Latest / The Art of Costume Podcast / Dune: Prophecy with Costume Designer, Bojana Nikitović
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- 0:06Hello and welcome to the Art of Costume podcast.
- 0:08I am your host Spencer Williams and thank you so much for
- 0:12joining me for another bonus episode.
- 0:15Hey costumer, it's so good to see you all.
- 0:17I'm excited to be here today to talk about another 1 of this
- 0:20year's exciting Emmy nominees in costume design.
- 0:24And of course, we're here today to talk about Dune Prophecy, a
- 0:28show that you should all have rightfully assumed that I, of
- 0:31course, am in love with because I love everything Dune.
- 0:35So I was so excited to talk to costume designer Boyana
- 0:38Nokiavich about the costumes. You know, Boyana from a lot of
- 0:43incredible work such as Ghost Rider, Spirit of Vengeance, The
- 0:46Forest Underworld, Blood Wars, Voyagers, The November Man, and
- 0:51she even worked as an assistant costume designer on The Life
- 0:54Aquatic with Steve Zizu and Marie Antoinette.
- 0:58I mean, these are some incredible films.
- 1:00And of course, Boyana is a 2025 Emmy nominee in Outstanding
- 1:05Fantasy sci-fi Costumes for her work on Dune Prophecy.
- 1:08And of course, earlier this year, Boyana also won the CDG
- 1:12Award for Excellence in sci-fi Fantasy Television.
- 1:16I'm such a big fan of Boyana. After this interview, we
- 1:19actually got to hang out a little bit more.
- 1:21I ended up interviewing her at the Incredible Sketch, the
- 1:24Screen panel with HBO Max, and the HBO originals, which was so
- 1:29much fun. And I know you're all gonna love
- 1:31her. So please join us after this
- 1:34break as I talk to costume designer Boyana Nokiavich about
- 1:38the costumes of Dune Prophecy. I am so happy to welcome Dune
- 1:48Prophecy costume designer Boyana Nikitovich.
- 1:52Hello, how are you? It's so good to see you.
- 1:54Oh good, good to see you too. I'm good.
- 1:57Just arrived 2 days ago to LA and ready to leave tomorrow but
- 2:01good. Oh, you're leaving us so soon?
- 2:03Well, you did get a little bit of LA sunshine for a little bit.
- 2:06But exactly. You're on the road again.
- 2:09Well, it's so good to meet you finally in person.
- 2:12I was so thrilled to be at the Costume Designer Guild Awards
- 2:15this year, and we were so thrilled to see you walk away
- 2:19with the award for Excellence in sci-fi Fantasy Television.
- 2:22I just want to know what was going through your mind when
- 2:25you're on that stage in front of all of your peers with that
- 2:27award. I mean, it was one of the most
- 2:30exciting moments of my I, I really didn't expect it and I
- 2:34didn't even prepare anything. I didn't put, I asked my son who
- 2:40he speaks English much better than me because he lived in the
- 2:42states, he graduated, he went to high school in States and
- 2:45everything. And I was like, let's prepare.
- 2:46When I, when I was nominated, I said, let's prepare something.
- 2:50And he said he said, no, Why would you prepare?
- 2:52You just say, if you, if it happens, you just say thank you
- 2:56to the crew and etcetera, etcetera.
- 2:58And then, you know, I find myself on that stage and I'm so
- 3:01overwhelmed with the emotions and everything and I'm not
- 3:04prepared. But I mean, it was really good.
- 3:09I I'm so glad not for only only for myself, but for the whole
- 3:12crew, because I know how much they, all of them worked hard
- 3:19and we are really a team. And then the, and one nice.
- 3:25There is a nice thing that I noticed.
- 3:27Each person, each costume designer or designer who got the
- 3:33award that night said thank you. So to the team, that means that
- 3:38we all really appreciate the work of our collaborators and
- 3:44whoever is the part of a of a costume team, it is a teamwork,
- 3:48always. Right.
- 3:50I mean, a lot of people just think that there's just one
- 3:52person at the top who's designing all, you know, 2000 of
- 3:55these costumes. When you're designing in
- 3:58multiple worlds in a series such as Doom Prophecy, I mean, it, it
- 4:01takes a literal army to design an army.
- 4:04So you of all people know that better, right?
- 4:07Than anyone. Yeah.
- 4:08You kind of like a small, not even small, but like a factory
- 4:12that was producing nonstop hundreds of costumes.
- 4:18I must say myself, I'm very control freak.
- 4:21I like to be involved in everything, maybe even too much.
- 4:26I'm very difficult in letting things go.
- 4:28Anything but I, I, when I'm sure that something is good, then I
- 4:32then I let it go. So, yeah, I really, I'm glad
- 4:36that now after the last five years, six years, I have a team
- 4:42of like 20-30 people that I almost always, when we have a
- 4:46big project, we always working together.
- 4:49And I really trust them. You know, there are textile
- 4:52artists, there are metal artists, leather, leather
- 4:56masters and, and of course, my, my closest collaborate, my
- 5:01assistants. And those are the, those are
- 5:04people that I really, really trust.
- 5:06And it's so good when you can rely on someone else's talent as
- 5:12well. You know you when you give the
- 5:13idea, but then you know that there will be someone who will
- 5:18make it, you know, real, and who will add something else,
- 5:23something good, something new to make it even better.
- 5:26Yeah, yeah. Well, it, it definitely comes
- 5:28through in your work and it's it's just so incredible.
- 5:31So I think we should just jump into it.
- 5:33I'm, I'll just admit, I'm a big Dune fan.
- 5:35I love Dune, I love the books, I love the movies, I love the
- 5:39show, I love the characters, lore.
- 5:41I mean, I could go on and on about it.
- 5:42So I'm very excited to talk to you.
- 5:44Doom Prophecy is a a series that takes place 10,000 years before
- 5:49the Paul Trady story that a lot of people are probably familiar
- 5:51with going into with this series.
- 5:55So it's but still very much set in the future.
- 5:58So it's almost like you're doing a futuristic period piece, which
- 6:02is kind of a hard thing to wrap your mind around.
- 6:06I can't think of many other, you know, productions that have kind
- 6:09of done that. So how did you wrap your mind
- 6:11around that aspect? What sort of research are you
- 6:14doing to make this Dune universe feel a little bit more period,
- 6:18but still something far in the future from what we know?
- 6:22It's a far future for us, but it's still period for what we
- 6:26said we saw in the movies and the movies made such a success,
- 6:32you know, and visually they were they are fantastic.
- 6:35So it was, it was quite tricky and difficult to create our our
- 6:41own world, but it was I think there I relied a lot.
- 6:47First of all, reading books, getting into the world.
- 6:51I read I read some of the books when I was young and but I
- 6:55needed to read the especially I wrote The sister could mend
- 6:59thoughts and navigators again because they are related to our
- 7:04our story and it was a great help.
- 7:09I mean from Allison Shabke, who in Jordan, they really helped a
- 7:13lot. A lot of zoom meetings, a lot of
- 7:15drawings. If I only a few months ago, I
- 7:19was cleaning like my photos and things and they were when I saw
- 7:23all the drawings for different if if you would only see what we
- 7:27started from and where we got, you know, it takes time and it
- 7:31takes a lot of work and a lot of new ideas to get to the point
- 7:36that we say, ah, OK, this, this, this thing we like, let's go
- 7:40for. Yeah, yeah.
- 7:42I mean, it's a lot to wrap your mind around.
- 7:44But then so let's talk about the Sisterhood, which will later
- 7:47become the Benin Jezaret. It's an order of deep lasting
- 7:51universe, deep lasting influence in the Dune universe.
- 7:55So I'm curious what sort of influences a research guided
- 7:59your vision for this, this ancient yet forward-looking
- 8:02group? Like, what were you looking at
- 8:04to like, really prepare yourself and design A costume
- 8:08specifically for, you know, the veiled, you know, sisters that
- 8:12we we know. Yeah, if I would go through the
- 8:15references that I pull out, it would be everything from
- 8:20medieval paintings to fashion shows to all the different kind
- 8:26of headpieces that were that could be the inspiration for for
- 8:32their look. But first of all, we were like,
- 8:35I must say first I was thinking about the sisterhood and the
- 8:39uniform, let's say for the for the sisterhood making acolyte
- 8:43novices acolyte Reverend mothers and then through theirs look.
- 8:47And it was then you not only that you have to make a look
- 8:53that will and a silhouette that will remain very recognizable
- 8:59for the for the audio audience. But at the same time, you have
- 9:03to make something that the the shape, the silhouette that will
- 9:06look good on a different bodies types.
- 9:09You have to choose the fabric that will look good on a camera,
- 9:14that will move, move good in front of the camera and also the
- 9:18fabric that will be good for the kind of embossing that we were
- 9:22planning to make and that we that, that we made.
- 9:25So all these things. And then to get the quantity,
- 9:27quantity that was the big issue. Because, you know, you think,
- 9:32OK, now we have the now, now we know what it is.
- 9:36We have the shape we have, but now you have to get like
- 9:39thousands of meters of the same fabric.
- 9:42So it was, it was a real issue. You know, I mean, to that we
- 9:47have one factory working nonstop for us.
- 9:50And I know that there was a like a summer break at the certain
- 9:53time for them and we were like, we have to get this last 100
- 9:59meters, you know? So yeah, it's, it's really, it's
- 10:04really tricky. And then for the, for the true
- 10:06Sayers Look, I, I the collaboration with Anna Foster,
- 10:11our director was really important because she wanted
- 10:14that whale that will have some kind of pattern, but still the
- 10:20camera would be able to see through and see the eyes of the,
- 10:24of the, of the actresses. And then we, we've got got that
- 10:29idea to make this laser cut and to apply this laser cut on the
- 10:34other on the silk or ganza. And we got that.
- 10:38But it's not it's like it's a process to to get to that point
- 10:43and to get to make this, that design that will be our design
- 10:48for, for, for, for that pattern. So it was it was all step by
- 10:54step. But when we we got to that, we,
- 10:56we really liked it. And then we created the, the,
- 10:59the long hats, high hats and continued with all kind of
- 11:08pleathing that we made by hands. And it was a long process,
- 11:12really. Yeah.
- 11:14So then like you mentioned that we have the acolytes and the
- 11:17truth, truth Sayers, but then you have Mother Superior Valia
- 11:22and Reverend Mother Tula Harkinen, who they're a little
- 11:26bit more put together, I'd say, compared to everyone else.
- 11:29So how are you able to make their looks feel a little bit
- 11:32more distinctive, but still vary within the same realm of the
- 11:36rest of the sisterhood? I mean, it's a lot of the same
- 11:38colors, but you could just tell that there's a little bit a
- 11:41little bit more of a Polish to Mother Superior, so to say,
- 11:44because she's Mother Superior. So how did you make that happen?
- 11:48Yeah, especially for for for Walia, it was so important that
- 11:52she, when she comes to Salusa Secundus and when when we see
- 11:56her entering for the first time, she has to make that, you know,
- 11:59we have to say who is that? You know, look at this.
- 12:03So her Cape is one of my favorite pieces because it has
- 12:11this printing, it has this fabric that I really like the
- 12:18way that it moves and the whale and the headpiece that we put to
- 12:23make the the whole look and the the big hood.
- 12:26So I think that that helped a lot.
- 12:30Also, her costume is a little bit more reliable, especially
- 12:33that costume when she travels. We wanted to to show that, you
- 12:37know, now she is on a, on a mission, you know, and now
- 12:40she's, it's not like a northern another ordinary day in the
- 12:44sisterhood. Now she's travelling to
- 12:46accomplish something. So it again, it was a great help
- 12:53from directors from, from Alison and Jordan to always help us and
- 12:59push us to, to go even further. And I remember first time we saw
- 13:05it was without the Cape or the Cape was small or something.
- 13:08And I, and I talked to it, I said, I don't think this will
- 13:11work. This is, this is the right
- 13:13thing. And then we do it.
- 13:15And it was really worth it because we just need, we need,
- 13:20you know, when you're working a big job doing, working on a big
- 13:24job like this, you know, you don't have enough time ever.
- 13:27You know, you always missing another day or two.
- 13:30And this kind of costumes are something that you cannot make
- 13:33in a day. They need, it's a process and
- 13:36all this hand printing and hand thinking that you need time to
- 13:41dry time to, you know, it all takes time.
- 13:45So sometimes you are just anxious to get things ready.
- 13:48But it's finally we we managed to do that, right.
- 13:53And with the Olivia with too Late, she has almost the same
- 13:58absolutely same costume like the others.
- 13:59But I think the way she's wearing things and the way she's
- 14:03really amazing. Yeah, right.
- 14:06It is a really is about the way you wear it.
- 14:08And you know, same for Mother Superior.
- 14:10She walks into a room with the costume and you just know, like,
- 14:13oh, she's the one that's in charge.
- 14:15That's that's the commanding presence of the sisterhood.
- 14:18I remember, sorry to interrupt you.
- 14:20I remember when Valley, when she she when she put the costume for
- 14:26the first time and she was like, I know how to the way she's
- 14:29going to walk and everything. It was like amazing.
- 14:32Yeah, I'm. Sure, I need one of those.
- 14:36So one thing once random kind of picked up from, you know,
- 14:39talking with you, but also just watching the show is I feel like
- 14:42textiles played a big role in your work on this show.
- 14:46It's almost like the fabrics kind of told their own story.
- 14:48Textures, lots of textures. Would you would you say that's a
- 14:52fair assessment that textiles really played a big role in Dune
- 14:55prophecy and I'm so. Happy that, that everybody's
- 14:58saying that because that was my main thing.
- 15:00I mean, we have to get the textures because you can't
- 15:06choose on a project like this. You can't choose textiles that
- 15:12already have some kind of texture that are recognizable
- 15:14for the audience. You know, at least I, that's my
- 15:17feeling because immediately it ruins the, the, the, the image
- 15:22that I was. So we were, we were literally
- 15:24working on making our textiles with the textures.
- 15:28And when we started, I was, I was making drawings with
- 15:34Illustrator and I really didn't know how we are going to get
- 15:37there and how we are going to make this.
- 15:39For example, on Emperor Carino, we have that was textures on, on
- 15:44his coat. And I really didn't know how we
- 15:46are going to make it. But I knew what I what I would
- 15:49like to, to get. And then when I talked with my
- 15:53assistant, who is really brilliant in every, in every, he
- 15:57knows many, how to make many things.
- 15:58And then the leather master and they showed me for them, it was
- 16:03a new thing also. But then they say, Oh, I, I, we
- 16:06think that we can do it this way and this way.
- 16:08And then we cut the leather. Then we press the fabric on the
- 16:12top of the leather and leave. And when it came out, I was
- 16:15like, that's it. I really that's of course it
- 16:19took us weeks because you are gluing something on a very
- 16:25delicate fabrics. There's a whole silk.
- 16:27So glue usually comes out. But so, you know, there were
- 16:31many, many mistakes before we we got the the right result.
- 16:37Yeah. I mean, and I think especially
- 16:39too, like with the Sisterhood where they're very much wearing
- 16:41dark colors too. I mean, I'm someone who wears
- 16:44only black, all black. I can just see on camera, I'm
- 16:47just looking like a black BLOB. So I feel like especially with
- 16:50the Sisterhood, it's a very dark environment too with the black
- 16:53fabric. So that's when texture and
- 16:55textiles is really going to play a big role to help them stand
- 16:58out in their environment too, yeah.
- 17:01That was so important, I mean and also this embossing that we
- 17:05put here because most of the time camera is on this.
- 17:08So it was important to get some movement to have some movement
- 17:13here. So this is this was another
- 17:16thing that we were searching and searching and how we are go we
- 17:18want to do it. And there we did this printings.
- 17:21But then by chance, we just I I saw the back of the printing.
- 17:26I said the back looks better than the than the front side.
- 17:29So we actually use the back of that printing for all the things
- 17:35that we have on a sisterhood and it's all you know, I like that.
- 17:40The fact that we did it every in our workshop, all done by hand
- 17:46from our textile artist or there.
- 17:49So it it it's, I think it's shows at the end, yeah.
- 17:53Well, let's switch gears a little bit to the political
- 17:55sphere. You were just mentioning Emperor
- 17:58Carino, played by the great Mark Strong.
- 18:01He governs an imperium in his house and bodies both ceremonial
- 18:05regality I would say, but also still has a distinctly military
- 18:09presence at the same time too. So was your approach to
- 18:12designing for him, but just also the Carino lineage around him,
- 18:17that legacy, Yeah. I think that was important also
- 18:20to show where we are, you know, to show that it's a system that
- 18:27the emperor represents the whole thing, that the whole
- 18:32environment there and that you can see.
- 18:34I think it's also in the production design, the way that
- 18:39has been made, you know, the the grand hole and the rest of the
- 18:45palace, It's shows that there is a hand behind, you know, strong
- 18:50hand behind. Even though Emperor maybe is not
- 18:54the strong hand himself, but he is coming from, you know, from
- 18:58the family from that, and it's in his look.
- 19:02It was important to show that as well.
- 19:05At least he wants to show as if he's really strong and knows
- 19:10what he's doing and he's the emperor of the of the of the, of
- 19:14the universe. But I mean on also his imperial
- 19:20guards around him, everything around him, you know, it has
- 19:23that military look. Even his wife is, you know,
- 19:27strong and very, you know, in her look.
- 19:33I think we wanted to show that that similar that they are, they
- 19:37are they, they are that look similar that has the same
- 19:42mission. And she's another strong woman
- 19:45next to him. Sometimes I think she was making
- 19:47decisions in his name, but that's between so.
- 19:52That's a whole different podcast, yeah.
- 19:54Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, one costume.
- 19:57I knew I was going to meet you at some point after I watched
- 20:00that first episode. When we saw that engagement
- 20:03dress worn by Princess You News, I was like, oh, I got talked to
- 20:06her as she meets her young husband in this arranged
- 20:09meeting. That stunning red gown.
- 20:13I mean, just how was that constructed?
- 20:14It is gorgeous. Beautiful.
- 20:17You know, I just, I need prints of it, illustrations, all the
- 20:20things. Oh, it's gorgeous.
- 20:21Oh yeah. I was thinking today, knowing
- 20:25that we will talk, I said probably we will talk about the
- 20:27dress. I mean, they were like, I think
- 20:30hundreds of drawings for that dress and many, many versions
- 20:36and, and we couldn't find the fabric, you know, that it was so
- 20:41important. And I'm, I'm kind of this, I
- 20:44think that fabric is 70% of a good when you, you have to have
- 20:49a good design and a good drawing and idea.
- 20:52But when you make a mistake with the fabric, it's so difficult to
- 20:56make it look good. So it was so important to get
- 20:59the right fabric and to to make it real when we finally had the
- 21:04design that we were all very happy with and and we were going
- 21:08on and going and I knew that that we wanted that some kind of
- 21:12laser cut applied on the other fabric, et cetera, et cetera.
- 21:16But I wasn't happy and then happy.
- 21:19And I mean, we had the silhouette, we have everything,
- 21:22we had the petticoat made and everything, but not the and then
- 21:25finally we got that one layer applying laser cut applied on
- 21:30the other layer of a silk. And finally where we got that
- 21:35and we were playing with the shadows and applying that silk
- 21:38in a different direction. So it will move differently in
- 21:42the camera so that you will see that pattern.
- 21:47It's difficult to explain, but when we will, you will see, you
- 21:50would see in, in real. It's that's how we got that,
- 21:55that texture on that fabric. And and then we were supposed to
- 22:00do the upper part, which again, I mean, I wanted to to make that
- 22:06net or that like a like a spider or like a prison there.
- 22:09She's in that. So we started adding this this
- 22:14pieces. It was all very delicate.
- 22:16It was thank God. I had an assistant that had
- 22:19almost identical measurements like the actress.
- 22:22So we could, you know, we were sewing the pieces directly on
- 22:26her and yeah, then it was veil, you know, and then the whale
- 22:33which colour the originally it was a a skin colour whale with
- 22:38the red pieces. But then we thought understood
- 22:40that this skins colour, even though it was a very thin silk
- 22:44tool, it was covering our dress wasn't red anymore.
- 22:47So we OK, it has to be a red whale with the red so little by
- 22:53little. And then we had that headpiece,
- 22:56which took like a time to to make it.
- 22:59Yeah, to look good and to be very easy to take it.
- 23:03She was supposed to take it out in the scene and to throw it,
- 23:06you know, and take it and so and also to be comfortable for the
- 23:11actress to wear it. So yeah.
- 23:13But on the end, we were all happy with the result.
- 23:18And I'm that the audience like that?
- 23:20Yeah, I mean. There's just like a lot of
- 23:22subtle storytelling, too. I mean, she's being put through
- 23:24this arranged marriage, but she's also hoping to be part of
- 23:29sisterhood. There's just like a lot of
- 23:31expectations kind of being forced on her.
- 23:33So in ways, it's almost like she feels a little bit like she's
- 23:36trapped a little bit. I mean, would you feel like
- 23:38that's kind of like what the story you're telling with the
- 23:40costume? Good.
- 23:41Good. I'm glad that you have noticed
- 23:44that you feel like that because that was the idea for me.
- 23:47It's not always about the beauty of the costume.
- 23:50I really like when costume works for the for the part and for the
- 23:55scene and that's the main thing. So if we manage to do that, then
- 24:01it's mission. Accomplished I mean, because
- 24:06it's true. I mean like sure, of course it's
- 24:07gorgeous, but you have to also think about the characters
- 24:10feelings they're underneath all of that dress.
- 24:12So sure, it might look great too, but you know, it's a really
- 24:15hard, difficult day. And you know, spoiler alert,
- 24:18Taiwan is listing but also doesn't go very well either, you
- 24:22know? Yeah, that's and also I must say
- 24:24it's photographed so well, you know, when she comes and that's
- 24:28shot from the back and everything.
- 24:30It it really helped. And she was, I mean she was so
- 24:35she was wearing like AI think 20 centimeters heels, you know,
- 24:39with with a big palm. And she managed to stay in it
- 24:43like for, I don't know, four days how long we were shooting.
- 24:47And we were like very grateful for that.
- 24:49But it was important, especially to.
- 24:53Comparing. To the boy you know to to make
- 24:56to make that. Well, we just got two more
- 24:59questions for you. We're almost near the end.
- 25:02Desmond Hart enters the story as a bit of a rogue.
- 25:05A character feels like a rebellious outsider, but he also
- 25:07has kind of like a rock star feeling to him too.
- 25:11He's he's a bad guy, but like in a cool way too, you know?
- 25:17So how did you approach his costume and make him feel
- 25:19completely like an outworlder compared to everyone here at In
- 25:24the Court of the Carino's OK. That was what you are saying is
- 25:28exactly what I would like to hear because if he wanted him to
- 25:31be totally now from someone who has doesn't have anything to do
- 25:36with anyone. You know, you just see who is
- 25:38this guy now and again the way that they shot that scene from
- 25:43when he's coming with the coat open and it's flying on the
- 25:47winners and who is this guy now and again to make this coat.
- 25:52We have several versions and several fabrics that we tried
- 25:57and then finally we found this fabric that I really like, but
- 26:01it takes time because it's a fabric that it's waxed and then
- 26:04you have to take wax out of it to make it move well.
- 26:08So it took time for our when you breakdown artist to to do that.
- 26:13But then when you do this, that fabric really looks age age as
- 26:17well. When you can, you can distress
- 26:20it well when it's and and make the good impression.
- 26:23So that was the and also we wanted it to look good open, but
- 26:29also when he closed it up there to good to give the good
- 26:33silhouette. And and when we finally was
- 26:38happy with that, we made our Insignia for his because he was
- 26:43a part of the all the guards of the army.
- 26:46And so we then we like the silhouette so much to all of us.
- 26:50So we decided when he becomes Bashar to make that black
- 26:54version of it that looked even better on tracks.
- 26:58So, so, so it's, I, I think it's always about what I'm thinking
- 27:07it, those are the characters that you have to remember as a
- 27:11silhouette that, oh, when you think of a, of Desmond, you
- 27:15think about that silhouette, about that long coat and
- 27:18somehow, you know, it's, it's recognizable.
- 27:22And I think what we were talking about before, it's so important
- 27:28that costume works for the character.
- 27:30Not only that, it looks good, right?
- 27:33Yeah, it's like you, you want to not like this guy, but he looks
- 27:37good at the same time, too. So you just can't help but like,
- 27:39just really being fascinated with his story the whole time.
- 27:43And one of my favorite parts of the series.
- 27:45I'm really fascinated by the breakdown of costumes and making
- 27:48things look aged and died. And we have these great
- 27:52flashbacks to seeing the Harkinen family when, you know,
- 27:55Valia's younger and you really see these Harkins are really
- 27:59down on their luck and just kind of getting by.
- 28:01How did you make them feel different?
- 28:03Different, like they were the Harkins that we know, but also
- 28:06still feeling really down on their luck?
- 28:08Yeah. It was that was the hardest part
- 28:10because we have from one episode to another to create completely
- 28:14different worlds. And Harkins were one of my
- 28:19favorites because it's was we could do something completely,
- 28:24completely different from the rest of the of the series.
- 28:28But The thing is that in this, for this job, we almost didn't
- 28:32rent any costumes. All the costumes were made.
- 28:35So it was like, I mean, and to make, when you make them, you
- 28:39make them new, even though it then, then you need time.
- 28:43So I'm glad that you said that you like the, the, the, the
- 28:46breakdown because I, I've been working with the same team for I
- 28:50think more than 10 years and I really trust them and the way
- 28:54they treat costume. First there's, there's, there's
- 28:58not one piece of fabric that we used without first dyeing or
- 29:02doing something, you know, with it.
- 29:04And then we start aging it. So the the way they worked on
- 29:09making this whale for or whatever, you know, creating
- 29:14this new textures again, it was amazing.
- 29:18And the quantity of costume that they were supposed to, to make
- 29:22breakdown on, it was like we were just fitting the extras and
- 29:26giving you, if you would see those were new costumes, you
- 29:30know, completely new costumes. Then they and then when they,
- 29:34when it comes from their room, it's another, it's totally
- 29:38another world, another story. It's amazing what they can.
- 29:43Yeah. I can't even imagine.
- 29:45Costumes Designer Boyana Nikki Tovik.
- 29:48This has been such a pleasure. I'm so glad I got to chat with
- 29:51you. I love Doom Prophecy and I just
- 29:54can't wait to follow along with you and see what you're doing
- 29:57next. And I really hope you'll join us
- 29:58and I hope everyone listening well, if you haven't seen Doom
- 30:01Prophecy yet, go back and check it out.
- 30:03It's such a great show, so dark and alluring.
- 30:06And I'm actually on my third rewatch right now, so I'm going
- 30:09to be watching it again with a whole new lens after talking to
- 30:12you. Thank you so much for joining
- 30:14us. This has been such a pleasure.
- 30:16Thank you. So much, it was a real pleasure.
- 30:17Thank you.