Windburned and Wild: Hair & Makeup as Storytelling in Wuthering Heights with Siân Miller
I love any opportunity I can get to speak with Siân Miller, and what luck it was to have her on for "Wuthering Heights" to discuss all things wild... and contained. Braids for days, vacuum masks, intricate hairstyles only to never have film coverage, and yes... sigh... windburned cheeks. I have known Siân since she worked on Cyrano- a beautiful treasure of a film that many people might not know about, and we dug into all things Saltburn last time, but today we will talk about the film that has us all in the beauty world swooning. What did you think of Wuthering Heights? Have you tried any of the looks yourself?
Siân and I also talked about where Hair and Makeup Falls on the priority list of time on shoot days- I’d love to hear from other craft departments about this topic. Makeup and Hair is often disregarded as a chunk of time allotted to vanity, when it is actually vital to the character creation and needs to be reestablished every shoot day. What are your thoughts on this as filmmakers and artists yourselves?
Learn more about the products Siân used on-set here:
0:00 - Intro
4:04 - When to Modernize the Story
6:12 - Working with Emerald Fennel
9:13 - Creating Cathy’s Hair
12:41 - The Thought Behind The Skin Room
14:17 - Matching Cathy to the Dining Room
17:17 - The Making Of Siân’s Favorite Scene
19:56 - Meaning Behind the Freckles
22:27 - Makeup is an Underappreciated Art
28:10 - Working with Jacob Elordi Again
30:26 - Outro
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