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Timothée Chalametwanted to bring a taste ofTiger Kingto the set ofDon’t Look Up.
In an interview withVogue, costume designer Susan Matheson said the 26-year-old actor wanted his character Yule to look similar to Joseph “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage from the hit Netflix series.
“The first thing he said to me was ‘I want a mullet,’ and of course, he sent me pictures of Joe Exotic,” Matheson told the outlet. “At the time everyone was obsessed with Joe, but instead I found this guy from New Zealand who had this amazing mullet and the moment I showed it to Timotheé, he said: ‘Bingo!'”
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As Matheson explained in theVogueinterview, director Adam McKay was looking to insert “signs of the impending doom” both big and small. For Yule, who was raised as an Evangelical Christian, Matheson wanted to incorporate his faith into his costume.
“I wanted to reference the religious element of his character, so I used vintage patches and T-shirts from Christian camps,” she explained. “They aren’t always visible, but underneath his other clothes he’ll always have on one of those shirts.”
“I get very excited whenever there is any character like that,” she added, “but here, we had several.”
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Among those characters isAriana Grande’s portrayal of pop star Riley Bina. Matheson wanted to make sure she separated Grande’s personality from Bina’s as much as possible.
“I knew I had to do something that was contrary to how Ariana looks in real life,” she told the outlet. “I went through everything she’d ever worn in a music video or was photographed in during an event. I wanted to do something much edgier than what we’re used to seeing her in.”
Don’t Look Upis now streaming on Netflix.
source: people.com
