Tag: Winston Churchill
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Bradley Cooper’s 70-Year-Old ‘Maestro’ Makeup ‘Took Over Five Hours’ to Get On; Prosthetics Team Got to Set at 1 A.M. Each Day to Transform Him
Working on Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” meant incredibly long hours for prosthetics master Kazu Hiro and his makeup team. Hiro, an Oscar winner for transforming Gary Oldman into Winston Churchill for “The Darkest Hour,” revealed at the New York Film Festival (via Entertainment Weekly) that he needed to be on set at 1 a.m. during parts…
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This Is the First Actor To Win an Oscar for Playing a Real-Life Person
There are few things that Hollywood likes more than an inspiring true story — unless it is “not letting the truth get in the way of a good story,” as a number of purportedly “historical” films can attest. There are always a slew of biopics and historical films nominated in the top Oscar categories in…
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‘Wildcat’: Cast, Release Window, Plot, and Everything We Know So Far
Biopics tend to hold a soft spot in the hearts of both critics and audiences alike. It’s not too difficult to see why, either: when the headlining character is a name embedded in the collective cultural consciousness, a certain amount of marketing has already been done for the film in the first place. Audiences are…