Oscar-Nominated Makeup Will Transform A Person
When French-Algerian dancer Sofia Boutella played Jaylah in Star Trek Beyond, her fans didn’t recognize her. She spent four hours every day in a makeup chair with an Oscar-nominated team. Joel Harlow, the Academy Award-winning makeup artist, said that only Boutella’s nose, mouth, and chin were hers. The rest were prosthetics.
Despite the hours of painstaking application, Boutella loved the costume. She said that it allowed a meditation process to get her into character. “I like that second skin,” she told an interviewer with FilmIsNow. “It’s like, as soon as I had it on, you feel in character.”