Latest / The Art of Costume Podcast / Interview with Mare of Easttown Costume Designer, Meghan Kasperlik
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- 0:06It was very important that all of the costumes really looked
- 0:08authentic and that they look lived in that, you know may
- 0:12person picked it up off the floor and you know smell them
- 0:15Bond and was like, oh, it's fine today.
- 0:17I can wear it one more time. This specific show was really
- 0:20meant to be. Who are these characters?
- 0:23What happens in a day to these people?
- 0:25And they don't change their clothes.
- 0:27It was really about how live And and can we make the characters?
- 0:43Hello and welcome to the art of costume blogcast.
- 0:46My name is Spencer Williams. And thank you so much for
- 0:48joining us for yet another bonus episode.
- 0:50I am so excited today to talk about one of my new favorite
- 0:53shows, mayor of East Town. I just finished binging the show
- 0:57this week and I am dizzy from how much I love it.
- 1:00I feel like I need to talk to someone about it.
- 1:02Luckily, for me today. I am honored to be joined.
- 1:04To buy a Emmy nominee costume designer mayor of East Town.
- 1:09Meghan Casper. Lick Meghan.
- 1:11Welcome to the broadcast. You so much for having me - I'm
- 1:14so excited to talk to you. I've been looking forward to
- 1:16this all week. I've been to show so quickly and
- 1:19whole time. I was just like, oh, I need to
- 1:21ask about this. I need to talk to about this.
- 1:23When is this interview happening?
- 1:24So I'm so happy. It's finally here.
- 1:26Thank you so much. I'm very, very excited to talk
- 1:29to you and talk about mayor and how much everyone loves it.
- 1:32I'm just so pleased that everyone really.
- 1:34He is like, grasping the authenticity of the characters.
- 1:38It's so crazy. I can't wait to talk to you
- 1:39about it. But first Emmy nominee, we have
- 1:42to talk about that. How does it feel to be
- 1:44nominated? It's great.
- 1:46I was actually nominated for Fahrenheit 451 a few years ago
- 1:49in the Sci-Fi category, but this one is extra special to me
- 1:53because I am really excited that people are seeing the
- 1:58storytelling of costume and it's not just about having a fashion
- 2:02moment in a contemporary costume that it's actually The
- 2:06authenticity of the characters of the costume like really
- 2:09elevated the storytelling. So that's really exciting that
- 2:12people are recognizing that totally.
- 2:13I mean, it's just feels so real. So with entik.
- 2:16And I just loved every second of it is just really transported
- 2:19you to this world, which one you're thinking of contemporary
- 2:21costumes are not really. Sometimes they're not always
- 2:24thinking about. Oh, we're transporting
- 2:25yourselves to this whole different world.
- 2:27It's just in Pennsylvania, but you really achieve that feat
- 2:31it's so awesome. Bring him.
- 2:33So let's get into it. And there's a quote that I love
- 2:36by the costume designer of Hamilton Paul Tazewell.
- 2:39And he says, if a costume is right, then it should get out of
- 2:42the way. It shouldn't go away, but it
- 2:44should get out of the way. So you could be in the moment
- 2:46and experience this world. I love their quote and I think
- 2:50your work of Mayor of East Towne.
- 2:51A really just takes that quote and runs all the way home with
- 2:55it, because the costume design for mayor of East Town is
- 2:57brilliant. And it's brilliant because it
- 3:00makes you feel like you're in this world.
- 3:02Like we were talking about. It's so incredibly.
- 3:04Authentic. It really captures the
- 3:06small-town, Pennsylvania feel. Can you first start by speaking
- 3:10to your approaching costuming? This authentic world was still
- 3:13holding to your Creative Touch sure.
- 3:15I wanted it was very important that all of the costumes really
- 3:18looked authentic and that they look lived in that, you know may
- 3:23person picked it up off the floor and you know smell them on
- 3:26and was like, oh, it's fine today.
- 3:27I can wear it one more time. It's the opposite of house,
- 3:32fashion moments, like eyes career work.
- 3:34Came with Patricia fields and it's like almost the opposite of
- 3:38the way presented. Yes.
- 3:41It's like night and day. Yeah, that's amazing.
- 3:44Business person, and she's really an amazing costume
- 3:45designer because she does think about the characters this
- 3:49specific show was really meant to be.
- 3:52Okay, who are these characters? What are their job?
- 3:55What are their sort of their professions?
- 3:57What are they doing? Are they going from work to
- 3:59their kids soccer game to cooking dinner at home, too?
- 4:04In the homework, with the kids to pay the bills.
- 4:07At night. It was really like, overall,
- 4:09what happens in a day to these people and they don't change
- 4:12their clothes. There's no like refinery29 day
- 4:15tonight, man. Taking our business.
- 4:18You know, what am I looking? Like, when I take this top off
- 4:21and change something? It was really about how lived
- 4:24and can we make the characters totally.
- 4:26Also, I live in New York and coming from that area.
- 4:30I was like, it's nothing needs to look cool.
- 4:33Like, no one's getting Rest except maybe the teenagers to be
- 4:36a little bit. Cool.
- 4:37It's more about functionality and I wanted to make sure that I
- 4:41was really making these characters.
- 4:44Look exactly like the community. I grew up in a suburb, Michigan
- 4:48and suburb of Grand Rapids and some of my aunts and uncles live
- 4:54on the west side of the Grand Rapids, which is more of like a
- 4:57little bit more Blue Collar. When I interviewed with Brett
- 4:59angles, be the writer. I use the number of my aunts and
- 5:03uncles photos that And in that area to kind of show, it'll kind
- 5:07of blue color aspect. But then when I got to
- 5:10Pennsylvania, and I asked him, if there's all these suburbs and
- 5:13Pennsylvania, like, where's this family living?
- 5:16Because it was considered like a fictitious town.
- 5:19Where are they living? Like what city?
- 5:22You know, what? Like little suburb.
- 5:23Should I go to? And he said, Coatesville and
- 5:25Aston. So, I just now, very famously
- 5:28known. I went to a Wawa multiple
- 5:31Wawa's, and I sat in the parking lot for like a couple of hours.
- 5:34Hours. And then I went into the Wawa
- 5:36and I just like observed people and like what they were wearing
- 5:40and you know, they would come in and number of people they don't
- 5:43have handbags or describing in their pocket and like paying him
- 5:45there and you're ordering your sandwich from the from the
- 5:49hoagie counter. And how are they buying like
- 5:52sodas out of the refrigerator? They getting a fountain soda,
- 5:55like I just really observed as much of that as possible and
- 5:58then I went to like local restaurants and I went to like
- 6:00the local hardware store just to kind of see what people are
- 6:03wearing. So it really got Feel for the
- 6:05area. So our co-host on the Blonde
- 6:07cast is actually from Pennsylvania.
- 6:10And when I was researching for this interview, I called her and
- 6:12I said, what in the hell is a Wawa?
- 6:15And why is it costing the sign you're doing research there and
- 6:18she freaked out. She was like she was out of
- 6:21where I think this is such a fun story.
- 6:24It's kind of like a 7-Eleven. It's like you could.
- 6:27But it's amazing because you can get like a hoagie sandwich is
- 6:31salad, and they like make it right there in front of you.
- 6:34Almost like Like a Subway in a way.
- 6:36And then, it has gas station. But like, like, I spoke to
- 6:38someone yesterday and I like my brother-in-law lives and
- 6:41Philadelphia. And he goes to Allah every
- 6:43morning tea coffee. So it's kind of like us looks a
- 6:47sandwich shop in gas all in one. And it looks like it's really
- 6:51like a cultural phenomena of Philadelphia.
- 6:55It's like a 7-Eleven. So, when you were there, where
- 6:58you taking like a mental photos of people, just so you could
- 7:01present all this at some point building, like a database of
- 7:04people. Yes, I was mostly like ingrained
- 7:07in my mind. I didn't take a lot of
- 7:09photographs because I was like, I don't really want to like
- 7:13yeah, I was in my car a little bit and then I went like, went
- 7:16inside. But yeah, I was taking like a
- 7:18mental note of everything that was happening in the whole.
- 7:21Like every I was there in the August is my started.
- 7:26We Ivory films like pre covid and then post going back to work
- 7:30during covid. So it was just like, very now,
- 7:32I'd like don't even remember what I think I started.
- 7:34In an August, but yet everybody was in sweatpants.
- 7:38Like everyone was in sweatpants and then shower, slides like
- 7:42Adidas sugar. These are my people.
- 7:44I need to move here. Yeah, honestly, like, I really
- 7:49enjoyed Philadelphia. I had a great time there.
- 7:52Amazing. So we have to talk about
- 7:54costuming. Kate Winslet.
- 7:55When I was first thinking about this.
- 7:57What a challenge would be to transform.
- 7:59Kate Winslet in to marry, because Kate Winslet is so
- 8:02already recognizable. And you have the Maker must come
- 8:05off as a whole different person in a way.
- 8:08Can you just can't talk about the task of costuming Mayor?
- 8:12Yeah. I had spoken with Kate prior to
- 8:16her coming and I sent her some like mood boards and whatnot.
- 8:18And my first real question to her was like how far are you
- 8:21willing to go like with this character?
- 8:23Because Kate Winslet is absolutely stunning.
- 8:26Has the most like luminous skin and I was like, oh my gosh, how
- 8:30do we make her look a little bit more like lived in a way.
- 8:34Way, so Kate was great. She's like, oh, I'm all in the
- 8:38wig. Is going to have like two inch
- 8:40roots and her hair and makeup person.
- 8:43Ivana is like genius, and Kate has a very distinct eyebrow and
- 8:48they laid in additional little teeny hairs.
- 8:52So it looked like she didn't have that has high above our
- 8:55just she does, you know, because her eyebrows so dominant.
- 8:58But like when she didn't have the menu could like you could
- 9:00tell but yes, she was like totally all in and it was
- 9:04amazing. So Did two big fittings when she
- 9:06first got to Pennsylvania and pretty much after that second
- 9:10fitting were like, oh, we're moving in the right direction.
- 9:13And after like the I would say after the camera test in the
- 9:17first week of filming. It was like I totally have it.
- 9:20Like we know where we're going through the whole series.
- 9:22And one thing that was very important to me is that to make
- 9:25sure that just like most people you wear the same few pairs of
- 9:29jeans coat. You wear the same few handful of
- 9:34Shoes, it was very important to me that this is a woman who
- 9:39would maybe buy new clothes when she like felt it was necessary,
- 9:43but it's going to be like a jeans and a t-shirt situation.
- 9:45She's had the same jacket for a long time.
- 9:48She wears a Filson jacket for the first or five episodes.
- 9:52And so it was important that that was like her detective
- 9:55jacket that was like almost like her suit of armor, but the
- 9:58details of like a very adamantly did not want her to have a purse
- 10:02or handbag. I didn't want her to carry.
- 10:04A lot of stuff, her car was kind of like her person away her car
- 10:09and they could coat had Pockets because it's like, she was in
- 10:13and out of places so much and being a New Yorker, that you're
- 10:16on the subway. You go into a store, you go into
- 10:18your house. You're like constantly hot cold,
- 10:20hot cold. I wanted her to be able to take
- 10:22layers on, and off easily. So that's why the Filson jacket
- 10:26isn't super we filmed in the winter.
- 10:29So it wasn't like super really, really warm, but she wears
- 10:32another like fleece underneath it.
- 10:33And then it's just about like Layering so that was ideal and
- 10:37like, he too, like, developing this character.
- 10:39And that everything the entire color palette.
- 10:42I was like, oh my gosh, everyone is so drought like it's so
- 10:45drafty. I know reality.
- 10:48These are the colors that seeing unless it's like a teenager or a
- 10:54child and that there's pops of color except for like the sports
- 10:58paraphernalia, that you'll see. So it's very important to kind
- 11:00of keep that like a muted tone. I am obsessed with this.
- 11:04You Works on multiple films that have real superhero energy like
- 11:08Watchman The Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider-Man 2, so it's so
- 11:12funny when we're looking at Mary's town.
- 11:14It's almost like you created mare almost in her own kind of
- 11:18superhero outfit which is like this jacket and the layering and
- 11:22the fleece. It's like her own kind of like
- 11:24superhero uniform in a very contemporary way.
- 11:27It was meant to be like, kind of her protective layer and she
- 11:31always kind of had it with her. And at one point Kate was like,
- 11:33should we change the jack? Beckett and I was I was like,
- 11:35please no, like there's a whole point to her wearing this until
- 11:40she's shot and then we can change the jacket because now
- 11:43that jackets now that Phyllis and Rockets gone, so it was very
- 11:46intentional. Also, there's a little bit more
- 11:49life in the blue jacket. That's on the bottom left.
- 11:52You can't tell it's blue because it's soaking wet, but it is kind
- 11:56of a Periwinkle cornflower blue color, but all the clothes, had
- 12:00some aging done to it or like a really washed and looks and
- 12:03nothing looked like, Of the package right there.
- 12:06Was there a lot of aging and dying that went into this
- 12:08project? Yes.
- 12:09I had a full-time major and dire that he was just constantly like
- 12:13over dying and putting like low lights and for except it's hard
- 12:18to see but on her Filson jacket that's in the top right corner.
- 12:22There's like a leather patch right here on the shoulders and
- 12:25all in that shoulder that's like all age because it was actually
- 12:29a much brighter color when we first got the jacket as we
- 12:32needed. So many of them that Was that
- 12:35was aged a lot and a lot of her stuff was new and then aged she
- 12:39did have some thrifted stuff. But predominantly it was like
- 12:42newer because we needed to have like stunts and stuff like that.
- 12:45So for a few things but I mean Kate so game she can pretty much
- 12:49do anything and she was like running around and chasing
- 12:51everyone, you know, doing the chance.
- 12:54She's amazing. It was so amazing.
- 12:57So you talked about it a little bit.
- 12:59How collaborative were you with the actors or should I say how
- 13:02collaborative or two actors with you when it came?
- 13:04Acosta, me mayor of Easton K2 super collaborative.
- 13:07I mean really all the actors were very collaborative in the
- 13:10sense of working working with me to kind of get there.
- 13:14Kate's amazing. And it was like a discussion all
- 13:16the time and we were constantly, you know, once we got it, if we
- 13:21needed a new like they added a new script day or like, oh, we
- 13:24she had, like, I think it was like 47 to 52.
- 13:29I can't remember how many changes, but she had like so
- 13:31many changes Kate. Wow, once we got really the The
- 13:34base. It was just like on the day like
- 13:37hey, we have this, here's our layers that.
- 13:39We always, where do we want to change up a t-shirt or
- 13:41sweatshirt? Ooh.
- 13:42Whatnot. Because we had kind of a closet
- 13:44for Julian Nicholson. She's also so amazing.
- 13:48Like she was super collaborative and I had the first fitting and
- 13:53it is always a challenge to know how far some of the actors will
- 13:57go as far as like making them not shine their, you know, their
- 14:01best, look, their best hair, their best skin and really do.
- 14:04You know, transform because this whole thing was storytelling and
- 14:08telling the story of these characters in this specific
- 14:11area. Everyone was really great about
- 14:13like going for it. And so, Julian was amazing.
- 14:17And I had most of her clothes were thrifted like a number of
- 14:20them. The Dave Matthews t-shirt was
- 14:23scripted. And so I just basically was
- 14:26like, okay, when would this t-shirt be from?
- 14:30How old would she have been when she saw this concert, you know,
- 14:33and I went back to those. Years to get the shirt, but she
- 14:37was just like a lot of the sweaters and stuff and she's
- 14:39like, oh, this is great. Like it's really drab.
- 14:41I'd love more of this type of sweater.
- 14:44I had a few new things in there for her and she was like, I love
- 14:47how this like this water goes over.
- 14:49My hand is really been stretched out.
- 14:51And so all of those details, a stretched-out sweater a stain on
- 14:54the sweatshirt, maybe like a burn, and like Dylan's jacket,
- 14:58like all of those little things were put into it.
- 15:01I love that. It is totally like the little
- 15:03details that really made this. So come to life like you said,
- 15:05like even like a stretched-out sweater makes all the difference
- 15:08on some of these characters and I just want to ask you to.
- 15:12I was obsessed of all like the band T-shirts that concert
- 15:15t-shirts, all the graphic. Tees.
- 15:17I need this Spyro t-shirt that they're wearing a top, right?
- 15:23I thought that was so cool. Can you just talk about the
- 15:26graphic? Tees everyone.
- 15:29I meet this Earth so good. I can't remember about it from
- 15:33like hot. Topic or something like that.
- 15:35Like, really in Philadelphia. There's a lot of malls.
- 15:39And so for the teenagers I did a mix of like, thrifting and then
- 15:44mall mall buys, but for the teenagers that have Bob, like
- 15:49the band and stuff that have all the logos.
- 15:51So, it was very important to me that we show is much like local
- 15:57like Talent, local coffee, shop fire station, like anything
- 16:01local. It was really important to me
- 16:02because as I was like going around Everybody had on like a
- 16:05logo shirt, a logo sports team. Like it was everywhere.
- 16:10So I had a local Shopper and she what I've said to her like her
- 16:15first week. I was like, okay, here's what
- 16:17the story is here is all of like the mood boards inspiration.
- 16:21I need you to go to Every local place that you can think of and
- 16:26I want local bands. Local record store, or local
- 16:30coffee shop, fire station, like anything local please get And
- 16:34have them sign a release, and we'll put it in the show, and I
- 16:37think we have like 20 to 25, different, local places.
- 16:39And then, on top of all the Philly, flyers and gritty and
- 16:43like eat the Eagles and something, all the sports teams.
- 16:46So that was like, one thing I really wanted to have and she
- 16:49did an amazing job. And so, we got to Pepper that
- 16:52all in. That's wonderful.
- 16:53I love that, that that happened. So let's get into some specific
- 16:57characters. First.
- 16:59I want to talk about Siobhan. I loved her costumes, because
- 17:02she kind of felt like the fashionable.
- 17:04And then the show, see I love all of her costumes, all her
- 17:07outfits, felt very put together and it felt like they
- 17:10represented contemporary Trends in a way translated into this
- 17:14East Town environment. So, what was your idea behind
- 17:17Siobhan's looks? I wanted her to be almost like
- 17:21she's advancing from the family me.
- 17:24Like she didn't want to be like, I don't want to say like stuck
- 17:27with her family, but she like, as a teenager, you you a lot of
- 17:31times follow Trends or you follow the quraíanic.
- 17:34Crowd and I wanted her to be slightly different, but also
- 17:36someone who's like little bit more thinking a little bit, big
- 17:40city or otherworldly or like, not just small town.
- 17:44So I had the idea of just like, layering her up and just mixing
- 17:49prints and patterns and textures.
- 17:51I love texture. So it's a matter of like
- 17:54layering that and proceed looks, we started doing like a
- 17:57turtleneck with like layers and it just kind of work.
- 18:00That's where swarmed. And then my one of my costumers
- 18:04that Care of the actors on set. She was a ton of jewelry always
- 18:08layers, like necklaces and rings and everything, and I thought,
- 18:11oh, that could be like really great for Siobhan, just to show
- 18:15her personality who she is. So I took that and added like
- 18:20that's how I added a lot of layers.
- 18:22But when I'm Gary who placed upon came in, she had hair like
- 18:26a little bit longer than mine. Oh, well.
- 18:28Shaniqua. Who's the hair the lead hair?
- 18:31She was like, I'm going to give her this haircut and I'm like,
- 18:34if you can get an actress to shave the side of her head and
- 18:37do that haircut. I'm all about it.
- 18:39So we fit on gauri in the costumes, for her first fitting.
- 18:42And I was like, I mean, we need the help, we need a haircut
- 18:45because I'm Godfrey is like so sweet and so lovely.
- 18:48But she's like a girly girl and I was like Siobhan's not a girly
- 18:51girl. You're going to have to get over
- 18:52that and it's like, oh, I could be pretty and I was like, she's
- 18:55not pretty, she's like, she's going places and she's not
- 18:58thinking about pretty. She's like going into it with a
- 19:01different attitude as soon as Shaniqua cut her hair.
- 19:04She translated into this character.
- 19:06It was all everything that on her.
- 19:09We put back on her and instantly like all the costumes were
- 19:12approved because the hair really transformed look, so Chic and I
- 19:17worked really closely together on that and also, some of the
- 19:20other characters. So it's fantastic.
- 19:21Oh my gosh, I love that so much. And yeah, I'm so glad you
- 19:24mentioned a jewelry because every single time, I was like,
- 19:26oh my gosh, I love that necklace.
- 19:28Or I love the earrings. She's wearing if all came
- 19:31together so beautifully and the haircut.
- 19:33I'm so glad that it happened. I cannot imagine like the long
- 19:36care. Savannah in a rock band.
- 19:40I love that story. So then the next character I
- 19:43need to talk about is detectives able and he's a county detective
- 19:48known for a recently, solving a nearby Cold Case, and he's kind
- 19:51of brought in from the outside to help mayor.
- 19:54I feel like because he's brought in from outside.
- 19:57He's a little bit different, from everyone else, who's in the
- 19:59area. Can we maybe talk to szabo's
- 20:02outfits? Yeah, so And I had kind of a
- 20:05different thought of the look when he first came to
- 20:09Pennsylvania and we tried it on them and like, Evan and I really
- 20:12kind of liked it, but Jonah to brag.
- 20:15He thought, oh, that's like cool breads.
- 20:18Like the writer is like the sweetest guy.
- 20:20You'll ever meet. Like how he wrote that?
- 20:21No idea. He's so sweet and nice.
- 20:25But like, I don't know if it really looks like the guys from
- 20:28here and I thought, you know, that's a really good point.
- 20:31Maybe we're making Evan too much of a character instead of Owing
- 20:34who this guy is? So we went back and I like
- 20:37looked at a number of people and I thought you know what, he just
- 20:40needs to be in a very simple suit, that's just one step above
- 20:45what the other detectives other men would wear.
- 20:49Not too fancy, but still kind of looking good.
- 20:52So people are kind of like recognizing him, recognizing him
- 20:55as kind of like this Hotshot detective when in actuality.
- 20:59He had his own secret of hiding that he like didn't really solve
- 21:02the previous case. So he was actually Playing into
- 21:05the role that he was trying to perceive or put out there.
- 21:08I love by day or think about that until you said that just
- 21:11happened and I love the blue color palette you developed for
- 21:16him. Also.
- 21:17I've noticed a lot of Blues a lot of Gray's it's trying to
- 21:20keep it that it looked nice and flattering, but I feel like that
- 21:24standard active like in a small town is like a bad sports jacket
- 21:29and a white shirt and a pad thai and it's like well, he know he
- 21:32can still kind of try to look a little A bit nicer.
- 21:35So just kept it really, really simple and it just kind of
- 21:39worked for him. I love it.
- 21:41So now, finally, we have to talk about one of my favorite
- 21:44characters played by Jean Smart Helen, such a fun hilarious
- 21:49character. What I notice about her, which I
- 21:52thought was so interesting. I want to talk to you about it,
- 21:55but she's like, one of the characters who really wears a
- 21:57lot of color and a lot of prints compared to everyone else.
- 22:00I mean, it's not like she's wearing neon pink, but she's
- 22:02actually wearing some Oranges and yellows even her drinks or
- 22:07colorful, which I thought was fun.
- 22:09So can we just go into Helens looks but also to color palates
- 22:13used. Yes.
- 22:14So I worked with Gene on Watchman.
- 22:16And so she had like a much more serious look, so when I did
- 22:21Watchman, right before doing mayor, so, when we went to
- 22:23Mayor, I thought okay, how am I going to transform Gene and make
- 22:27her look different. And I kind of thought to those
- 22:31my grandmother and my grandmother has looked probably
- 22:34Oddly the same for the past like 30 years like she's had the same
- 22:38hairstyle, the same, not the same clothes for 30 years, but I
- 22:43always perceived her growing up as always being like kind of the
- 22:46same thing. But with jeans she wanted to be.
- 22:50She's like, I think I'll always have the she would always have
- 22:52the same hairstyle but let's bring in like she still has hope
- 22:56for the family. Like she's given up on the
- 22:58family. Like Mary's kind of given up a
- 23:00little bit and Siobhan is just thinking of like kind of We'll
- 23:04be paying homage to her family and being there for her family.
- 23:07But like, what's next in her life.
- 23:09So Gene is going to be our Helen is going to be the constant.
- 23:12They're always there to help but I also wanted I went to like TJ
- 23:17Maxx and I was like, she shops at t.j.
- 23:19Maxx or she shot that type of size and she's getting what she
- 23:23finds is like the nice shirt. All a lot of those shirts are
- 23:26either like Ray blue or black or their prints.
- 23:30So I was like, oh she's definitely going to print she
- 23:33wears. Like, pretty much exclusively.
- 23:36Where is like a nice sweat pant. And she work occurs.
- 23:40Like her. Indoor shoes are Skechers her
- 23:42outdoor. She's her Skechers.
- 23:44Jean came in and did the fitting we were like, oh, there's like
- 23:48some good things here. This is kind of working for the
- 23:50initial fitting and she was like, it's just missing
- 23:53something and I was like, I totally agree with you.
- 23:55I just can't put my finger on like what it is at the moment.
- 23:59And she said, what if she has a butt because Gene is like a Slim
- 24:05like glamazon, like she's a very slim figure, like beautiful
- 24:09woman and I thought, oh, we could make her pear-shaped.
- 24:13We could make Helen pear shape, and it just that little fill out
- 24:16in those sweatpants really made her a day.
- 24:19And then the hair made her a different character and into the
- 24:21character of Helen, so, it was really great.
- 24:24I just remembered you did an interview recently and you talk
- 24:27about creating hip pads for Helen.
- 24:29Yeah. So we so I gave her a little
- 24:33big, but And then put hips on the side.
- 24:37So she became pear-shaped. That's really I love this scene
- 24:41has like, the longest glamazon legs like very slim.
- 24:47Like, she's as, I mean, you see your own hacks.
- 24:49It's like a completely different character that on it though.
- 24:53Right? Right, so I can try, but I love
- 24:56that so much those so funny. Well, that is it for us.
- 25:01I love talking with you so much. I feel like going to be watching
- 25:04the show now. Thank you so much for joining
- 25:06me. Megan, and congratulations on
- 25:08all the success of the show. I'm so happy for you.
- 25:11Thank you very much and taking the time to speak with me, and
- 25:14thank you so much and congratulations.
- 25:17Oh, thank you. Thank you.
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