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\n\tThe\u00a079th<\/sup>\u00a0edition\u00a0of the\u00a0Locarno Film Festival will have Oscar royalty in the house on Wednesday evening \u2013\u00a0well, on its big 8,000-seat square, the Piazza Grande, to be precise. It will bestow its Vision Award, presented by\u00a0Ticinomoda,\u00a0upon Rick Baker, a seven-time Oscar winner, a record in the makeup and hairstyling field, and the creator behind some of cinema\u2019s most fantastical creatures.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhile at the Swiss festival, Baker is also presenting two key films from his career, namely An American Werewolf in London<\/em> (1981) and The Nutty Professor<\/em> (1996). The former marked his first Oscar win in 1981, followed by Harry and the Hendersons<\/em> (1987), Ed Wood<\/em> (1994), The Nutty Professor<\/em> (1996)
Men in Black<\/em> (1997), How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/em> (2000) and The Wolfman<\/em> (2010).<\/p>\n

\n\tYou also know Baker\u2019s work from Michael Jackson\u2018s famous Thriller<\/em> video, in which he also played an on-screen role.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom his early\u00a0make-up\u00a0work on genre films in the 1970s to his sophisticated creature and character designs for large-scale studio productions, Rick Baker has forged a new visual grammar for cinematic metamorphosis, earning him a record number of Academy Awards for best makeup and cementing his status as a reference point for generations of artists,\u201d said Locarno organizers when they first unveiled his honor.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRick Baker\u00a0was responsible for\u00a0a Copernican revolution in cinema: visionary and revolutionary, he opened new paths for the imagination of entire generations, showing what it truly means to\u00a0witness\u00a0physical transmutation on the big screen,\u201d highlighted Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro.\u00a0\u201cHis filmography includes collaborations with George Lucas and David Cronenberg, Brian De Palma and Joe Dante, Tim Burton and Peter Jackson, John\u00a0Carpenter\u00a0and Mike Nichols, among many others.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore arriving in Locarno for his festival honor, Baker, 75, talked to THR<\/em> about some of his best-known creations and some of the wacky experiences he had during his career. <\/p>\n

\nWhy did you end up wanting to work in the fields of makeup and transforming the look of actors and other performers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI grew up in front of the TV. It was that first generation of kids to grow up in front of a TV. I loved those monster movies, and I loved the makeups. In Frankenstein<\/em>, Boris Karloff just blew me away. Before I realized that makeup artist was what I wanted to be, I used to think I wanted to be a doctor because I wanted to be Doctor Frankenstein. I wanted to be a doctor, and I was going to have a basement laboratory, and I was going to make monsters. But then I grew up a little bit and also found out that I\u2019m extremely squeamish \u2013 I don\u2019t like the sight of real blood.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso, my dad was kind of a ham. He\u2019s actually in Schlock<\/em>. In the first of the banana murders, there\u2019s a dead guy on the ground. That\u2019s my dad. But [director and star] John Landis redubbed his voice with his own voice. <\/p>\n

\nHow did you go about creating the look of a character, especially since you would work with all these made-up characters, such as the Grinch? Does the personality of the actors play into how you create a look at all? <\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I got a call from Brian Grazer who said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to do How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/em>, and we want Jim Carrey to be the Grinch.\u201d I thought that\u2019s great because Jim can make a lot of faces. I almost immediately visualized what it ended up being. <\/p>\n

\nSo that was all smooth sailing?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, the studio kept saying, \u201cWe just want Jim to be painted green.\u201d And I went, \u201cNo, that\u2019s going to ruin the movie.\u201d You know, it\u2019s not called How the Green Jim Carrey Stole Christmas<\/em>. It\u2019s the Grinch, so he should be this recognizable character. It is hard turning a 2D drawing into something. But I took what I could from that and added some Rick Baker to it. But to convince them to go with what I thought was the right way, I did the makeup on myself, filmed it and sent it to them. They went: \u201cWell, it doesn\u2019t look like Jim Carrey!\u201d And I said: \u2018Well, it will look more like Jim when it\u2019s on Jim.\u201d I mean, our face is very different. You\u2019re not paying him for the look but for his acting, and he\u2019s going to make this thing a really cool character. <\/p>\n

\n\tWe prepared for 10 different tests \u2013 from painting Jim Carrey green to what we eventually ended up with. I eventually felt I had to save these guys from themselves and from making a wrong decision here. I contacted Ain\u2019t It Cool News<\/em>, and they wrote a post along the lines of: \u201cRick Baker did this really cool makeup on himself as the Grinch, and Universal wants to paint Jim Carrey green.\u201d And there were thousands of responses. So, two weeks before filming, they decided, okay, we\u2019ll go for it.<\/p>\n

\nWas there any other challenge with the Grinch movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tActually, the bigger problem I saw was the Whos, the people in Whoville. In the book, they look almost like insect people, which is going to be too weird. And as Cindy Lou Who, they cast a six-year-old Taylor Momsen. And I said: We can\u2019t put a little girl into a three-hour makeup [session]. So we came up with a whole way that we thought it would all work. I rationalized a lot on the Whos, saying: When they\u2019re little, their nose is more human-like, but as they grow, it moves up their face. So we could just paint her nose a little different color and give her these big teeth and give Cindy the long eyelashes. <\/p>\n

\n\tNow, she\u2019s a kick-ass rock star. I don\u2019t know if you know. She\u2019s in a band called The Pretty Reckless as the lead singer. She opens for AC\/DC. She opened for the [Rolling] Stones. She\u2019s really great. She\u2019s got an incredible voice, and we became friends because I had daughters of the same age, and my daughters are in the Grinch movie too in a couple of scenes. <\/p>\n

\nHow did you come up with the ideas for Michael Jackson\u2019s Thriller<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nThriller<\/em> wasn\u2019t as hard as a lot of other things I\u2019ve done. It was kind of a no-brainer. I had done zombies before. Michael saw American Werewolf<\/em>, and that\u2019s why he hired John [Landis] as the director. He wanted to transform into a werewolf. Personally, I didn\u2019t think he should be a werewolf. I thought he was much more feline. So I suggested we make him a werecat. I just thought the feline structure fit him much better.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe thing with Thriller<\/em> was that we had no time and very little money on my end, and it was really just me working my butt off for weeks. Also, the dancers weren\u2019t cast until the very end, and I said to John: \u201cI can\u2019t do what I normally do in a few days with this many people. Normally, we\u2019d take a live mask of the people, sculpt custom appliances for them, mold them, cast them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, he suggested a different solution: \u201cI said I think what I can do is make some generic pieces that really are just in this area of a bandit mask, so you don\u2019t have to deal with the proportions of the nose. We could make big teeth that we could put in them with some denture-like material, but I said that\u2019s not going to be cool enough. So I said we should have featured zombies that are much cooler than the others. My crew and I all had our life casts already. I also had my body cast. So we started doing very cool zombies that we knew would be much more exciting than the dancer zombies. So, I\u2019m in Thriller<\/em>. My whole crew is also in Thriller<\/em>. I am the bearded zombie who opens the crypt with my eyes rolled up.<\/p>\n

\nDoes it help with your makeup choices that you have put makeup on yourself?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tI think it\u2019s important. I think a makeup artist should have been made up, so they know what it\u2019s like on the inside.<\/p>\n

\nAnd beyond your cameo in Thriller<\/em>, you have acted a few more times, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYes, I played King Kong in the 1976 King Kong<\/em>, directed by Federico\u00a0De Laurentiis and produced by [his father] De Laurentiis, for which I made the suit. And I was determined not to be a whiny, complaining actor in that, like some people are when you put makeup on them. I didn\u2019t have a dressing room. So, I would have to take my street clothes off on the stage and put this bear hide suit on and then sit there and sweat my brains out.<\/p>\n

\nI read that you stepped in to play King Kong late in the process<\/strong> and that there was some debate about whether to use your gorilla suit or another one?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I was younger, all the information I had about what a gorilla was came from movies, especially the original King Kong<\/em>, and from any movies in the \u201940s. I thought a gorilla was a real-life monster, and I started looking at films with gorilla suits in it and finding books and National Geographics<\/em> and other things with gorillas in them. When I was younger, I thought I could make a realistic gorilla costume and fool people with it. So I was set on that path. The problem was I grew up very lower-middle-class. So to make a gorilla suit was a really hard thing, but I figured out ways to do it on a budget.<\/p>\n

\n\tYears later, John Landis and I had become friends, and one day he goes, \u201cHey, did you hear some Italian guy is going to remake King Kong<\/em>?\u201d Somehow they got my number and knew that I had made a gorilla costume, and I thought this would be my only opportunity to really have a budget and make a real gorilla suit. This was in the era of disaster movies, and Kong was just another disaster. And they wanted to make him more like a primitive man.<\/p>\n

\n\tI was 25 years old and went in there. I don\u2019t have a filter. So, I brought in these mechanical gorilla hand extensions so you could have longer arms. They said: \u201cWe don\u2019t need that shit. It\u2019s going to be more man-like.\u201d I thought these guys were fucking crazy. If anything, it should be a super gorilla. It should not be less of a gorilla. Kong is the greatest gorilla ever. They would rag on the original movie, and I just said: \u201cYou\u2019ll be lucky if you can make anything near that film.\u201d But I was still interested, and I thought I could convince them to change their mind.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut I didn\u2019t hear from them, so I took another film. And as soon as I took the other film, they called me and said, \u201cYes, we want you to do this.\u201d So I told them need six weeks to complete this other thing. When I came back, in the meantime, Dino had hired his friend from Italy, Carlo Rombaldi. They said he was a genius and wanted us to work together. But he didn\u2019t speak English, and I don\u2019t speak Italian. How\u2019s that going to work? And it\u2019s not a good thing to have two bosses.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey wanted us both to make a test suit, we had six weeks. I think I had something like $10,000, which to me was a lot of money back then, so by myself, basically in my garage, I threw away the drawings they gave me, and I made a gorilla suit. <\/p>\n

I showed up on the day with my suit, and they were furious. \u201cThis looks nothing like what the drawings we gave you. What the hell?\u201d Carlo didn\u2019t have enough time to get the suit done, but he convinced them he could make a 40-foot robot that would do the whole movie. I thought he was delusional. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut they wanted to do some tests, and they only had my suit and me. It fit me, so they, regretably, were using me as King Kong for the test. But they started to get used to me and the costume and look of the suit. A month later or more, Carlo got his suit done, and it was much more like the drawings they gave us, but it was a disaster. For example, my suit had a mechanism where I could control the mouth with my own jaw movements. His suit didn\u2019t have any such mechanism. <\/p>\n

\n\tAnd John Guillerman, the director, said, \u201cRick, put your suit on.\u201d And he looked at Carlo\u2019s suit. And then he was pointing at mine and said, \u201cYeah, this is better.\u201d So they picked mine. From there, it was a team effort, but I designed it. And I played King Kong, but the publicity was about a giant robot, so they didn\u2019t want anybody to know that it was this 25-year-old kid in a gorilla costume. <\/p>\n

\nYou are retired, but do you still do any acting or so?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI have done a few things, but just for friends, mostly. My wife and I are in the latest Anthrax video. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re familiar with Anthrax. The name of the song is \u201cThe Edge of Perfection,\u201d and my wife plays my magician\u2019s assistant. The video was directed by Joel Harlow, who\u2019s a makeup artist that I had work with. He\u2019s one of the new makeup artists who do some great stuff. And it\u2019s fun for me. I like dressing up and being somebody else.<\/p>\n

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