“It is always my goal to create a layer of truth for actors with my make-ups and suits,” said Academy Award winning make-up effects Artist Barney Burman.
He was speaking on Saturday at an onstage event within the Singapore International Film Festival.The presentation at the Project theater was moderated by Singaporean filmmaker Kirsten Tan (“Pop Aye”), who probed Burman on the extent that he had been influenced by legendary acting teacher Sanford Meisner.
The so-called “Meisner Technique” suggests that acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances.The make-up wiz, whose credit includes multiple Hollywood studio blockbusters such as the “Star Trek” franchise, “Tropic Thunder” and “Mission Impossible 3,” had studied with legendary teacher Sanford Meisner as a character actor.“[With make-ups and suits] you get a different look, different persona and different physicality.
Actors’ performances do change with those make-ups,” Burman explained.
“There was this one time my team did a four-hour long old-age make-up.
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