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Reportedly, Sebastian Stan clocks in at 6 feet tall, comparable with 6-foot-2 Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, whom the actor plays in Pam & Tommy. Co-star Lily James hits 5-foot-7 in flats, which corresponds with Pamela Anderson. But, via extensive research, Pam & Tommy costume designer Kameron Lennox determined that Anderson’s documented height may be with her trademark 4-inch heels on.
In the Hulu limited series (nominated for an Emmy for outstanding contemporary costumes), James often wore Anderson-style high heels, such as for an incognito trip to the library to access the nascent internet, where her Christian Louboutin boots (a take on Uggs) brought James near Stan’s height. But, in the preceding scene, shot from the waist up, James actually stood flat-foot for a tension-filled conversation with Stan as the hotheaded Tommy. “It was so important that [Pam] felt smaller, like she’s vulnerable,...
Reportedly, Sebastian Stan clocks in at 6 feet tall, comparable with 6-foot-2 Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, whom the actor plays in Pam & Tommy. Co-star Lily James hits 5-foot-7 in flats, which corresponds with Pamela Anderson. But, via extensive research, Pam & Tommy costume designer Kameron Lennox determined that Anderson’s documented height may be with her trademark 4-inch heels on.
In the Hulu limited series (nominated for an Emmy for outstanding contemporary costumes), James often wore Anderson-style high heels, such as for an incognito trip to the library to access the nascent internet, where her Christian Louboutin boots (a take on Uggs) brought James near Stan’s height. But, in the preceding scene, shot from the waist up, James actually stood flat-foot for a tension-filled conversation with Stan as the hotheaded Tommy. “It was so important that [Pam] felt smaller, like she’s vulnerable,...
- 7/26/2022
- by Fawnia Soo Hoo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Makeup department head Zoe Hay and hair department head Michael Reitz accepted a unique creative opportunity when they joined NBC’s “This Is Us” six years ago. They were tasked with aging family matriarch Rebecca Pearson, played by Mandy Moore, from age 16 to 80. “It was an unusual challenge,” Hay says, recalling the early days of the show, which just concluded its final season.
The family drama, which has earned 38 Primetime Emmy nominations including four for hair and makeup, is a multigenerational story that spans more than six decades and centers on the Pearson family at various points in their lives. The Pearsons’ story unfolds in a nonlinear way, and when Hay and Reitz signed on, no one realized what the work would entail — nor how many hours it would take. Between skull caps and wig placement, it often took about 60 minutes just to get Moore’s hair right.
Applying the...
The family drama, which has earned 38 Primetime Emmy nominations including four for hair and makeup, is a multigenerational story that spans more than six decades and centers on the Pearson family at various points in their lives. The Pearsons’ story unfolds in a nonlinear way, and when Hay and Reitz signed on, no one realized what the work would entail — nor how many hours it would take. Between skull caps and wig placement, it often took about 60 minutes just to get Moore’s hair right.
Applying the...
- 5/31/2022
- by Karen M. Peterson
- Variety Film + TV
“I’m not a funny person so I don’t know how I got into comedy,” says costume designer Michelle R. Cole, explaining how surprising it is that she wound up working on shows like “In Living Color” and “Black-ish” after coming from a theater background and studying period design. We talked with Cole and her fellow costume designers Janie Bryant (“1883”), Kameron Lennox (“Pam and Tommy”), Hala Bahmet (“This is Us”), Ian Fulcher (“A Very British Scandal”) and Laura Montgomery (“What We Do in the Shadows”) about the periods and settings they’d most like the design for. Watch the Gold Derby “Meet the Experts” group roundtable discussion above. Click on each name to view that person’s individual video chat.
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“I love doing period, the 1800s,” Cole adds. “I went to college in Kentucky, so that’s what I studied, and I have never done any of it.
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“I love doing period, the 1800s,” Cole adds. “I went to college in Kentucky, so that’s what I studied, and I have never done any of it.
- 5/28/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
“This is Us” costume designer Hala Bahmet earned an Emmy nomination in 2018 for a wedding episode of the NBC family drama about the Pearson family across decades of their lives. She dressed another wedding this year for the sixth and final season of the show, but that actually wasn’t the biggest challenge for her department this year. We talked with Bahmet as part of our “Meet the Experts” TV costume designers panel. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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“I love making the wedding dresses. Those are my favorite,” she explains about crafting Kate (Chrissy Metz) another custom gown for her second trip down the aisle. “It was challenging because each one had to be different because they’re two different weddings, two different times in her life.” But bridal gowns have got nothing on time travel: “Overall the most challenging thing about our show...
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“I love making the wedding dresses. Those are my favorite,” she explains about crafting Kate (Chrissy Metz) another custom gown for her second trip down the aisle. “It was challenging because each one had to be different because they’re two different weddings, two different times in her life.” But bridal gowns have got nothing on time travel: “Overall the most challenging thing about our show...
- 5/28/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Six top TV costume designers will reveal secrets behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022 Emmy Awards contenders. They will participate in two video discussions to premiere on Wednesday, May 25, at 4:00 p.m. Pt; 6:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Daniel Montgomery and a roundtable chat with all of the group together.
RSVP today to our entire ongoing Emmy contenders panel series by clicking here to book your free reservation. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.
This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following 2022 contenders:
Black-ish (ABC)
Synopsis: A couple struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
Bio: Michelle R. Cole was an eight-time Emmy nominee for “Black-ish” and “In Living Color.” Other projects have included “Martin,...
RSVP today to our entire ongoing Emmy contenders panel series by clicking here to book your free reservation. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.
This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following 2022 contenders:
Black-ish (ABC)
Synopsis: A couple struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
Bio: Michelle R. Cole was an eight-time Emmy nominee for “Black-ish” and “In Living Color.” Other projects have included “Martin,...
- 5/19/2022
- by Chris Beachum and Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched the fifth season finale of “This Is Us.”
Mandy Moore has a proposal for the final season of This Is Us: a destination wedding.
When the NBC drama returns in 2022 for its sixth season, the series will spend a great deal of time filling in the blanks between the present-day story of the Pearson family and the glimpses of the future that creator Dan Fogelman has parceled out throughout the run of the show. But, the creator confirmed to Variety, it’ll also tie up some loose story threads relating to the past — most importantly, how widow Rebecca Pearson (Moore) came to be married to her late husband’s best friend, Miguel (Jon Huertas).
Past seasons revealed that the couple reconnected many years after Jack’s (Milo Ventimiglia) death via social media, but that’s about it. Fogelman said...
Mandy Moore has a proposal for the final season of This Is Us: a destination wedding.
When the NBC drama returns in 2022 for its sixth season, the series will spend a great deal of time filling in the blanks between the present-day story of the Pearson family and the glimpses of the future that creator Dan Fogelman has parceled out throughout the run of the show. But, the creator confirmed to Variety, it’ll also tie up some loose story threads relating to the past — most importantly, how widow Rebecca Pearson (Moore) came to be married to her late husband’s best friend, Miguel (Jon Huertas).
Past seasons revealed that the couple reconnected many years after Jack’s (Milo Ventimiglia) death via social media, but that’s about it. Fogelman said...
- 5/26/2021
- by Jean Bentley
- Variety Film + TV
“This Is Us” star Milo Ventimiglia considers his character Jack Pearson to be “the dad we all had, or wanted to have” because “Jack inspires people on how they could possibly live their lives.” The two-time Emmy nominee relates most to Pearson’s simplicity — something evident in his own wardrobe. “Some people take bolder approaches and want to stand out; I like to blend in. I just like to be classy, simple, and timeless,” he says.
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Watching awards shows as a child motivated Ventimiglia to work harder so he could be there. “Whenever Whoopi Goldberg would host, at the end of a telecast, she would talk to the kids at home, and I always thought she was talking to me,” he says. Ventimiglia first attended the Emmys with drama series nominee “Heroes.” “I just kind of put myself together,” recalls the California native, who’s typically a “black T-shirt, blue jeans,...
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Watching awards shows as a child motivated Ventimiglia to work harder so he could be there. “Whenever Whoopi Goldberg would host, at the end of a telecast, she would talk to the kids at home, and I always thought she was talking to me,” he says. Ventimiglia first attended the Emmys with drama series nominee “Heroes.” “I just kind of put myself together,” recalls the California native, who’s typically a “black T-shirt, blue jeans,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Jasmin Rosemberg
- Variety Film + TV
The death of fashion and costume designer Karl Lagerfeld cast somewhat of a shadow over the usually jubilant Costume Designers Guild Awards — the only award show where clothes literally steal the spotlight away from actors — which was held at the Beverly Hilton on Tuesday night. Here it was obvious that Lagerfeld’s impact on Hollywood went far beyond an uncredited cameo in “Zoolander.”
Glenn Close, who was being honored with the spotlight award, recalled her one and only encounter with Lagerfeld. “I’m not deep into the world of fashion, but I did meet him personally on the set of ‘101 Dalmatians’ and we had this incredible photo shoot,” Close said. “He was wonderful — I got along really well with him. And the thing that I find so impressive is that he designed himself, you know? This person with the high collars and the dark glasses and the gloves. It’s like: Wow,...
Glenn Close, who was being honored with the spotlight award, recalled her one and only encounter with Lagerfeld. “I’m not deep into the world of fashion, but I did meet him personally on the set of ‘101 Dalmatians’ and we had this incredible photo shoot,” Close said. “He was wonderful — I got along really well with him. And the thing that I find so impressive is that he designed himself, you know? This person with the high collars and the dark glasses and the gloves. It’s like: Wow,...
- 2/20/2019
- by James Patrick Herman
- Variety Film + TV
The Costume Designers Guild has announced its nominees in film and television categories for 2018.
In the contemporary film races, “Crazy Rich Asians” was nominated alongside “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” “Ocean’s 8,” “A Star Is Born” (extending its streak of nominations from every single industry group so far) and “Widows.”
For period film, nominees were “BlacKkKlansman,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Favourite,” “Mary Poppins Returns” and “Mary Queen of Scots.”
Nominated for sci-fi/fantasy were “Aquaman,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Black Panther,” “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” and “A Wrinkle in Time.”
In the television categories, nominees included “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” “This Is Us,” “Glow,” “Outlander,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Star Trek: Discovery” and “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.”
Previously announced, the guild’s Career Achievement and Distinguished Collaborator honors will go to Ruth E. Carter and Ryan Murphy, respectively.
Full list of nominees below.
In the contemporary film races, “Crazy Rich Asians” was nominated alongside “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” “Ocean’s 8,” “A Star Is Born” (extending its streak of nominations from every single industry group so far) and “Widows.”
For period film, nominees were “BlacKkKlansman,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Favourite,” “Mary Poppins Returns” and “Mary Queen of Scots.”
Nominated for sci-fi/fantasy were “Aquaman,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Black Panther,” “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” and “A Wrinkle in Time.”
In the television categories, nominees included “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” “This Is Us,” “Glow,” “Outlander,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Star Trek: Discovery” and “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.”
Previously announced, the guild’s Career Achievement and Distinguished Collaborator honors will go to Ruth E. Carter and Ryan Murphy, respectively.
Full list of nominees below.
- 1/10/2019
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Variety Film + TV
At long last “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” has entered awards season thanks to the 21st Costume Designers Guild Awards. The Cga has announced its 2019 nominees in three film categories, seven television categories, and one short form design category, and the group brings expected Oscar contenders up against some fun, lighter fare like “Mamma Mia!” and “A Wrinkle in Time.”
A majority of IndieWire awards editor Anne Thompson’s current predictions to land Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design are represented by the Cdga. Erin Benach (“A Star Is Born”) and Ruth Carter (“Black Panther”) are competing in the Excellence in Contemporary Film and Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film categories, respectively, while Julian Day (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) and Sandy Powell (“The Favourite”) are nominated in the Excellence in Period Film. Powell is a double nominee, with her work on “Mary Poppins Returns” also nominated for Excellence in Period Film.
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A majority of IndieWire awards editor Anne Thompson’s current predictions to land Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design are represented by the Cdga. Erin Benach (“A Star Is Born”) and Ruth Carter (“Black Panther”) are competing in the Excellence in Contemporary Film and Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film categories, respectively, while Julian Day (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) and Sandy Powell (“The Favourite”) are nominated in the Excellence in Period Film. Powell is a double nominee, with her work on “Mary Poppins Returns” also nominated for Excellence in Period Film.
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- 1/10/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The Costume Designers Guild has nominated 15 different movies for the 21st Costume Designers Guild Awards, singling out two films about the Stuart line of English monarchs, two based in the rock and funk of the 1970s, three about superheroes and others about Abba-singing lovers, female thieves and crazy rich Asians.
In the CDGA’s Excellence in Period Film category, the nominees are “BlacKkKlansman,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Favourite,” “Mary Poppins Returns” and “Mary Queen of Scots.”
In Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film, the guild nominated “Aquaman,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Black Panther,” “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” and “A Wrinkle in Time.”
And in Excellence in Contemporary Film, the nominees are “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” “Ocean’s 8,” “A Star Is Born” and “Widows.”
Sandy Powell received two nominations,...
In the CDGA’s Excellence in Period Film category, the nominees are “BlacKkKlansman,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Favourite,” “Mary Poppins Returns” and “Mary Queen of Scots.”
In Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film, the guild nominated “Aquaman,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Black Panther,” “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” and “A Wrinkle in Time.”
And in Excellence in Contemporary Film, the nominees are “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” “Ocean’s 8,” “A Star Is Born” and “Widows.”
Sandy Powell received two nominations,...
- 1/10/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Cdga Nominations: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’, ‘Black Panther’ Among Pics Fitted For Costume Designers’ List
The final alterations and trims have been made, so now we have the list of nominations for the Costume Designers Guild’s 21st annual Cdga. The awards will be handed out February 19 during the ceremony at the Beverly Hilton. Read the list below.
The top film and TV noms each are split into three categories — contemporary, period and sci-fi/fantasy. A number of awards-season regulars made the cut on the film side, with noms going to the costumers behind A Star Is Born, Crazy Rich Asains, BlackKklansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite and 2018’s top-grossing domestic release, Black Panther. The No. 1 film of last year worldwide, Avengers, Infinity War, also scooped a nomination.
“I would like to congratulate all of the nominees of the 2019 Costume Designers Guild Awards,” said Salvador Perez, President of Cdg Local 892. “This year, we are especially thrilled to include the nominees for our brand-new Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television category.
The top film and TV noms each are split into three categories — contemporary, period and sci-fi/fantasy. A number of awards-season regulars made the cut on the film side, with noms going to the costumers behind A Star Is Born, Crazy Rich Asains, BlackKklansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite and 2018’s top-grossing domestic release, Black Panther. The No. 1 film of last year worldwide, Avengers, Infinity War, also scooped a nomination.
“I would like to congratulate all of the nominees of the 2019 Costume Designers Guild Awards,” said Salvador Perez, President of Cdg Local 892. “This year, we are especially thrilled to include the nominees for our brand-new Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television category.
- 1/10/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Will “This Is Us” become the first broadcast network Emmy winner for Best Drama Series since Fox’s “24” in 2006? The NBC family drama was nominated last year, which made it the first broadcast nominee since CBS’s “The Good Wife” in 2011. It additionally scored eight acting nominations and won two of them: Best Drama Actor for Sterling K. Brown and Best Drama Guest Actor for Gerald McRaney. Can it build on that success in its second season? Gold Derby recently spoke with stars Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley, and Susan Kelechi Watson, as well as costume designer Hala Bahmet. Scroll down and click on their names below to be taken to their full interviews.
Ventimiglia received his career-first Emmy nomination last year for Best Drama Actor for playing Jack Pearson, the family patriarch. He admires Jack because he is so genuine and “tries to take responsibility for...
Ventimiglia received his career-first Emmy nomination last year for Best Drama Actor for playing Jack Pearson, the family patriarch. He admires Jack because he is so genuine and “tries to take responsibility for...
- 6/20/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Costume design isn’t all fancy designer clothes and period outfits. Sometimes the costume designers themselves have to give the clothes off their backs.
“I took my bra off for Lisa Bonet. She forgot her bra,” Michelle Cole said during Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts: Costume Designers panel featuring four top Emmy contenders, moderated by this author (watch above). Cole was working as a customer under the late Palmer Brown on “A Different World” at the time. “I had to take my bra off for her and give it to her. She had no choice.”
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At least she only had to donate one piece of clothing, unlike “This Is Us” costume designer Hala Bahmet. “I’m not going to name names, but once, literally the actress and I looked at each other and...
“I took my bra off for Lisa Bonet. She forgot her bra,” Michelle Cole said during Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts: Costume Designers panel featuring four top Emmy contenders, moderated by this author (watch above). Cole was working as a customer under the late Palmer Brown on “A Different World” at the time. “I had to take my bra off for her and give it to her. She had no choice.”
See How ‘Black-ish’ costume designer Michelle Cole made the Johnsons the most stylish family on TV [Exclusive Video Interview]
At least she only had to donate one piece of clothing, unlike “This Is Us” costume designer Hala Bahmet. “I’m not going to name names, but once, literally the actress and I looked at each other and...
- 6/12/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Mari-An Ceo has proven herself wrong. During Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts: Costume Designers panel, moderated by this author, Ceo revealed that she initially turned down styling the NBC series because “I said it could not be done.” The period-specific costumes in the drama, in which its three heroes Lucy (Abigail Spencer), Wyatt (Matt Lanter) and Rufus (Malcolm Barrett) time-travel, would be a daunting task to accomplish in a movie, but tackling new time period every week — and a time period is never repeated — “just is not possible,” Ceo thought.
“[Co-creator] Eric Kripke, who I’ve worked with before and had great confidence in me, said, ‘Please, just go up to Canada and just get it going. We just really want to do this show. We’ll figure it out as we go and we’ll back you up. We’ll be there for you,’” Ceo recalled. “I said I...
“[Co-creator] Eric Kripke, who I’ve worked with before and had great confidence in me, said, ‘Please, just go up to Canada and just get it going. We just really want to do this show. We’ll figure it out as we go and we’ll back you up. We’ll be there for you,’” Ceo recalled. “I said I...
- 6/8/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Hala Bahmet didn’t know what she was getting into when she agreed to be the costume designer for “This Is Us.” Bahmet had styled the pilots of “This Is Us” and “Riverdale,” and when both were picked up to series, she had to choose one, she revealed at Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts: Costume Designers panel, moderated by this author (watch above). At the time, she had very little info to go on about the NBC drama — it was still untitled and no one knew about the multiple-timeline format.
“In the pilot, we really just show the two eras: what’s 1979-1980 and then contemporary. And none of us knew what the storylines were going to be going forward in the series. And we didn’t know we were always going to be in a minimum of four decades at all times, every few days,” Bahmet said. “I asked [my crew], I said,...
“In the pilot, we really just show the two eras: what’s 1979-1980 and then contemporary. And none of us knew what the storylines were going to be going forward in the series. And we didn’t know we were always going to be in a minimum of four decades at all times, every few days,” Bahmet said. “I asked [my crew], I said,...
- 6/8/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Meet top Emmy contenders for costume design at Gold Derby’s exclusive Q&A panel on Tuesday, June 5 at 7 p.m. Pt in Los Angeles.
Limited free seating – RSVP soon. See our lively discussion of what makes TV costume design great with Hala Bahmet (“This Is Us”), Mari-an Ceo (“Timeless”), Michelle Cole, Daniel Lawson (“The Good Fight”).
Moderated by our Senior Editor Joyce Eng. Landmark Theater, 10850 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064. Make your reservation via email: rsvp@goldderby.com...
Limited free seating – RSVP soon. See our lively discussion of what makes TV costume design great with Hala Bahmet (“This Is Us”), Mari-an Ceo (“Timeless”), Michelle Cole, Daniel Lawson (“The Good Fight”).
Moderated by our Senior Editor Joyce Eng. Landmark Theater, 10850 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064. Make your reservation via email: rsvp@goldderby.com...
- 6/5/2018
- by Tom O'Neil
- Gold Derby
This week’s slate of videos and podcasts on Deadline include a queen, hip-hop legends, and Oz’s first Latina Dorothy. Watch the videos and listen to the podcasts in the roundup below.
When the Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated Claire Foy sat down with Pete Hammond for the latest edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, she said she always knew that The Crown was only going to be two seasons before handing the role to another actress. We talk a lot about this groundbreaking role for her and what it has meant.
Besides teasing the conclusion of the 10-part series created and written by Kyle Long and mainly directed by Anthony Hemingway,...
When the Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated Claire Foy sat down with Pete Hammond for the latest edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, she said she always knew that The Crown was only going to be two seasons before handing the role to another actress. We talk a lot about this groundbreaking role for her and what it has meant.
Besides teasing the conclusion of the 10-part series created and written by Kyle Long and mainly directed by Anthony Hemingway,...
- 5/5/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Hala Bahmet, whose work on Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story earned her an Emmy nomination, takes Deadline behind the scenes of NBC’s hit drama This Is Us in the third installment of the Production Value video series.
Sitting down in her office on the Paramount lot, Bahmet explained what has driven her in her career as a costume designer, as well as discussing her latest gig on NBC’s hit drama.
“I think what I like most about being a costume designer is that it’s always something different, that we’re always creating something new,” she said. “Every eight days we get a new script, and we have no idea what’s going to be in it, and then we get to jump in and build that, whatever that is.”
When it came to This Is Us, the qualities that were attractive to Bahmet were the aspects...
Sitting down in her office on the Paramount lot, Bahmet explained what has driven her in her career as a costume designer, as well as discussing her latest gig on NBC’s hit drama.
“I think what I like most about being a costume designer is that it’s always something different, that we’re always creating something new,” she said. “Every eight days we get a new script, and we have no idea what’s going to be in it, and then we get to jump in and build that, whatever that is.”
When it came to This Is Us, the qualities that were attractive to Bahmet were the aspects...
- 5/3/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
If you’re still recovering from Jack and Rebecca’s fight on This Is Us, it’s time to put away the tissues and focus on something else: The glittering low-cut gown Rebecca wore on Tuesday’s season one finale. In fact Mandy Moore loved wearing the look so much, she wanted to steal it straight from set.
Calling the sequin gown “light, airy and not scratchy,” Moore recently told PeopleStyle it was her “favorite” look of the season.
“It fit like a glove,” Moore shared of the custom blue design featuring a plunging neckline and open-back, which Rebecca wears...
Calling the sequin gown “light, airy and not scratchy,” Moore recently told PeopleStyle it was her “favorite” look of the season.
“It fit like a glove,” Moore shared of the custom blue design featuring a plunging neckline and open-back, which Rebecca wears...
- 3/15/2017
- by Brittany Talarico
- PEOPLE.com
**Warning: This Is Us spoilers below
Mandy Moore just had the wedding of her dreams … on-screen.
Anyone who has watched This Is Us has probably fantasized about marrying Milo Ventimiglia (the smokeshow actor behind TV father of the year Jack Pearson). And for Moore playing Ventimiglia’s on-screen bride was pretty magical — thanks to the wedding dress she wore.
Moore collaborated with the show’s talented costume designer, Hala Bahmet, on finding the perfect bohemian gown for Jack and Rebecca’s wedding.
“We actually had three vintage dresses to choose from,” Moore tells PeopleStyle. “But in the end, I...
Mandy Moore just had the wedding of her dreams … on-screen.
Anyone who has watched This Is Us has probably fantasized about marrying Milo Ventimiglia (the smokeshow actor behind TV father of the year Jack Pearson). And for Moore playing Ventimiglia’s on-screen bride was pretty magical — thanks to the wedding dress she wore.
Moore collaborated with the show’s talented costume designer, Hala Bahmet, on finding the perfect bohemian gown for Jack and Rebecca’s wedding.
“We actually had three vintage dresses to choose from,” Moore tells PeopleStyle. “But in the end, I...
- 2/21/2017
- by Brittany Talarico
- PEOPLE.com
It seems like we haven’t talked this much about Mandy Moore since the early aughts when she was breaking our hearts in A Walk to Remember playing a (*15 Year Old Spoiler Alert*) high school student dying from Leukemia, and making us bust a move with pop sensations like “Candy.” But thanks to the new smash hit TV show This Is Us, Moore has made her return to the red carpet, most recently wowing at the Golden Globes in a very daring Naeem Khan gown with a deep, plunging neckline. And now she’s set to make another glamorous turn...
- 1/12/2017
- by Emily Kirkpatrick
- PEOPLE.com
Mandy Moore has been named host of the 19th Costume Designers Guild Awards. The actress and singer will take the stage Feb. 21 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The annual ceremony celebrates excellence in film, television and short-form costume design. "I am honored to be hosting this year's ceremony. I've always been in awe of my costume designers and am especially thrilled to be working with the brilliant Hala Bahmet on our series This Is Us," Moore, 32, said in a statement. "I'm excited to join in celebrating the art of costume design and help shine a spotlight on the artists who are so essential to character creation." The complete list of nominees was also...
- 1/12/2017
- E! Online
In 2013, the country responded to the provocative concept that on one night every year, any and all crime is made legal. Audiences turned The Purge into a surprise summer hit as the film debuted at No. 1 with an astonishing $34.1 million weekend at the domestic box office.
After witnessing the response to the film and listening to the conversations that it provoked, James DeMonaco (writer/director of The Purge and writer of The Negotiator, Assault on Precinct 13) quickly returned to the explosive universe that he created with an even more arresting idea for a sequel: placing the audience outside on the streets during the annual Purge.
A speculative thriller that shows us what occurs during The Purge outside of the confines of a suburban neighborhood, The Purge: Anarchy returns us to a dystopic future. Our government, now re-engineered by the New Founders of America (Nfa), has sanctioned its annual 12-hour...
After witnessing the response to the film and listening to the conversations that it provoked, James DeMonaco (writer/director of The Purge and writer of The Negotiator, Assault on Precinct 13) quickly returned to the explosive universe that he created with an even more arresting idea for a sequel: placing the audience outside on the streets during the annual Purge.
A speculative thriller that shows us what occurs during The Purge outside of the confines of a suburban neighborhood, The Purge: Anarchy returns us to a dystopic future. Our government, now re-engineered by the New Founders of America (Nfa), has sanctioned its annual 12-hour...
- 7/7/2014
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Toward the end of "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," Julianne Moore's plucky homemaker uncharacteristically snaps at her ne'er-do-well husband that she's no saint. Perhaps not, but she comes pretty darn close. Writer-director Jane Anderson has adapted Terry Ryan's best-selling valentine to her remarkable mom, subtitled "How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less," into a spirited comic drama, toplined by Moore's lovely performance. "Prize Winner" should be a leading entry, especially with females and older audiences.
Evelyn Ryan was an ardent member of a midcentury subculture called contesting, peopled mainly by word-savvy American housewives who entered the myriad jingle and slogan contests advertisers used to promote their products. In her case, it was less diversion than career, the cash and merchandise keeping her family afloat. It wasn't merely that Evelyn had six sons and four daughters to feed; counting her alcoholic husband (well played by Woody Harrelson), she had 11 kids. Anderson ("The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom," "Normal") neither skirts nor belabors the story's dark issues while kicking up some fun with the sloganeering.
At the film's outset, a $5,000 prize arrives just as the Ryans need to find a new place to live, providing the down payment on a clapboard house. But Evelyn, who earned the money, can keep her prim White Gloves on at the bank; she's not invited to sign the mortgage. This is 1956, when Miss America contestants confidently proclaim that women are too high-strung and emotional to hold national office.
Evelyn's unspoken indignation is clear, but her most extraordinary traits are a steadfast resilience and Zen-like devotion to the here and now, never lingering long enough in trying situations to feel put-upon or become bitter. And the trying moments are plentiful, from her weekly go-rounds forestalling creditors like the milkman (Simon Reynolds) to the nightly drinking binges of her husband, Kelly, which often turn violent. Self-reliance is her only choice; the cops tell her he'll sleep it off, and the priest (David Gardner) advises her to make a better home.
A one-time aspiring journalist, Evelyn doesn't coddle her needy husband but has limitless empathy for the stylish crooner's fall from grace into the "ranks of ordinary men" as a factory machinist. A cavernous freezer Evelyn wins provokes Kelly's rage because it's a constant reminder of his inability to fill it. While she happily brainstorms couplets, he offers a few self-loathing jingles. But Harrelson also provides evidence of the charmer who once romanced this bright woman.
Evelyn's only support system, besides her kids, is a group of high-achieving contesters who call themselves the Affadaisies and help each other craft haikus to consumerism. A writers workshop posing as a coffee klatch, the out-of-the-house adventure has an immediate effect on Evelyn, who stands up to Kelly with renewed vigor upon her return home (and comes up with a jingle in the process). It would have been good to see more of the Affadaisies, especially when Laura Dern plays the club's leader.
Contemporary audiences used to psychologizing might write off as denial Evelyn's cheeriness in the face of Kelly's spiteful anger. But Moore, whose luminosity has often graced more brittle, troubled characters, brings to life something deeper and wiser, something almost subversive in her character's refusal to be damaged. The film deftly avoids sappiness until Evelyn's everything-is-possible speech to daughter Tuff (Ellary Porterfield, well cast as the author, who has no Daddy's-girl sympathy for Kelly).
Ace design contributions from Edward T. McAvoy and Hala Bahmet re-create the period with verisimilitude and flair, particularly in the joyous set piece of a grocery store shopping spree -- just one of the fabulous prizes Evelyn Ryan won for her family.
THE PRIZE WINNER OF DEFIANCE, OHIO
DreamWorks Pictures
DreamWorks Pictures/Go Fish Pictures and Revolution Studios present
An ImageMovers production
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Jane Anderson
Based on the memoir "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less" by: Terry Ryan
Producers: Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis
Executive producer: Marty Ewing
Director of photography: Jonathan Freeman
Production designer: Edward T. McAvoy
Music: John Frizzell
Costume designer: Hala Bahmet
Editor: Robert Dalva
Cast:
Evelyn Ryan: Julianne Moore
Kelly Ryan: Woody Harrelson
Bruce Ryan (age 16): Trevor Morgan
Tuff Ryan (ages 13, 16, 18): Ellary Porterfield
Dortha Schaefer: Laura Dern
Ray the Milkman: Simon Reynolds
Father McCague: David Gardner
Mrs. Bidlack: Susan Merson
Rog Ryan (age 13): Erik Knudsen
MPAA rating PG-13...
Evelyn Ryan was an ardent member of a midcentury subculture called contesting, peopled mainly by word-savvy American housewives who entered the myriad jingle and slogan contests advertisers used to promote their products. In her case, it was less diversion than career, the cash and merchandise keeping her family afloat. It wasn't merely that Evelyn had six sons and four daughters to feed; counting her alcoholic husband (well played by Woody Harrelson), she had 11 kids. Anderson ("The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom," "Normal") neither skirts nor belabors the story's dark issues while kicking up some fun with the sloganeering.
At the film's outset, a $5,000 prize arrives just as the Ryans need to find a new place to live, providing the down payment on a clapboard house. But Evelyn, who earned the money, can keep her prim White Gloves on at the bank; she's not invited to sign the mortgage. This is 1956, when Miss America contestants confidently proclaim that women are too high-strung and emotional to hold national office.
Evelyn's unspoken indignation is clear, but her most extraordinary traits are a steadfast resilience and Zen-like devotion to the here and now, never lingering long enough in trying situations to feel put-upon or become bitter. And the trying moments are plentiful, from her weekly go-rounds forestalling creditors like the milkman (Simon Reynolds) to the nightly drinking binges of her husband, Kelly, which often turn violent. Self-reliance is her only choice; the cops tell her he'll sleep it off, and the priest (David Gardner) advises her to make a better home.
A one-time aspiring journalist, Evelyn doesn't coddle her needy husband but has limitless empathy for the stylish crooner's fall from grace into the "ranks of ordinary men" as a factory machinist. A cavernous freezer Evelyn wins provokes Kelly's rage because it's a constant reminder of his inability to fill it. While she happily brainstorms couplets, he offers a few self-loathing jingles. But Harrelson also provides evidence of the charmer who once romanced this bright woman.
Evelyn's only support system, besides her kids, is a group of high-achieving contesters who call themselves the Affadaisies and help each other craft haikus to consumerism. A writers workshop posing as a coffee klatch, the out-of-the-house adventure has an immediate effect on Evelyn, who stands up to Kelly with renewed vigor upon her return home (and comes up with a jingle in the process). It would have been good to see more of the Affadaisies, especially when Laura Dern plays the club's leader.
Contemporary audiences used to psychologizing might write off as denial Evelyn's cheeriness in the face of Kelly's spiteful anger. But Moore, whose luminosity has often graced more brittle, troubled characters, brings to life something deeper and wiser, something almost subversive in her character's refusal to be damaged. The film deftly avoids sappiness until Evelyn's everything-is-possible speech to daughter Tuff (Ellary Porterfield, well cast as the author, who has no Daddy's-girl sympathy for Kelly).
Ace design contributions from Edward T. McAvoy and Hala Bahmet re-create the period with verisimilitude and flair, particularly in the joyous set piece of a grocery store shopping spree -- just one of the fabulous prizes Evelyn Ryan won for her family.
THE PRIZE WINNER OF DEFIANCE, OHIO
DreamWorks Pictures
DreamWorks Pictures/Go Fish Pictures and Revolution Studios present
An ImageMovers production
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Jane Anderson
Based on the memoir "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less" by: Terry Ryan
Producers: Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis
Executive producer: Marty Ewing
Director of photography: Jonathan Freeman
Production designer: Edward T. McAvoy
Music: John Frizzell
Costume designer: Hala Bahmet
Editor: Robert Dalva
Cast:
Evelyn Ryan: Julianne Moore
Kelly Ryan: Woody Harrelson
Bruce Ryan (age 16): Trevor Morgan
Tuff Ryan (ages 13, 16, 18): Ellary Porterfield
Dortha Schaefer: Laura Dern
Ray the Milkman: Simon Reynolds
Father McCague: David Gardner
Mrs. Bidlack: Susan Merson
Rog Ryan (age 13): Erik Knudsen
MPAA rating PG-13...
- 10/7/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Toward the end of "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," Julianne Moore's plucky homemaker uncharacteristically snaps at her ne'er-do-well husband that she's no saint. Perhaps not, but she comes pretty darn close. Writer-director Jane Anderson has adapted Terry Ryan's best-selling valentine to her remarkable mom, subtitled "How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less," into a spirited comic drama, toplined by Moore's lovely performance. "Prize Winner" should be a leading entry, especially with females and older audiences.
Evelyn Ryan was an ardent member of a midcentury subculture called contesting, peopled mainly by word-savvy American housewives who entered the myriad jingle and slogan contests advertisers used to promote their products. In her case, it was less diversion than career, the cash and merchandise keeping her family afloat. It wasn't merely that Evelyn had six sons and four daughters to feed; counting her alcoholic husband (well played by Woody Harrelson), she had 11 kids. Anderson ("The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom," "Normal") neither skirts nor belabors the story's dark issues while kicking up some fun with the sloganeering.
At the film's outset, a $5,000 prize arrives just as the Ryans need to find a new place to live, providing the down payment on a clapboard house. But Evelyn, who earned the money, can keep her prim White Gloves on at the bank; she's not invited to sign the mortgage. This is 1956, when Miss America contestants confidently proclaim that women are too high-strung and emotional to hold national office.
Evelyn's unspoken indignation is clear, but her most extraordinary traits are a steadfast resilience and Zen-like devotion to the here and now, never lingering long enough in trying situations to feel put-upon or become bitter. And the trying moments are plentiful, from her weekly go-rounds forestalling creditors like the milkman (Simon Reynolds) to the nightly drinking binges of her husband, Kelly, which often turn violent. Self-reliance is her only choice; the cops tell her he'll sleep it off, and the priest (David Gardner) advises her to make a better home.
A one-time aspiring journalist, Evelyn doesn't coddle her needy husband but has limitless empathy for the stylish crooner's fall from grace into the "ranks of ordinary men" as a factory machinist. A cavernous freezer Evelyn wins provokes Kelly's rage because it's a constant reminder of his inability to fill it. While she happily brainstorms couplets, he offers a few self-loathing jingles. But Harrelson also provides evidence of the charmer who once romanced this bright woman.
Evelyn's only support system, besides her kids, is a group of high-achieving contesters who call themselves the Affadaisies and help each other craft haikus to consumerism. A writers workshop posing as a coffee klatch, the out-of-the-house adventure has an immediate effect on Evelyn, who stands up to Kelly with renewed vigor upon her return home (and comes up with a jingle in the process). It would have been good to see more of the Affadaisies, especially when Laura Dern plays the club's leader.
Contemporary audiences used to psychologizing might write off as denial Evelyn's cheeriness in the face of Kelly's spiteful anger. But Moore, whose luminosity has often graced more brittle, troubled characters, brings to life something deeper and wiser, something almost subversive in her character's refusal to be damaged. The film deftly avoids sappiness until Evelyn's everything-is-possible speech to daughter Tuff (Ellary Porterfield, well cast as the author, who has no Daddy's-girl sympathy for Kelly).
Ace design contributions from Edward T. McAvoy and Hala Bahmet re-create the period with verisimilitude and flair, particularly in the joyous set piece of a grocery store shopping spree -- just one of the fabulous prizes Evelyn Ryan won for her family.
THE PRIZE WINNER OF DEFIANCE, OHIO
DreamWorks Pictures
DreamWorks Pictures/Go Fish Pictures and Revolution Studios present
An ImageMovers production
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Jane Anderson
Based on the memoir "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less" by: Terry Ryan
Producers: Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis
Executive producer: Marty Ewing
Director of photography: Jonathan Freeman
Production designer: Edward T. McAvoy
Music: John Frizzell
Costume designer: Hala Bahmet
Editor: Robert Dalva
Cast:
Evelyn Ryan: Julianne Moore
Kelly Ryan: Woody Harrelson
Bruce Ryan (age 16): Trevor Morgan
Tuff Ryan (ages 13, 16, 18): Ellary Porterfield
Dortha Schaefer: Laura Dern
Ray the Milkman: Simon Reynolds
Father McCague: David Gardner
Mrs. Bidlack: Susan Merson
Rog Ryan (age 13): Erik Knudsen
MPAA rating PG-13...
Evelyn Ryan was an ardent member of a midcentury subculture called contesting, peopled mainly by word-savvy American housewives who entered the myriad jingle and slogan contests advertisers used to promote their products. In her case, it was less diversion than career, the cash and merchandise keeping her family afloat. It wasn't merely that Evelyn had six sons and four daughters to feed; counting her alcoholic husband (well played by Woody Harrelson), she had 11 kids. Anderson ("The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom," "Normal") neither skirts nor belabors the story's dark issues while kicking up some fun with the sloganeering.
At the film's outset, a $5,000 prize arrives just as the Ryans need to find a new place to live, providing the down payment on a clapboard house. But Evelyn, who earned the money, can keep her prim White Gloves on at the bank; she's not invited to sign the mortgage. This is 1956, when Miss America contestants confidently proclaim that women are too high-strung and emotional to hold national office.
Evelyn's unspoken indignation is clear, but her most extraordinary traits are a steadfast resilience and Zen-like devotion to the here and now, never lingering long enough in trying situations to feel put-upon or become bitter. And the trying moments are plentiful, from her weekly go-rounds forestalling creditors like the milkman (Simon Reynolds) to the nightly drinking binges of her husband, Kelly, which often turn violent. Self-reliance is her only choice; the cops tell her he'll sleep it off, and the priest (David Gardner) advises her to make a better home.
A one-time aspiring journalist, Evelyn doesn't coddle her needy husband but has limitless empathy for the stylish crooner's fall from grace into the "ranks of ordinary men" as a factory machinist. A cavernous freezer Evelyn wins provokes Kelly's rage because it's a constant reminder of his inability to fill it. While she happily brainstorms couplets, he offers a few self-loathing jingles. But Harrelson also provides evidence of the charmer who once romanced this bright woman.
Evelyn's only support system, besides her kids, is a group of high-achieving contesters who call themselves the Affadaisies and help each other craft haikus to consumerism. A writers workshop posing as a coffee klatch, the out-of-the-house adventure has an immediate effect on Evelyn, who stands up to Kelly with renewed vigor upon her return home (and comes up with a jingle in the process). It would have been good to see more of the Affadaisies, especially when Laura Dern plays the club's leader.
Contemporary audiences used to psychologizing might write off as denial Evelyn's cheeriness in the face of Kelly's spiteful anger. But Moore, whose luminosity has often graced more brittle, troubled characters, brings to life something deeper and wiser, something almost subversive in her character's refusal to be damaged. The film deftly avoids sappiness until Evelyn's everything-is-possible speech to daughter Tuff (Ellary Porterfield, well cast as the author, who has no Daddy's-girl sympathy for Kelly).
Ace design contributions from Edward T. McAvoy and Hala Bahmet re-create the period with verisimilitude and flair, particularly in the joyous set piece of a grocery store shopping spree -- just one of the fabulous prizes Evelyn Ryan won for her family.
THE PRIZE WINNER OF DEFIANCE, OHIO
DreamWorks Pictures
DreamWorks Pictures/Go Fish Pictures and Revolution Studios present
An ImageMovers production
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Jane Anderson
Based on the memoir "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less" by: Terry Ryan
Producers: Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis
Executive producer: Marty Ewing
Director of photography: Jonathan Freeman
Production designer: Edward T. McAvoy
Music: John Frizzell
Costume designer: Hala Bahmet
Editor: Robert Dalva
Cast:
Evelyn Ryan: Julianne Moore
Kelly Ryan: Woody Harrelson
Bruce Ryan (age 16): Trevor Morgan
Tuff Ryan (ages 13, 16, 18): Ellary Porterfield
Dortha Schaefer: Laura Dern
Ray the Milkman: Simon Reynolds
Father McCague: David Gardner
Mrs. Bidlack: Susan Merson
Rog Ryan (age 13): Erik Knudsen
MPAA rating PG-13...
- 10/4/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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