Young Rock (NBC) “Dwayne Johnson and I are both the same vintage,” Young Rock hair and makeup lead Katherine Brown jokes. “So we pretty much have the same ’80s experience.&…
“Due to COVID, we didn’t have a lot of run-up time with some of the performers,” she explains, adding that she had to rely on other departments for help. They even asked the casting department to snag the actors who already had some of the hairstyles they were looking for, such as longer hair for men and women with curly locks.
“We basically just had to say, ‘Look, we don’t have loads of time with extras. Can you just make sure they don’t have these things?’ ” Brown adds. “So we gave them a list of all the modern sort of things that, you know, we definitely didn’t see in that sort of mid-’80s [time period].”