Shauna Llewellyn and Ryan Reed, the makeup and hair department heads for Star Trek: Section 31, discuss their collaboration with Michelle Yeoh, the bold new looks for the characters, and the creative freedom they experienced while crafting the visual aesthetic of this unique Star Trek adventure.
Warning: This Interview Contains SPOILERS For Star Trek : Section 31 Star Trek : Section 31's makeup and hair department heads Shauna Llewellyn and Ryan Reed took Michelle Yeoh's Star Trek movie to another level. Both Reed and Llewellyn previously worked with Yeoh on Star Trek : Discovery, and they embraced the opportunity to upgrade the look of Yeoh's iconic character, Emperor Philippa Georgiou.
Set in an unexplored region of space and time in the Star Trek universe, Section 31 finds Emperor Georgiou pulled back into action to stop a new threat to the United Federation of Planets that ties back to her past sins in the Mirror Universe. Georgiou teams up with an eclectic group of superpowered Section 31 agents to save the galaxy. ScreenRant had the pleasure to chat with Shauna Llewellyn and Ryan Reed about achieving the fantastic looks for Star Trek: Section 31's characters, and the joys of working with Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh once again. Michelle Yeoh's Emperor Georgiou Got A Glow-Up In Section 31 'With Michelle's Input, We're Able To Take Her Section Look To Another Level.' ScreenRant: You have both worked with Michelle Yeoh on Star Trek: Discovery, and pre-Oscar. Was Discovery a similar experience as Section 31, or was Section 31 like another level for you? Ryan Reed: For me, it's twofold. Because I got the chance to work on season one of Disco, I was able to help create the world, especially with looks, With Burnham and all the looks that she went through, as well as Michelle, from her captain look, and then later when we see her in the Terran universe. And then towards the end, actually, I think we also saw her in that, in a pre-Section 31 look. So I was able to set that tone and be creative, but it was still at a different sort of level where I felt like we were just creating this whole new environment and world. We still had a lot of people to put in their two cents, as per usual. Actors have their say, producers have their say. And I felt like I did have a say, but it was a little say. On Section 31, I really felt that we were able to explore a sense of creativity and have nobody hold us back. That was such a great experience, and quite different from the Disco experience. Shauna Llewellyn: To Ryan's point. Discovery was very structured, especially makeup-wise. There's Starfleet, you have your Vulcans, and stuff like that. Most of it was a pre-existing look that we had to honor and kind of follow, whereas Section 31, we've never tapped into that section of space. So it was like anything goes, and we really got to design and create looks that were truly out of this world. It was just so much fun, but completely different. I still got creative fulfillment out of Discovery, but in a much different way. Section 31 is a different era of Star Trek, as you said, and outside of the Federation. Was pushing the envelope with some of the looks of the aliens and the humans one of the things that made you want to work on this project? Ryan Reed: Yes, definitely. For sure. Shauna Llewellyn: That and Michelle. In Discovery, we did have Georgiou, but we also slightly tapped into her Section look, and then we got to take that look and elevate it a bit with costumes and hair. And with Michelle's input, we're able to take her Section look to another level, and then all the other looks that went along with it. But it was kind of fun to do a spin-off of something that was loosely established in Discovery, and then take it to the next level. Let's talk a little bit about Michelle, who kind of had a glow-up. Her look is so much more elaborate, especially in the nightclub. Did Michelle have ideas about Georgiou and come to you with them, or was that more of a collaboration? Ryan Reed: For me, Michelle always has input. Which is great because Michelle Yeoh is someone who's basically done it all. And especially for us, we were working off the tail end of Wicked. So for me, the challenge was to create a look that she hasn't had before. And I'll tell you, Michelle has had almost every look in the book, so we had to differentiate between other things. And this one was pretty fun. I usually go off of the costumes as well, which helps a lot in in my designs, for sure. Shauna Llewellyn: Yeah, it was definitely a major collaboration between the costume, hair and myself,and definitely Michelle. But the costume -- especially to your note with the silver around the eyes -- is just seeing that dress almost made it easy for me to figure out which direction I wanted to take that look, which happens to be my favorite look of the show. Yeah, it was really just a collaboration, but it's really easy to get a visual once you get the costume involved. And then Ryan and I work together a lo
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