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NBC’s “The hunting party“Has a haunting premise: a secret government program falsifies the deaths to the country’s worst, most violent killer and then holds them in a prison called Pit for Scientific Study – until an explosion on the site releases them in nature. Now, FBI profiles Bex Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh), CIA agent Ryan Hassani (Patrick Sabongui) and former pit -guard Shane Florence (Josh McKenzie) have to track the murderers before they can murder again. At best.
The episodes have psychopaths and sociopaths, serial orders and excitement-in addition to a season-long mystery about how the explosion occurred-and it can be a heavy day’s work for everyone on set. So makeup department manager Paige Gatzka set up a policy to keep the mood as easily as she could.
“I am really very aware that how they leave my trailer set pretty much the tone for the rest of the day,” Gatzka told Indiewire. “The days are long. You are there for hours and hours. So I always like to keep things very quiet in the morning. And one of the best things about being on this production is that the role really loves each other. We implemented a crane ratio, and it basically said: “The happier you are, the more hugs you get.” So if you reach 12 hugs a day you will be the happiest. “
These hugs probably came in handy when the three joints meet some contemptible characters – often suffering injuries themselves during the episodes. “For the most part, we let the makeup break down over the section, depending on what they do, what they have gone through, where to go,” Gatzka said. “The whole series was really amazing. There are many different things that happen throughout the season, and (we) just keep track of everything when we join so that we can make the subtle changes quickly on the set to reflect the different things they have undergone. ”
Gatzka handles that issue partly by conquering and dividing and assigning the members of the department to keep track of individual characters. Everything that is far from her previous stint as the makeup department is head of CW’s “The Flash.”
“‘The Flash’ was obviously incredible for so many reasons,” she said. “But on ‘The Flash’, you can go through a tornado, and you will still look beautiful. You know, that’s the way for CW and it was really fun. Definite to get into the” hunting party “, it was a lot more realistic and obviously much more traumatic things happen.
Gatzka partly refers to the killer section (“These actors are all the nicest people,” she said with a laugh) and partly to Flashbacks throughout the season. And they became as complicated for the makeup team as they are dramatic to watch because of the bluer tones in their film.
“Once you get into the lighting, everything doesn’t work,” Gatzka said. “For example, if a girl carries redness: you look in the mirror and you think,” Oh wow, this looks neat and soft and delicious. “When you get into the blue light it looks like a bruise. We definitely had to call down such things. And even undertones in men’s skin shines differently when you are in blue light. It was to get them to the set And make sure that when we got into these close -ups, nothing shines because we didn’t want to be there.
And it says something, because both Sabongui and McKenzie have skin “like going filter,” Gatzka said. “It was more tending to their facial hair, gave them things for their remediation and did minimal makeup,” she said. Ah yes – facial hair on a series comes with its own set of challenges.
“Of course don’t have facial hair yourself, it’s something you really have to learn, right?” Said Gatzka. “Everyone’s facial hair is completely different. You think you got it. You go to someone else, and you are, “Everything I knew was out the window.” So it’s really just trial and wrong. As much as the plans are there, you have to make daily changes to make sure everything is coherent. “
“The Hunting Party” premieres new episodes on NBC Monday Nights at. 22.00 et. The first section now flows on peacock; The series returns to NBC with new episodes February 10.
