Latest / The Art of Costume Podcast / The Righteous Gemstones S4 with Costume Designer, Christina Flannery
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- 0:06Hello, welcome to the Art of Costume podcast.
- 0:07I'm Elizabeth Joy Glass. And I'm Spencer Williams.
- 0:10Happy Sunday. Elizabeth.
- 0:12Happy. Sunday.
- 0:13The holy day, as one would say. Yes, yes, it is the day of rest.
- 0:18Yeah, the day we almost just lay on our couches.
- 0:21Sit on our couches and watch our favorite holy show, The
- 0:25Righteous Gemstones, the most holy show out on the television
- 0:30waves. Absolutely.
- 0:31What could be holier than HBO Max?
- 0:35The righteous. Gemstones.
- 0:37Obviously. Let's get into it.
- 0:39I love this show so much, it's hilarious.
- 0:42I feel like I heard so much about it leading up to season 3
- 0:47when I interviewed our guest for the first time.
- 0:50I had the binge the first couple seasons in like a couple days
- 0:54and I deeply fell in love with the show.
- 0:57Suddenly was all I was talking about, and now here we are.
- 1:01Of course, anytime I start something, it's right before it
- 1:04ends. Yeah, because now the show has
- 1:06ended. We have seen.
- 1:08Well, I've seen the series finale.
- 1:10Yeah, I gave Elizabeth the Cliff Notes.
- 1:13He did. He did I I'm still working
- 1:16through it. There's a lot to watch right
- 1:18now. I'm still working through.
- 1:20It let's get into the Righteous Gemstones today, of course we
- 1:24are talking about the fourth and final season, but we're also
- 1:28still giving props to just the entire season yeah as a whole as
- 1:33we say goodbye one final time but.
- 1:35The series each season and each designer has just been.
- 1:39Oh, top notch. Spot on.
- 1:41A huge shout out to costume designer Sarah Trost, who did
- 1:44the first and second episode. She's become a good friend of
- 1:48mine. And I really think between these
- 1:50two costume designers, everyone who's worked on the show, it's
- 1:52been seamless from beginning to end.
- 1:54Yeah, there's never been a moment where I was like, Oh,
- 1:56well that really felt off in the second season or the 4th season.
- 2:00Like it's been phenomenal every season.
- 2:03The music, the cast, the cameos, the costumes, the production
- 2:07design. Perfect.
- 2:08Yeah, right. Perfect.
- 2:10So with that, let's kick into a summary.
- 2:14In the 4th and final season, the Gemstone children continue to
- 2:17lead the Church amidst their turbulent personal lives.
- 2:21Jesse struggles to leave a lasting legacy and keep control
- 2:25of his rebelling sons, while Judy must care for a depressed
- 2:28BJ after he is injured in a pole dancing accident.
- 2:32Having entered into a romantic relationship with Keith, Kelvin
- 2:36gains prominence after creating PRISM and LGBT friendly
- 2:40ministry. Also running for Christ's top
- 2:43Following Man, which is yeah, which is a good storyline.
- 2:48However, things spiral completely out of control for
- 2:51the Gemstone offspring when a lonely Eli enters into a
- 2:55relationship with Lori Millsap, a close friend of Amy Lee.
- 2:58Gemstone. And that is Season 4 of The
- 3:02Righteous Gemstones. This is one of those shows where
- 3:04I don't know how they come to the table and write some of
- 3:07these storylines. No, Danny McBride is like, so
- 3:12brilliant. But I don't know how one could
- 3:15sit down and write BJ having a, you know, service animal monkey
- 3:21named Doctor Watson accident that.
- 3:23Was so amazing Who? Comes up with this stuff.
- 3:27I feel like it's that poor. I feel so bad for BJ in this
- 3:30series and it's like the season start time, I was like, he has
- 3:33something for himself. He's committed like he's really
- 3:36and then just it falls apart immediately.
- 3:39BJ is a sleeper character honestly I love him ever since
- 3:42he had his breakup scene with Judy at the Outback Steakhouse
- 3:45and like season one or two something.
- 3:48Like that? Yeah.
- 3:48That's something I would do anyways.
- 3:51Let's go behind the costumes. As we said, we have creator
- 3:55Danny McBride who also plays Jesse excellent and we have
- 4:02costume designer Christina Flannery who has done seasons
- 4:08three and four of the Righteous Gemstones.
- 4:11You will know her work from Cam them that follow and she has
- 4:17some upcoming work on Christy Martin biopic with Sydney
- 4:23Sweeney it. Looks cool by the way.
- 4:25It does look cool and she has gotten Emmy nominations for
- 4:32Righteous Gemstones season 3 and I'm going to guess season 4.
- 4:36I hope so. I hope so.
- 4:37I love, I love Christina Flanery and I love her costumes.
- 4:41I mean, they kind of make the show they always have on the
- 4:44Righteous Gemstones. Oh yeah.
- 4:46And I'm glad that finally the TV can be starting to recognize
- 4:50just how over the top their costumes are at like, all times
- 4:54of the day, every episode. They're in.
- 4:57They're like so insane, but they fit so well into that world.
- 5:01Old. Yeah, it's wild.
- 5:03It is wild. That's so good.
- 5:05Well, I am excited to say that just like in our third season,
- 5:11the third season of the Righteous Gemstones, Christina
- 5:13Flannery is back to talk to us about the Righteous Gemstones.
- 5:17So after this little break, I'm gonna sit down with Christina
- 5:20and we're going to talk about, I mean, each of the gemstones, of
- 5:24course, Uncle Baby Billy, who's working on his, well, definitely
- 5:28probably my favorite character, who's working on teen just,
- 5:31yeah, about a teen Jesus. Teen Jesus Show.
- 5:36We talk about Kelvins, Step into the top, Christ Following Man
- 5:41and Prism and gosh, I mean we talked about quite a bit.
- 5:45So I'm excited for you all to hear that.
- 5:46I can't wait to listen. Yeah, so let's take a break and
- 5:50bring in Christina Flannery. Hi, I'm Dan who does all the
- 5:58magic behind the scenes. I wanted to say thank you.
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- 6:31I am beyond excited to welcome back to the podcast one of my
- 6:35good friends, someone who I just so deeply admire, costume
- 6:38designer Christina Flannery. Hey, Christina.
- 6:41Hi. It's so good to see you again.
- 6:43I've, I mean, when we talked about the Righteous Gemstones,
- 6:46what, like 1000 years ago, I just deeply fell in love this
- 6:50show and I've just been looking forward to this moment once
- 6:53again. So I'm so glad to have you back.
- 6:55The show's on fire right now. It feels like it.
- 6:59It really does. So, you know, since the last
- 7:04time we talked, as I was just saying, I really feel like the
- 7:07show's kind of really blown up. And you know, part of that is,
- 7:10of course, the costumes, but this incredible cast, it's so
- 7:13funny. Plus, you were honored with a
- 7:16Emmy nomination as well for the Righteous Gemstones, which I was
- 7:20so excited for you. I mean, what has this journey
- 7:22felt like leading up to Season 4 before we get into the costumes?
- 7:26Yeah, yeah. I mean, honestly, I will say it
- 7:29was really a shock to me to even get nominated.
- 7:32It was like, I was just my, my ACD was like, we're going to get
- 7:38nominated. We're going to get, I was just
- 7:39like, we're not going to get nominated.
- 7:41It's not happening. And then when it happened, it
- 7:44was just like ludicrous. We were losing our minds.
- 7:47We're obviously on the show when it happened.
- 7:50So we're just running through the halls of like Sears, which
- 7:53is where, you know, where the gemstones like studio is at.
- 7:57So, yeah, it was amazing. Also, while we got the Emmy
- 8:03nominations, I believe that we were shooting the telethon, so
- 8:08we were also just doing really insane stuff at the time.
- 8:12So it was really cool to have that excitement while also
- 8:16seeing like Danny, Edie and Adam like going up into the air in
- 8:21these jetpack costumes. But yeah, it's been great.
- 8:24You know, it's it was, you know, the strike was rough for me and
- 8:28everybody else, I'm sure. And I was so happy to come back
- 8:32to the next episode of Gemstones.
- 8:33And then from then I did the untitled Christy Martin movie,
- 8:37which I'm very, very excited about with Sidney Sweeney.
- 8:40And now I'm on the I'm so excited.
- 8:43And that director is like a complete legend.
- 8:46So it's been great, really. Yeah, well, that's so exciting.
- 8:50And then of course we get this whole other seasons and now talk
- 8:53about the carry us through the rest of this year.
- 8:55I'm so sad it's ending, but I just really feel like this
- 8:58season is such the perfect send off.
- 9:00There's so much to get into. So let's let's try to give it a
- 9:03shot. So what were those early
- 9:05conversations like with Danny McBride and a team as you kind
- 9:09of figured out what's the season gonna look like?
- 9:11Also, maybe this is the last season.
- 9:14What do those conversations look like as you start going through
- 9:16those scripts? When you start seeing all these
- 9:19crazy moments that you and your team are getting ready to crack
- 9:21into. Well, I will say all the way to
- 9:24the beginning, when I was still like at my house and just
- 9:27getting the first script, I had talked to our line producer and
- 9:30I think like November and they were just like, you know, it's
- 9:34going to be a lot easier this season, a lot less, you know,
- 9:37heavy background costumes. We're going to do this and this.
- 9:40And I was thinking, oh, OK, great.
- 9:42Like, we can, like, maybe hone in on some of these storylines
- 9:45and, you know, we won't die. And so when I got the Civil War
- 9:51episode, I was like, what? Excuse me, What the hell are you
- 9:55talking about? So that was insane.
- 9:59And, you know, it's a lot, you know, with filmmaking and
- 10:03especially TV, there's a lot of moving parts.
- 10:06A lot of we're doing this, oh, wait, no, we're doing this.
- 10:08Oh, wait, no, we're doing this. He's not available.
- 10:10We're going to do it. So it was like we were going to
- 10:12shoot the Civil War episode. Then we had to wait.
- 10:14And then we started to telephone and then we went back to Civil
- 10:16War and it was like, insane. And as you know, you know what,
- 10:21me as a costume designer, I'm just not showing up in a suit.
- 10:24I'm like, I need for the telethon.
- 10:26It was going to have to be something insane.
- 10:28When I was talking to Danny about it, we he really loved the
- 10:32idea of these, I don't know, kind of like Jetsony shake campy
- 10:36costumes. So we actually decided to,
- 10:40instead of like ruining the the costumes in the beginning, we,
- 10:44he decided we were going to do something a little bit
- 10:46different, which is where the Angel costumes came in.
- 10:48Those actually weren't there as well.
- 10:49We had to kind of reformat that and then not even that, you
- 10:55know, that actually wasn't even that difficult in comparison to
- 10:59like Bible or excuse me, teen just and I was just like we had
- 11:05come. We went through a lot of
- 11:07different ideas with teen just we even were like talking about
- 11:09silly ideas of like, should we do like party city costumes that
- 11:13would be very junky and like taped together and it would it
- 11:16actually was really funny. I was like, I'm kind of into
- 11:18this idea. But again, it's one of those
- 11:20things that kind of goes in circles and you know, Danny's we
- 11:25chat about things and work through it.
- 11:26So, you know, this season, I think it was a tough one.
- 11:32We we had to shoot double units at the same time.
- 11:35We had half the shooting schedule as we did the season
- 11:37before. So it was a lot more difficult.
- 11:40And also, as you know, we're shooting in Charleston.
- 11:42There's nothing there. There's not even a mall.
- 11:44So everything has to be outsourced.
- 11:46Lots of things have to be built. And it was, it was a beast this
- 11:51season. But I think the payoff is good.
- 11:53I mean, there's a lot of range. Yeah, I was thinking of you when
- 11:56I watched that first episode because I was like, OK, this is
- 11:59a period Civil War film. So now Christina is taking it up
- 12:03the reins as a period costumes here for this one episode.
- 12:08So I get to ask you all the fun period questions.
- 12:10I get to ask the Sandy Powells and the con lean outwards.
- 12:13Like what did your research and prep look like for this one
- 12:17episode? And of course, Elijah Gemstones,
- 12:20played by Bradley Cooper of all people.
- 12:23So take me back to, like, preparing for that Civil War
- 12:26episode. Yeah, I mean, the great thing is
- 12:29we are in Charleston so we do have a lot more access to, you
- 12:34know, all the all the literature that you would want.
- 12:36There's a lot of re enactors and and things like that in that
- 12:39area. We, we actually were able to
- 12:42kind of go to the library and rent books and actually make it
- 12:47your checkbooks out. And, and just like working
- 12:51alongside of Richard, who is the production designer.
- 12:54And some of these concepts that we were coming up with that
- 12:56were, you know, we saw in articles like there's, there was
- 13:00talks of like there being like a camel because there was like
- 13:03certain kind of groups that had random animals.
- 13:07And I don't actually know because up until it didn't
- 13:10happen, there was supposed to be a camel.
- 13:13So that was that was quite interesting.
- 13:16I actually have done period before.
- 13:18I did a movie probably 5 or 6 years ago that was like the
- 13:231950s. I also did this movie called K
- 13:26through 12 with Melanie Martinez, which was like 1800s
- 13:29to, you know, 1950s. So period is something I'm very
- 13:34passionate about. I, you know, I I just love
- 13:37period. I owned a vintage stores kind of
- 13:39coming into being a costume designer.
- 13:42But yeah, that was interesting. Also, we did not know who the
- 13:47casting was going to be. At times we were like, is it
- 13:49going to be Danny? Because that would be hilarious.
- 13:52And then I think like, you know, Judy was like, or Edie was like,
- 13:55well, maybe I could be in there. And they, it was just, it was
- 13:58pretty funny, like kind of figuring it out because with
- 14:01gemstones, there's a lot of like, mystery.
- 14:04We don't always know what's going on until it happens.
- 14:07And then it was just like, one day, OK, Christina, you're
- 14:10getting on a plane and you're going to go fit Bradley Cooper
- 14:12in New York. And I was like, oh, OK, here we
- 14:14go. And, you know, we have to build
- 14:17the stuff because we need multiples.
- 14:19So we're packing that in. I'm trying to do prefix on his
- 14:22double S to see if, like, it'll work and what it'll look like
- 14:24because I don't want to waste his time.
- 14:25You know, he's a superstar. And yeah, I think that it really
- 14:30panned out well. I also am so adamant because
- 14:33when I was coming up as a designer, I started shopping,
- 14:37but also was an agent Dyer and I love filth and grime and
- 14:42storytelling through that. So I really wanted to have that
- 14:45on the Civil War episode. I feel like a lot of the times
- 14:48when you watch these these movies, there's not enough grime
- 14:52and filth that would really show, especially, you know,
- 14:55these guys are ragtag, they're grabbing things from other
- 14:57bodies and and things like that. So I did a lot of research.
- 15:02I really loved the aging on like All Quiet on the Western Front.
- 15:07I thought that those were it was incredible.
- 15:09So, you know, it was a lot of work, but I feel like it was an
- 15:13absolute Civil War film and it like was epic as hell.
- 15:18And I felt really fortunate. It was like one of my first
- 15:20times like Danny like was really excited and came in and we were
- 15:23like watching the Céline Dion performance and he's like, Hey,
- 15:27do you want to come watch the the, the episode?
- 15:30We are finished with it. But it was so early days and I
- 15:33felt like so fortunate that I like he.
- 15:35I don't know, it's just like a Danny's amazing.
- 15:37You know, everybody knows that I have a, a real, I just love that
- 15:41man. So it was really a really
- 15:42beautiful experience for me to kind of go and do that with them
- 15:46all together this season. I love that.
- 15:50Let's move back to the present for a little bit.
- 15:52So Eli Gemstone is really living his best Margaritaville Jimmy
- 15:57Buffett life. We've meet him in episode 2.
- 16:01I have to imagine this was a lot of fun bringing Eli into this
- 16:05life. So what what were your kind of
- 16:06inspirations and bringing him into this retired lifestyle?
- 16:11I mean, it's it's, it's honestly it is, it is how John Goodman is
- 16:17now. I feel like, you know, he does
- 16:19live in New Orleans now. Now he lives in Charleston.
- 16:22He we started incorporating it in season 3 to slowly like
- 16:27transition him into this position of extreme casual
- 16:32lifestyle. So you know, Jimmy Buffett,
- 16:33things like that. Margaritaville is exactly a
- 16:37great reference Key West. But really, it was like, I don't
- 16:42know, I feel I felt again, like, like Season 3 that he was super
- 16:47happy because he wasn't having to be miserable in suits in like
- 16:51100° weather. So it was fun.
- 16:55I mean, yeah. I mean, you know, the episode
- 16:59that's coming up. Oh, my God.
- 17:01Tonight there is a he is a he has he's in the teen just, you
- 17:06know, baby Billy's kind of talked him into something and
- 17:09it's it's very, very funny. And that was a silly little
- 17:12costume that we did with him, which I'm excited to see how
- 17:15that episode turned out. But one thing that was
- 17:18interesting is in the script, Daddy did write about him having
- 17:25this outfit that I believe it was kind of like implied that
- 17:31Lori bought it for him or whatever.
- 17:33But it was that weird with the kangle hat and the linens that
- 17:40kind of looked like white Lotus a little bit.
- 17:41So that was funny because, you know, you know, it's been a
- 17:45year. It's been such a long time.
- 17:47I've, you know, I've done so much and I I coming on the
- 17:50screen, I was like thinking like, but also I was like, hey,
- 17:54to be fair, that was written into the script.
- 17:56Most things are not, but they thought that shit was funny it.
- 18:00Was so funny. It was so ridiculous and with.
- 18:04The long hair, I was like, I'm never going to live this one
- 18:07down. But yeah, that, that was a fun
- 18:09one. And it was so silly.
- 18:11But yeah, I mean, he like again, he it's, I feel so you don't
- 18:15like, unfortunately you don't get to allow a lot of actors or
- 18:19models or whatever to to be in these elements where they can be
- 18:23comfortable. And it's like a gift.
- 18:26Yeah, sure. They were so excited.
- 18:29I know I'm like, I want to start dressing like this.
- 18:31I think his wife went and like, bought some things.
- 18:33Of course he kept some things. And I mean, yeah, it's not too
- 18:36far fetched from what he wears like on his day-to-day.
- 18:40That's so funny. He is Eli Gemstone.
- 18:42He is. Kelvin goes on such a incredible
- 18:46journey in this season. Of course we see Kelvin and Keef
- 18:51launch Prism. Kelvin wins the top Christ
- 18:54following man. And this is of course like leads
- 18:57to a flurry of like fun, colorful costumes.
- 18:59I love all the photo shoots he's doing.
- 19:01It's so much fun. Did you feel like you really got
- 19:04to play with Kelvins costumes this season?
- 19:06Just really taking him to the top of his game.
- 19:10Yeah, I think this season, you know, I love the prison
- 19:15storyline. We were talking, you know, as
- 19:17we're on the show, we don't know what's going to be, you know,
- 19:20the scripts are coming as we're there, so we don't really know
- 19:22what's going to happen or what's going to pivot or things.
- 19:25But I loved the storyline of PRISM.
- 19:28I loved being able to kind of join Keith, Keith and Calvin
- 19:33together. And a lot of the Prism looks
- 19:36that we did were very cohesive. And I don't know, it was just
- 19:40really fun to push him. I mean, again, coming into
- 19:42season 3, I was kind of going in the high priest world and then I
- 19:47kind of started transitioning into this extreme like
- 19:50flamboyant fun out-of-the-box. He's like, you know, he's in his
- 19:54queer true self. And it, it was really, really,
- 19:56really fun. You know, we did some JW
- 19:59Anderson Gucci, of course, we always do Gucci on gemstones.
- 20:03And, you know, he had a lot of his his cool shoes, but.
- 20:08Overall for the I mean, we even had like golden goose, like
- 20:10matching sequin outfits and like home to Garcon and I don't know,
- 20:14those two are so fun to dress and that that Gucci shawl, he's
- 20:20wearing it like when he when he's first goes to the top price
- 20:22following man, when it kind of gets shut down by Stephen doors
- 20:26character and he's wearing this just like I have a photo of my
- 20:29customer, like behind him like this between takes, just
- 20:32brushing the shawl down or like so he doesn't like, you know,
- 20:36because it pokes up and stuff. But it was fun.
- 20:39It's there. I'm going to miss that
- 20:42flamboyancy and peacocking that I got to do on that show.
- 20:46And I think really this season with Calvin, we've pushed,
- 20:49pushed it really, really far. And I'm, I'm very fortunate that
- 20:53we got to do that because it's crazy.
- 20:54It's that one jacket he was wearing.
- 20:57You know, we had to alter it like 3 different times because
- 20:59he was getting jacked. You know, we were like, damn,
- 21:02dude, like stay out of the gym. Like, but it was so epic on
- 21:06camera. And Prism has all those insane
- 21:09lights and all those people that we were kind of trying to do
- 21:11that like blood rave cool, like nights club kids stuff that we
- 21:15were doing and and the lighting and and it was just, it was so
- 21:19it was beautifully shot. And yeah, God, I'm going to miss
- 21:24that. I missed those.
- 21:24I already missed those sequins. Now I'm just like, I mean, it's.
- 21:29RIP. It's such a fun storyline, but
- 21:31it's also, I mean, it's I kind of cried a little bit watching
- 21:35what the last episode I watched last night.
- 21:36I was like, damn it, this is like really good.
- 21:38I hate when the show makes me cry because it really gets you.
- 21:43So when I heard Megan Mulally was joining the show, I was over
- 21:46the moon. Love her.
- 21:47Lori is such a great character and she's of course singer, but
- 21:51she's a singer. Being friends with Amy Lee.
- 21:53And I was getting like a touch of maybe like a little Bonnie
- 21:56Raitt, some Tanya Tucker, maybe some Reba.
- 22:00This is there's a lot of fun that country influences
- 22:04happening with this character, am I right?
- 22:06Absolutely. Yeah, and what was it like
- 22:09working with this character? Well, I mean, Megan Mullally is
- 22:12an icon, so, you know, just being able to be in the presence
- 22:18of greatness was so fun. I mean, you know, her husband
- 22:23was in a lot of the fittings and it was around and they're just
- 22:26oh man, incredible people. It highly intelligent, really
- 22:29aware of what's going on. You know something about the?
- 22:32Two of you just makes sense, too.
- 22:34I don't know, like you and Megan Mullally, that feels right.
- 22:38Love her, she, she, she, we are. We are very similar
- 22:41personalities. They're very funny, but also
- 22:43like crass. And I don't know, I'd love her
- 22:45so much. But yeah, I mean, a lot of the
- 22:48influence, you know, she wasn't, you know, she's, she hasn't
- 22:52spent a lot of time in that kind of humidity.
- 22:54So you try to warn people and be like, oh, you don't really know
- 22:58what's going to happen here. So, and then they get in and,
- 23:01you know, it's, it's hot as hell and, you know, you just kind of
- 23:04have to make some pivots depending on how the weather is
- 23:06going to be. Like maybe more linen.
- 23:08And, you know, we had occasionally a splash of like
- 23:11the island Fisher linen vibes just because it is extremely hot
- 23:15there. And it's just like borderline
- 23:17suffering sometimes. But yeah, like I did, I had a
- 23:21lot of like the 19th 40s ranch wears suits that I got, but most
- 23:27of those ended up in photos, which we don't see as much,
- 23:29which was so sad. But I I got like three of those
- 23:32sets that I've been dying to use basically my whole career.
- 23:37And yeah, there was a lot of like young Loretta Lynn.
- 23:42Exactly. We're saying anything, any
- 23:44opportunity that I can reference.
- 23:46Reba McEntire is, you know, God, just like the most incredible
- 23:51experience. But yeah, she was really fun to
- 23:54dress. Lots of amazing Western wear
- 23:56stuff And, and, and, you know, everything that we do on that
- 23:59show has a touch of fashion. So, you know, we we had like
- 24:04designer pieces on her that were like vintage, but kind of the
- 24:07way we did the placement of it and threw like a really cool
- 24:10vintage western jacket on it, kind of brought it together, but
- 24:12still gave it some flair, which, which was fun.
- 24:16Yeah, she she's. I honestly think it's like she
- 24:20was always been on the show. When I watch it back, I'm like.
- 24:23Has. She always been here, she flows
- 24:25and she just like molds into that perfectly.
- 24:29Yeah, it's a very natural character.
- 24:31It just made sense the second I saw her.
- 24:32I was like, well, yeah, of course.
- 24:35I always loved to interlude episodes, and this one really
- 24:39got me. I think it was just a time as
- 24:40like 2 for what, 2002, 2003 maybe?
- 24:44Seeing Kelvin in the Jimmy Neutron shirt almost put me in
- 24:48the ground but the final now in the coffin was to Spider Man
- 24:52shirt with the webbing because I had both of these shirts.
- 24:56Oh shit. And I was like, no, like this is
- 24:59me. So I oh, I missed that with
- 25:03Spider man web shirt. It was it was way too tight.
- 25:06But I remember being like, I could fly with this thing.
- 25:10Yeah. So was like working with these
- 25:14young actors and finding these like, I mean, you can't find a
- 25:17Jimmy Neutron shirt like that these days.
- 25:19So I was that challenge like. I mean, yeah, it's, it's, it's,
- 25:26it's, it's they're growing. They're, they're so amazing.
- 25:29They're so talented, they're so funny.
- 25:32And they, they really encompass Jesse and Judy's character
- 25:37specifically those two so well. It's like who freaky when you
- 25:42when you're when you're working with them?
- 25:45I I thought, you know, we did we got to have a little bit more
- 25:48fun with Judye character because she's a little bit older now and
- 25:51like, you know, we got to bring in like 555 soul and like random
- 25:55stuff. That was kind of trendy and
- 25:57cool. And then also kind of bring in a
- 25:59little bit more of like Christina Aguilera and things
- 26:03that was a little bit more, I don't know, just take her out of
- 26:06being being that kid character and bratty and kind of bring her
- 26:09to a more elevated character. So that was fun.
- 26:13Young Kelvin's character, you know, he is so damn funny and
- 26:19especially when you watch it back on like you just it's so
- 26:23hard because I don't get to spend a lot of time on set and
- 26:26when I get to go back and watch it like we were talking about, I
- 26:28haven't seen I see the episodes with everybody else minus the
- 26:311st and 2nd episode and just watching him, he is so funny in
- 26:35that spider man. I like was there's certain
- 26:37things where I'm like, I will die on cross for this and that
- 26:40spider man sure was one of them. I was like, I have to have this
- 26:44spider man. Sure.
- 26:45And it was so damn funny. And I love that, you know, you
- 26:49always notice details, which I think is great about you.
- 26:51I don't think anybody's even brought that up to me.
- 26:53And I think that shit is the web.
- 26:55Like I'm like, is this like early days Rick Owens?
- 26:59What? Are we doing here so.
- 27:02It was like a time where like target, you would go and they
- 27:05would be like the shirt and the pants, but it would like say
- 27:07like, you know, how's like the webbing in it.
- 27:09It would come like a pack. I vividly because I had a Batman
- 27:13one too. So I'm like, oh, I remember
- 27:15getting these. Yeah.
- 27:16It was spooky, honestly. So if you're like tripping,
- 27:20probably. I was like, whoa, other people
- 27:22had these. So I love that episode.
- 27:26OK, we have to talk about baby Billy.
- 27:28First of all, Walton Gargens is on a rocket ship to another
- 27:32planet. And I just have to say I kind of
- 27:35pinpoint the moment where I really start noticing it was the
- 27:38Payday song in Season 3 in the show costume.
- 27:41I'm just saying that's when I really started to notice it.
- 27:44So props to you and your team. But of course, now he's on White
- 27:48Lotus and Fallout and so on and so forth.
- 27:52This is probably my favorite baby Billy Ark.
- 27:55We've seen him go from like talk show host to singer and now he's
- 27:59like a Hollywood piece of shit. And I love that.
- 28:02It is the best Ark. He's just become a full on
- 28:05monster and I love it. He's just like, I mean, you
- 28:09probably know this character yourself, these Hollywood
- 28:12directors. I mean, how did you guys evolve
- 28:14this character this season? Yeah, I, you know, it's God.
- 28:20I mean, it's Walton. It was just so funny coming into
- 28:25it this season because Walton did come straight from White
- 28:28Lotus. Like it was like, you know, a
- 28:30completely different character that he's playing and coming in
- 28:34and landing in this world where I'm like, hey, it's me again.
- 28:37We're going to do something fair, probably.
- 28:40Stupid but. He's so game with everything.
- 28:43And I like I always, I'm just, I have to always give Walton the
- 28:48shout out. I think it could not happen to a
- 28:50better person. I'm loving seeing this
- 28:52trajectory of him. He deserves it.
- 28:54He's just for me. You don't have a lot of actors
- 29:00that are so supportive of costume design.
- 29:04And I'm really understanding it. And damn, man, he is an advocate
- 29:08for costume design. So shout out to him.
- 29:10And this season was fun because, you know, we get it.
- 29:13And it's like he's this cokehead like director and he's like he's
- 29:18thinking he's got he's just got such a big ego now because of
- 29:21the success of his past, you know, things in season 3.
- 29:25So obviously it's like, where can we go with from this from
- 29:28what he was last year? And I'm like, oh, obviously 70s
- 29:31foreign director, like, of course, that's where we're going
- 29:33to go. So it's like we went that
- 29:37direction. And you know, there was a lot of
- 29:40amazing things that I found like the Vivian Westwood two piece
- 29:43set with the cards on it, which did not get enough airtime.
- 29:47But because he has so many looks that you want to get in, you're
- 29:50like, damn it, I got to get it in somehow.
- 29:52So it was like those kind of looks were great.
- 29:54You know, we custom built that telethon look, which is like
- 30:01liquid. Love, love, love that fabric.
- 30:04So. Beautiful yeah, it's so good.
- 30:08And again, it's, it's a challenge because you know,
- 30:10season 3, I feel like he really like that oyster shell was just
- 30:14like so much for me and for him. We went somewhere with that.
- 30:18So it was like, how do I, where do I go from from here?
- 30:21It's like, what opportunities do I have?
- 30:23And you know, we, we, we did that telethon look, I think it
- 30:26was incredible. I think overall his wardrobe
- 30:28this season is so fun, so over the top.
- 30:31But then we're also now bringing in the teenagers element where
- 30:34you know, he is becoming that episode.
- 30:39Comes out today and like I've I'm gonna skip The Last of Us
- 30:43just so I can see this changes this moment.
- 30:45Like, I'm so stoked. You are not ready for this
- 30:49episode. I I mean that teen demon thing
- 30:52was just like a monster of a thing.
- 30:54It just kind of came out of nowhere and it was like, oh, I
- 30:57found this amazing, like already built costume from like Spain or
- 31:01whatever with stilts. And I was like, whoa, this could
- 31:03be cool. Like a really easy kind of cool
- 31:05costume that already comes ready.
- 31:07And I pitched it to to Watson, who is also named after the
- 31:11monkey on the show. Hey, what do we think about
- 31:15this? And then I was like, shit, I
- 31:16can't get it in time. And then I had already signed us
- 31:19up for stilts and I was like, damn it, what am I doing to
- 31:23myself? And then I had to feel like make
- 31:25a costume because that one couldn't get in time and then
- 31:27add the still element to it. And that was crazy.
- 31:30But again, another thing that you as us designers, we put so
- 31:34much into something and then you get like this of it anyway, like
- 31:38tell he's I'm still damn it. But yeah, this episode of teen
- 31:43just is going to be great. I've been looking forward to to
- 31:45this. It's, it's going to be sad for
- 31:48the show to be over. I, I, I, I feel like the whole
- 31:50world really needs a babybilly spin off.
- 31:52And I'm like, fingers crossed. Like, you know, me and my
- 31:55girlfriend were talking about it like, oh, maybe in 20 years
- 31:58they'll do like they do with everything and be like, oh,
- 31:59we're going to do a spin off. And then we're like, well, he'll
- 32:01actually be of age, maybe to actually play the rocket
- 32:04himself. So please.
- 32:08His costumes. Do you ever need me to like,
- 32:10start a petition? I will happily take the like
- 32:13technical aspect of that, but before we move on to team, just
- 32:17because I do want to talk about that a little bit more.
- 32:18I just got also like give props to till you and your team,
- 32:20because I feel like when you have a character like baby Billy
- 32:24and you already take him up to this level of like Liberace, you
- 32:27know, like they're at the they are so big and crazy, and then
- 32:31you have to still evolve them even further into say 70's porn
- 32:35director. I mean, just like, how do you do
- 32:37that? That's just seems like such a
- 32:39crazy aspect to bring this character to their, you know,
- 32:42top Pokémon form, so to say. Still find something else?
- 32:47It's, it's, it's so it's like, you know, I think that, you
- 32:52know, being an Aries with ADHD really does help me kind of come
- 32:57up with really bizarre things like off the cuff, like, yeah,
- 33:01it's like, I don't know where this shit comes up.
- 33:06Maybe it's like, like I always say, you know, Lee Bowery Mardi
- 33:09Gras, like, you know, I spent so much time in New Orleans.
- 33:12I'm so influenced. I, I, I, I went there this year
- 33:14and I just get to walk around and be in this environment where
- 33:18everybody is just larger than life.
- 33:19So I'm very fortunate. I was also Mennonite when I was
- 33:23a kid. So my mom made my dresses and I
- 33:26wore bonnets and the costumes and all that weird shit was, you
- 33:29know, part of my upbringing. So clothes have always been
- 33:33something and always over the top.
- 33:36You know, as long as I can remember, I, I, it's been my
- 33:39thing. So, you know, it's, it is hard.
- 33:42It is a challenge that fuck, man, how am I going to, what am
- 33:44I going to do? It's stressful.
- 33:46Like how can I like go bigger and bolder and different and
- 33:48pivot or honestly come down is actually harder for me.
- 33:52Like, you know, I'm going up and up and then Danny's like, oh,
- 33:55you know, like for BJ, like the poll.
- 33:58I mean, could you imagine when I was really going for for the
- 34:00poll, like it wasn't going for those?
- 34:02I literally fond of that this morning in the shower.
- 34:06No, anytime you see something that's kind of going this way,
- 34:09it's it's Danny being like, OK, we all need to go this far, you
- 34:14know? And I'm like, well, I had a
- 34:15whole like JoJo Siwa thing going on and damn it.
- 34:19But yeah, I think the bigger challenge for me is to bring it
- 34:24on down a little bit, so. My God, that's so funny.
- 34:29That's so true though. Oh my gosh.
- 34:32OK, so let's tip it. Talk about Teen Jess.
- 34:35You were getting into a little bit, but this is a biblical
- 34:37period film that's taking place in the middle of The Righteous
- 34:40Gemstones. You've already done a Civil War
- 34:42film at this point. I mean, how many types of genres
- 34:46can you fit into one season of TV?
- 34:48What was Teen Jess? A whole different challenge
- 34:50like? Have you ever done biblical
- 34:52before? No, I didn't think so.
- 34:56No, it's just so it was so like it is.
- 35:01I like, I really don't know if I'll ever come up against
- 35:05another beast like this show where it was just like I feel
- 35:08like it's and I have never even seen a show that was that's like
- 35:13this where it's like one day. And and and again, because we're
- 35:16shooting double units, we're sometimes shooting like telethon
- 35:20with civil war or like, you know, it's, it's never just one,
- 35:25one thing. Like it's always 2 at the same
- 35:27time. And teenages.
- 35:30Yeah. You know, we, we had, we wanted
- 35:32to bring this element of, of the biblical era in there.
- 35:36But then also, as you'll see in tonight's episode, we wanted to
- 35:40bring biblical era, but like, what does that look like?
- 35:44If it was colorful? So like, you know, we had two
- 35:46versions of the biblical of the biblical era.
- 35:51And then there's always other things that are going like, you
- 35:53know, maybe there's some Pharaohs in there, there's belly
- 35:57dancers and you're like, okay, like it's, it's, it's, it's
- 36:02crazy. It's, it's, it's again, it goes
- 36:04back to the ADHD and being in Aries that I'm just very much
- 36:08like, who? What's next to this challenge?
- 36:10Now? I don't sleep much, but I mean,
- 36:12I have a hell of a good time. And I think my crew, you know,
- 36:15they love it. We're always on our feet.
- 36:17And we're also like, you cannot do this kind of stuff without
- 36:21having a crew that is like pissing ourselves laughing
- 36:26almost everyday, like just bouncing ideas off of each
- 36:29other. We had like the blood rave song
- 36:31playing in the office when Steven Dorf came in and we were
- 36:34like, oh, no, this was a mistake.
- 36:36We didn't mean to show like Blade in here.
- 36:38Like we just have so stupid things like that that happen.
- 36:41Yeah, I'm going to miss it. I'm going to miss my team and I,
- 36:44I'm going to miss being in with that crew.
- 36:46And and you know, anytime I can work with Danny, it's always
- 36:51going to be a good time. Right.
- 36:53Yeah. Well, hopefully this isn't the
- 36:54last collaboration because I think we all need that,
- 36:57honestly. So, Christina, I've just
- 37:00sharing, you know, our past interview and people reaching
- 37:03out to me all the time about the costume, saying how much they
- 37:06love it. Usually.
- 37:07People are usually messaging me about baby Billy and of course
- 37:12Judy and Keef. Those are like really the big
- 37:16style icons. I feel like that people love to
- 37:19see. Their storylines maybe aren't as
- 37:21big as Kelvins this season, but they still have some really
- 37:24incredible looks. I mean, what did you do?
- 37:26You have any fun moments working with Judy and Keef this season?
- 37:31Every time I work with Tony Keith, it's, you know, he is a
- 37:36vision. I work with him in a movie right
- 37:38after this, which was the Denny Sweeney.
- 37:41So it was like, we're here and that we're here and it was very
- 37:44big. A big difference.
- 37:46You know, it's it's, I don't know.
- 37:50Judy's costumes are so fun. It's she's so exciting and she's
- 37:55just she she really is the funniest character on the show.
- 37:59And she is like in the boys club, but kind of the leader of
- 38:03the pack and like, I don't know. I just like, I just get to have
- 38:07so much fun with her. You know, that blue crazy gown
- 38:11she's wearing when the monkey's throwing like fajita meat at
- 38:15her, just like I'm pissing myself.
- 38:18But yeah, I mean, it's again with her.
- 38:21It's it's just it's Gucci, it's flash, It's pretty pretty
- 38:25Princess. It's what every girl wishes they
- 38:28could. You know, it's like little
- 38:30girls, some not all, but not me, but like they're like, oh, what
- 38:34am I getting at my wedding and blah, blah, blah.
- 38:35And I feel like Judy's like, whoa, what am I going to get
- 38:39from like, you know, Gucci runway or, you know, I don't
- 38:41know. She she's really fun to dress
- 38:43and Tony is always down, always game and you know, I part of me
- 38:50has an inner goth, so dressing him has always been really like
- 38:54a nod to to like that just really cool gothic.
- 39:00I don't know. It's just so it's like again, it
- 39:02goes back to like dark 90s club, like, you know, Berg Hein and
- 39:09all that dark shit that I just. It's very effortless for him and
- 39:13his character, actually. It is, it, is it, it, it.
- 39:17It's so easy for him. And he, yeah, he.
- 39:20I'm going to miss the hell out addressing him too.
- 39:22It's never enough leather, never enough black.
- 39:26So yeah. That brings us to the end and
- 39:29I'm, I'm kind of sad to say, but you know, since we're talking
- 39:33about the last season here, we were talking about a little bit.
- 39:35But I mean, I would love for you to just give like that a final
- 39:39shout out to your crew because there's such a massive show and
- 39:43you can't do it by yourself. I mean, you have assistant
- 39:46costume designers. The aging and dying is
- 39:48incredible. I mean, just tell me about this
- 39:50crew and all the people that really made this happen over the
- 39:53past two seasons, especially this fourth season.
- 39:55Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm a big advocate of you are
- 39:59absolutely nothing without your crew and.
- 40:02I I wish I could, you know, take them with me every single place
- 40:07I went. You know, it's Auger Moon
- 40:09specifically. She is the person that builds
- 40:13everything with me and never tells me no.
- 40:15And she's just a phenomenal joy. She you know, she's aunt she was
- 40:19Anne Roth's, you know, seamstress cutter fitter ahead
- 40:21of work room. Like, I don't even know how I
- 40:24got the lady hooded Ma Rainey's Black Bottom to come make an
- 40:28oyster shell costume with me. Like, it's like, incredible.
- 40:30And you know, my ACD is the funniest, smartest, most
- 40:37ridiculous person and she was, I like hand picked her for this
- 40:41job and she really was just exactly what I needed, you know,
- 40:46both seasons and, and, and, and I just love being around her.
- 40:50I also had a new supervisor this season who is on my show now,
- 40:54which, you know, I, I don't even know how she managed to do these
- 40:59two. You know, we got one crew doing
- 41:012 shows at the same time. So it was double the amount of
- 41:04work with the same amount of crew and that scheduling.
- 41:07And everybody doesn't even like, realize how much that goes into
- 41:11the paperwork, the scheduling, finding people.
- 41:16Hello, We need 50, you know, additional costumers today, help
- 41:20and sourcing, you know, a lot of that Civil War stuff.
- 41:23And she does it with Grace. And I'm just like, I again, I'm
- 41:27just fortunate to have her. I'm actually staying in her
- 41:30apartment now while I'm in LA. So even even more amazing.
- 41:34But yeah, you know, my adriers are incredible.
- 41:36My, my costumers are incredible. My shoppers.
- 41:39It's, it's again, it goes back to we work our asses off and
- 41:44then we go to graft and have amazing natural wine every
- 41:49weekend. And we go to the beach together
- 41:51and we go swimming and we just, it's a, it's a going, it's like
- 41:54a sleepaway camp. And that is, you know, I'm so
- 41:58fortunate. And again, I miss, I already
- 42:00miss it. And we have a group chat still
- 42:02going to this day. And I don't know, it's, it's
- 42:06just, it's sad. It's really sad.
- 42:08You know, I, I'm going to miss them and someday I'm going to
- 42:10get a big ass show again and I'll be able to bring us all
- 42:14back together again. And that's my that's, that's my
- 42:16hope. Yeah, that's beautiful.
- 42:17And you could all text each other in a group chat today
- 42:19while you're watching teen Jess. I'm sure that's.
- 42:21Happening. Oh my God.
- 42:23My God, the Walton conversations, let me tell you.
- 42:26And final, final question, what has the righteous gemstones
- 42:30meant to you and your career, Christina?
- 42:35You know, I think that for me it is, gosh, I, it's, it is
- 42:40everything to me. It, it's, it's been a loud it's,
- 42:43it's working with somebody like Danny McBride, who has been like
- 42:48opening the doors to say, you know, be you create, do whatever
- 42:53you like, whatever your hearts desire.
- 42:55So in a way, I have gotten to be Judy Gemstone and I could tear
- 42:59up like talking about it. I, it's, it's pushed me so much.
- 43:03It's humbled me a lot. And it's just like, again, I'm
- 43:09living out my, I was living out my wildest dreams.
- 43:12And it's really, you know, you, we always have imposter syndrome
- 43:15and I think we always will. And, and that was a really good
- 43:19show for me to go. Damn, I am pretty good at this.
- 43:22Like, you know, so I'm, I'm so grateful.
- 43:25I'm so grateful for the Righteous gemstones for doing
- 43:27that for me. And it's, it's, it's, it was
- 43:30always a show I I wanted to work on.
- 43:32And I can't even believe I was so fortunate enough to land that
- 43:35job and, and, and push my own boundaries.
- 43:39And I don't know, I'm just so fortunate.
- 43:42And, you know, well, I mean, look at all those amazing actors
- 43:46I've gotten to work with. I mean, Walton, like I said,
- 43:48it's just fucking incredible. But yeah, so I could go on and
- 43:52on about it. I'm, I'm, I'm loving it.
- 43:54I'm loving this episode. I'm also happy it's over.
- 43:57I think it's a great time to wrap it up.
- 43:59I hate when shows go on for seven season and you're like,
- 44:01babe, that's ended three seasons ago.
- 44:04So yeah, it's it's been fantastic.
- 44:08Well, I'm just so happy for you. I mean, this can happen to a
- 44:11better person. Congratulations.
- 44:14It's such a great series and congratulations to everyone on
- 44:16your crew and I can't wait. We have two more episodes.
- 44:19I know this is going to happen. I'm going to watch the last
- 44:21episode. I'm like, fuck, I should have
- 44:23waited a whole other two weeks to talk to Christina.
- 44:26Last time there was Bible bonkers.
- 44:29So let's see what is this time that's going to ruin my evening
- 44:32in a good way. I.
- 44:33Can't wait for you to see the finale episode.
- 44:36I am so excited and I will say June 2nd when we do or when we
- 44:41do our panel thing. I am bringing one of the
- 44:43costumes from the finale episode and it is a sleigh the house
- 44:47down boots. It is so good.
- 44:49Well, I forget I get to see you again and we could talk about
- 44:51this some more soon. So costume designer Christina
- 44:54Flannery, thank you so much for joining.
- 44:56This is so much fun. I love chatting with you.
- 44:59Thank you. And I will hopefully see you
- 45:00very soon. Yeah.
- 45:02Thank you. Spencer, I love your interview.
- 45:10She's, she knows what she's doing.
- 45:12She knows how to talk about it. Yeah, I mean, because Christina
- 45:16Flannery really is. She is a part of Gemstones
- 45:19world, you know, I think she would be friends of Judy, Kelvin
- 45:23and Jesse. They would go to her as the
- 45:25stylist for the gemstones. And Eli would probably hate it.
- 45:28Oh yeah. He'd be like, what do you need a
- 45:30stylist for? But then he'd just, like, throw
- 45:33up his hands and, like, walk out of the room.
- 45:35Yeah. He'd be like, OK, do whatever
- 45:36you want. Yeah, it was so fun.
- 45:38I love talking. I mean, the fact that she had to
- 45:41essentially design two period films within the series.
- 45:45The first episode with Bradley Cooper.
- 45:47Did not see that coming. Which everyone was like, huh?
- 45:51And then teen just I mean, that's like a whole other note.
- 45:53Like she's doing biblical work, you know, like you would see in
- 45:58the book of Clarence or you know, any, anything else
- 46:01biblical. So I mean, props to Christina
- 46:04and her entire team. What a great send off.
- 46:06Of course, this interview happened a couple days before
- 46:10the finale where we got to see Keith and Kelvin's wedding.
- 46:14I knew that was going to happen. I knew there was going to be
- 46:16something good in finale and I missed it, but I'm going to be
- 46:20seeing Christina in a couple weeks actually, so I'm probably
- 46:22just going to be bugging her about that.
- 46:24And feel like OK, I need these extra details.
- 46:28So if that feels kind of silly but we have to give a stitch
- 46:31rating on, should we do the final season of the Righteous
- 46:34Gemstones or the Gemstones as a whole?
- 46:38Let's start Righteous Gemstones season 4.
- 46:40What's your stitch rating, Spencer?
- 46:42Out of five, yeah, I'll give it a four only because I was really
- 46:51getting fed up with the gemstones and being mean to
- 46:53Laurie and Eli. The first half of it, I was
- 46:56like, enough like kids grow up. It was pissing me off.
- 47:00Yeah, I know it's a part of the like arc, but I was getting
- 47:03really frustrated with it. Same, I'm at like a 3.5 because
- 47:09of that because I was like this. There are times I was like this
- 47:12is going too far. Guys.
- 47:16And I was like, I need to go watch like the Gilded Age or
- 47:19something. I need something like.
- 47:21I just, I really wanted Eli to be happy, and they made us wait
- 47:25for it. But we do get there in the end.
- 47:27Yeah. So you know, of course, which I
- 47:29knew would happen, but sometimes you just want to take the three
- 47:32siblings and just shake them to death.
- 47:34He's. Like what are you like your poor
- 47:36father, like he's living on a boat, Like just let him do what
- 47:41he wants. He doesn't care anymore.
- 47:44But the series as a whole excellent.
- 47:47Five O 5 stitch rating for me. Absolutely.
- 47:49Yeah, no, I mean, no question. Yeah.
- 47:51It's just I can't think of a single episode in this series
- 47:54that I've been disappointed with.
- 47:55No, like it starts. I mean they had Joe Jonas in the
- 47:58second season like I forgot. About that.
- 48:01Yeah, and just like the way Walton Goggins as baby Billy has
- 48:05like captivated the world looking at this four season arc,
- 48:09I mean, yeah, it's just a perfect series to me.
- 48:12And you know, it's a perfect series because they're going out
- 48:15on their terms and ending with the fourth season.
- 48:17That's how you know that they're on a high.
- 48:19Yeah, absolutely. 5 out of five. Oh gosh, well let's play 1 cost
- 48:25and rule them off for our final time with the Righteous
- 48:28Gemstones. Yes, I made it.
- 48:32The one costume to rule them all.
- 48:39Spencer, what's your one costume to rule them all?
- 48:42OK. Well, honorable mention, I kind
- 48:44of went back and forth on this. You did.
- 48:47I'm going to say my honorable mention has to go to this very
- 48:51quick scene when the gemstones in season 4 go to find Eli on
- 48:54his boat and they throw on their most ridiculous yacht costumes.
- 48:58That's so stupid, so good. And just to me, like that is the
- 49:03like typical Christina Flannery like touch, especially like Judy
- 49:07with the Red Sailors hat. It's so silly.
- 49:11I love when the siblings are like, dressing cohesively.
- 49:15Yeah, it's absolutely like, what would you would see in like a
- 49:19Cole's family photo of like, 'cause it's all the kids and
- 49:23they're like nautical little uniforms, like in front of like
- 49:26a like blotchy they. Did the same thing in season 3
- 49:30when they went to the racetrack. Yes.
- 49:32But it's like made for a grown up, so it's like it looks
- 49:36ridiculous. It's so good but my one costume
- 49:40rule them all has to go to the very end when I saw Keith and
- 49:44Kelvin and their wedding looks. You're usually the wedding
- 49:47person but I have to be the wedding person this time.
- 49:50I love Keith's like gothy wedding look it's so dope.
- 49:56Kelvin in that white with the Cape.
- 49:59It's so sweet. I was crying.
- 50:01I was really What was your one costume to rule them all?
- 50:04So my one costume to rule them all came from the first episode.
- 50:10And again, it's the gemstone siblings dressing all alike in
- 50:14something I totally saw in like church like nativity pageants
- 50:21growing up. It's their Angel costumes with
- 50:26the hover whatever to fly across the audience for their mom's
- 50:31special. It's ridiculous.
- 50:34It's so ridiculous. And like it.
- 50:37It's also very simple, which like literally like I have seen
- 50:41children in the flesh in this costume, but it's on these full
- 50:46grown adults. It looks ridiculous.
- 50:48And then they have like this bizarre technology to like allow
- 50:52them to hover over the it's so ridiculous.
- 50:55It's so them. It's so adorable, but actually
- 50:59the wing construction is so cute because it almost has like a
- 51:03like a musical theater quality, which makes it even that much
- 51:07more fun where you know, it's not like real feathers.
- 51:10It's very theater like, which makes even more camping over the
- 51:13top. So yeah, chef's kiss.
- 51:15It's. Absolutely.
- 51:18That's a good. One and it's like, I saw this
- 51:19and I was like, oh, this is going to be a good season.
- 51:22Yeah, that's like right now the bat too.
- 51:23After that, that period, first episode and then the second
- 51:26episode, it's just costumes after costumes after costumes.
- 51:30And that brings us to the end of the Righteous Gemstones.
- 51:33I'm kind of sad about it, I know, but I'm like holding that
- 51:37hope that they're going to do like a Baby Billy spin off or
- 51:40like a Righteous Gemstones movie.
- 51:42I I kind of feel like maybe it'll be like a Gilmore Girl
- 51:46situation where in like 10 years they just do like a miniseries
- 51:50that catches you up, like with where everybody is.
- 51:53Yeah, in life. Which I'm going to guess is
- 51:55probably not very far. Yeah, probably not, unless it's
- 52:00baby Billy, like on a red carpet somewhere.
- 52:03Or baby billing like an I like an alleyway or something.
- 52:07I don't know. It could.
- 52:07It could go. Either.
- 52:09Way well, if you enjoyed this episode, make sure you e-mail us
- 52:12at theartofcostume@gmail.com. Make sure let's know what your
- 52:16one costume rule them all is from the Righteous Jumpstone
- 52:18Season 4 or honestly any costume from The Four Seasons.
- 52:23Now that we're at the end here, make sure you follow us on
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- 52:30Costume and all right, well, that brings us to the end of the
- 52:33episode, and we'll see you in our see.
- 52:36You in two weeks.