In HBO’s “Paterno,” director Barry Levinson tells the story of the Penn State pedophile scandal — in which assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with a pattern of child molestation that stretched over 15 years — and its effect on Joe Paterno, the winningest head football coach in Ncaa history. It was the job of makeup artist John Caglione Jr. and hairstylist Trish Almeida, first-time collaborators, to transform iconic actor Al Pacino into the bespectacled mentor whose legacy was called into question by events that rocked the region and shocked the nation.
Caglione has been working with Pacino since the 1990 film “Dick Tracy,” for which he won the Oscar for makeup. For “Paterno,” he studied the coach’s look and included a process that made the actor feel comfortable. “With Al, he likes to try on different noses. I don’t know if it’s part of his process in finding the character,...
Caglione has been working with Pacino since the 1990 film “Dick Tracy,” for which he won the Oscar for makeup. For “Paterno,” he studied the coach’s look and included a process that made the actor feel comfortable. “With Al, he likes to try on different noses. I don’t know if it’s part of his process in finding the character,...
- 4/19/2018
- by Daron James
- Variety Film + TV
You’ve already read my optimistic review of “Better Call Saul!” And you’ve read my interview with creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould . Now it’s time to hear from the stars of the thing, and the only regular actors to carry over from “Breaking Bad,” in Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks. At press tour, we spoke about their eagerness to revisit Saul Goodman (or, as he’s called here, Jimmy McGill) and Mike Ehrmantraut, how they did or didn’t attempt to look six years younger than they did on the previous show, and whether they feel any pressure to live up to the legacy of that show. Also, Banks — as he did throughout his multiple press tour appearances last month — took great pleasure at times in channeling his alter ego and making sure the questions he was being asked were acceptable. At what point in the final...
- 2/6/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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