'Maestro' makeup artist Kazu Hiro said Bradley Cooper pushed up the shoot's call time to 1 a.m. to endure five hours of makeup so he could direct parts of the film looking like Leonard Bernstein.
Makeup artist Kazu Hiro said director-star Cooper pushed up the call time by two hours so he could"set up the shoot" while looking like Bernstein.set like a finely orchestrated piece of music — right down to directing portions of the film while wearing makeup and prosthetics that took five hours to apply.film, Cooper moved up some of the film's early-as-hell call times so he could appear to the crew in character as Bernstein.
"The last stage, he had covered pretty much everywhere, the bodysuit and arms. That took over 5 hours," Hiro told an audience Monday night at the film'sscreening. He recounted his process of transforming Cooper into Bernstein at various periods of his life — the most difficult, he said, was morphing Cooper into a man of over 70 years old.
"The last stage, the whole time, our call time was 1 in the morning," Hiro continued. "The other thing was he wanted makeup to be finished before the crew call, so he would appear as Lenny to set up the shoot and everything. That also kind of made our call time two hours earlier than normal, so that was quite tough.
"[We had to] keep adding because as he gets older, we had to add more elements," he said. "The younger stage was the nose and lips and chin and a wig. After the third stage, he started having cheek and neck [additions.]" Hiro and the other creatives from the film on stage at the NYFF screening — including writer Josh Singer, costume designer Mark Bridges, production designer Kevin Thompson, conducting consultant Yannick Nézet-Séguin, sound mixer Steve Morrow, and Bernstein's daughter, Jaime — did not address the controversy surrounding Cooper's transformation, which saw some in support of Cooper, in which they said he "included" the trio "along every step" of making the...
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