The Duchess - Costumes Featurette - In UK Cinemas 5th September - Pathe

[Music] um well basically we start off with the script we're given the script and then we collaborate with the director um just to see the feel of the film see what he's after we don't necessarily always certainly from my point of view always stick to period to the book just because often it would just look quite unattractive so we kind of soften the edges of the period just to make it look quite beautiful to look at you know reference material photographs of the actors discuss which way to go for the best also create a look that works with that actor you know it's okay being traditional and sticking to a period but if it doesn't work on the actress that that it's intended for then you don't actually achieve a look for that pleases everybody basically yeah you can't just take a portrait and say we'll do that you know superimpose what's in a portrait onto somebody it wouldn't work it would look very strange you work with the yeah you work with the actor and with the modern faces today often you'll have to cheat a period look it doesn't always [Music] work the manye put have C it on and and you've got this weird Contraption on your head you you stand differently you you feel different you um there's this huge kind of pressure and tighten and sense of being trapped and and that I think was very well that feels to me helpful to the character because you you are trapped by society and what you know it's so it's so stiff as these costumes are and yet incredibly beautiful and so they have an extraordinary effect and and I think that allows an act the actor myself to um to to to feel like I'm stepping into a completely different world and it's actually I find find it easier to make that transition because it's so different from Life as we know it now I don't think anything that I've done before as far as period things go could fully kind of uh prepare me for this one it it's the wigs more than anything else not this one this one's fine but there was a particular one in bath that was I think about 2 feet high or something ridiculous where I I couldn't lift my head it was so heavy I couldn't lift my head and so and Jula the dop was sort of saying um you're getting halfway you know halfway through the scene and and then we can't see our eyes anymore and and it was because my neck could not hold the weight of my own head so I don't know what that scene's going to be like um but I just want everybody to know when watching it I'm going through the most amazing amounts of pain but no I mean it does it's it's an extraordinary period as far as fashion and as far as sort of hair in particular goes it's quite it's quite crazy um and I think you can see that in the film

Channel: Pathe UK

Views: 40,100

Keywords: the, duchess, keira, knightley, ralph, fiennes, pathe, film, movie, trailer, teaser, period, drama, costume, duke, of, devonshire

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Length: 3min 5sec (185 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 02 2008