‘Timeless’ Embraces Costumes for the Ages, from Glam Hepburn to Abolitionist Tubman

The second and final season of “Timeless,” NBC’s time travel drama, embraces more inclusion and diversity, including encounters with abolitionist Harriet Tubman, suffragist Alice Paul, and blues musician Robert Johnson.

This greatly expanded the challenges and opportunities for costume designer Mari-An Ceo, who especially enjoyed “Hollywoodland,” in which she got to recreate Katherine Hepburn’s lavish Greek goddess gown from “The Philadelphia Story” for star Abigail Spencer.“The stories shifted and became more evolved [this season], but this was one of my favorites,” Ceo said.

“Going into Hollywood, it felt like we were making a movie and dressed all the people that worked on movies.

We made hundreds of background costumes.

We were on the Paramount lot and, finally, we were shooting where the place actually was supposed to be.”In “Hollywoodland,” the Lifeboat team of Lucy, Wyatt (Matt Lanter), and Rufus (Malcolm Barrett) travel to 1941 Hollywood to retrieve the stolen

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