I loved this interesting video about the Fifth Element
Interesting video of Milla Jovovich about The Fifth Element
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My teenage celebrity crush
That hair story. Oof.
That hair story. Oof.
My teenage celebrity crush
That hair story. Oof.
I know right? But I feel bad for her that all the stuff made her actual hair fall out
A close friend of mine had it happen to her after a few months of cycling between colours. Ended up with it all cut off and it's still growing back. I just assumed Hollywood people would have a magic and expensive way of doing it without destroying the hair.
They do, they're called wigs. But sometimes they go for the chemical option anyway.
It's kinda funny when people talk about "Hollywood" as if it's some great monolithic institution and repository of all movie making knowledge and experience.
In reality "Hollywood" is REALLY bad at preserving any institutional knowledge, mostly because for the last 40 odd years it's been just a whole bunch of independent contractors, hired on piecemeal from one project to the next. What experience and institutional knowledge that does exist tends to be passed down in a manner that has more in common with ancient apprenticeships than anything resembling modern academia.
It's all very cliquey and insular, and people make really dumb mistakes like this all the time. Mostly because jobs like this often go the the lowest bidder, and as anyone that's worked in that kind of ecosystem knows: the lowest bidder is always the biggest bullshitter, and liable to get in over their heads very quickly. Another factor of course is that movies are mini-dictatorships, and if the Director or EP says "get it done", more often then not some lowly hair and make-up artist isn't about tell them "no", because that's them fired.
Seriously, look up how Linda Blair's spine got fractured while filming 'The Exorcist' and tell me someone didn't bite their tongue to "get it done" rather that speak up and say "no, that's quite obviously stupidly dangerous, let's not do that."
In reality "Hollywood" is REALLY bad at preserving any institutional knowledge, mostly because for the last 40 odd years it's been just a whole bunch of independent contractors, hired on piecemeal from one project to the next. What experience and institutional knowledge that does exist tends to be passed down in a manner that has more in common with ancient apprenticeships than anything resembling modern academia.
It's all very cliquey and insular, and people make really dumb mistakes like this all the time. Mostly because jobs like this often go the the lowest bidder, and as anyone that's worked in that kind of ecosystem knows: the lowest bidder is always the biggest bullshitter, and liable to get in over their heads very quickly. Another factor of course is that movies are mini-dictatorships, and if the Director or EP says "get it done", more often then not some lowly hair and make-up artist isn't about tell them "no", because that's them fired.
Seriously, look up how Linda Blair's spine got fractured while filming 'The Exorcist' and tell me someone didn't bite their tongue to "get it done" rather that speak up and say "no, that's quite obviously stupidly dangerous, let's not do that."
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