Wake Up At Four, Film Until Nine
In 2016, actor and musician Idris Elba spent several hours transforming into Krall for Star Trek Beyond. “Typically, my day would start at 4:15 in the morning. I’d be in the chair until around 7:30, shoot about 8:30,” he told Entertainment Weekly. Shooting would go until 9:00 p.m., and then he’d do the entire thing over again.
Elba also said that he’s claustrophobic and didn’t enjoy all the prosthetics on his face. Head makeup artist Joel Harlow said that the aliens in Star Trek Beyond followed aquatic and lizard-like designs that required hours of prosthetic application.