold-Blooded Johnny Depp Burns Hot In Whitey Bulger Story “There is something in the eyes that speaks of a darkness and that’s what we were trying to achieve.” ![]() “We got to where we both felt it was the perfect combination of ‘Whitey’ Bulger and Johnny.” It was Depp who thought about changing the eye color and to the hue that it became. So we did five different tests.” They started with full prosthetics and then began scaling back little by little. “Initially, he wanted to look exactly like (James) ‘Whitey’ Bulger. “Typically when we start a project, especially when we start an extreme transformation, we talk about what elements make-up wise we want to bring to the character,” said Harlow. ![]() In a keen and detailed collaboration, Depp and Harlow (and his team) have created a Boston mafia boss whose psychopathy eminates from unflinching piercing blue eyes, stained teeth and eerie smile with an Irish complexion that gives little hint of the actor. ![]() But the transformation of Depp into mobster Whitey Bulger in Warner Bros.’ weekend opener Black Massshows the excellence of Harlow’s craft that is sure to have audiences doing a double take. Make-up designer Joel Harlow has worked with Johnny Depp on at least 10 films, creating such characters as the irreverent pirate Jack Sparrow in the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise, as the young and aged Tonto in The Lone Ranger, and as the colorful Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland.
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