“I will start my speech by saying how wonderful it is, but I still have things to achieve in my career,” Oscar-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan Told indieview about her recent career performance by Costume Guild. “And I still have a little mortgage to pay. “
Fortunately for Beavans mortgage and for all of us it does not seem as if someone wants Beavan to stop working at any time soon. Her designs include a huge string of what we imagine when we think of our favorite films from the last 40 years, from Merchant Ivory Films to “Furiosa.” The wide range is reflected in her in three Oscar winnings – for “a room with views,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and “Cruella.”
“I take things if they interest me,” Beavan said. “And I love to work. I mean, I don’t want to work absolutely every day of the year, but I really like the challenge, motivation and collaboration with it and work as part of a team. ”
As with everything else, Beavan’s work begins with the script. After reading it through, she will start plotting the characters in the special world, a reason why she originally found “Fury Road” into a challenge, which made her win all the sweeter.
George Miller contacted her about it filmand worked with it filled Beavan with “terror.” But the collaboration came to the rescue. “When you just see it as a story and you work with, OK, she has this arm and you have to support your arm in some way, so it was really important to have something very stuck around her center to put on the harness. So you Have some things that feel logical and then you just work from there and it fell into place.
But there is always an anxiety level when you go into a new project. Or, as Beavan said, “almost every production is,” I don’t know what this should be, oh my good! “Then you think somehow,” Oh, come on, get over it. ”
It helps that Beavan is an instinctual designer whose extensive research on pre -production lays a solid basis for their work. “I mean, now the computer is fantastic,” she said. “We used to have to go to BNA and the library there. And as you can probably see, there are many books behind me, which I have been collecting for many years. So I have wonderful research material. And then I go for a walk or I shop, just regular supermarket shopping. And at that moment your mind has gone for free, but you actually have all the information. And that’s when you get a light bulb moment. “Beavan paused. “Or you hope you get a light bulb moment.”
Glåsa moment has been, but more vital, Beavan points to the relationships she has formed throughout her life, starting with a colleague dance class student when she was 3 who led to her merchant ivory by asking her working with the costumes for her very first movie project .
“My wonderful friend Nick, he was an assignment editor for Melvin Bragg’s art program ‘The South Bank Show’, and they ordered this script, ‘Hullabaloo over Bonnie and George’s Pictures’ (a 1978 TV film directed by James Ivory),’ Beavan said. “Nick asked I would go and help Peggy meet a wardrobe with clothes. She played an eccentric English art dealer traveling to India. And I walked around to her, and we went well and we had no money. I mean, it pulled it from her clothes and my clothes and just put together anything. And the second time I saw her she just said: ‘My dear, we are going pretty well. They have given me a first -class ticket. I am a little worried about going to India on my own. If I change it for two economies, do you come with me? ‘So there I landed in Royal Georgetown and basically did everything they wanted me to do. The crowd collects, acts in it, you know, you’re called it, I did it. And I became part of the family. “
And on that note, Beavan has a story about the ivory reaction to “Mad Max: Fury Road.” “When James Ivory saw” Fury Road “in 2015, he sent me the following e -Post,” she said. “He was probably a 80-time at that time. And it went so: ‘Jenny, I didn’t take you up to run around deserts with half -naked men and barely dressed women who carry pieces of old overall and transparent veils. I like quite chrome that sprayed on the lips on the young man, but it wasn’t you, I guess. You now live in Berlin, I hear. Perhaps this is the cause of your sudden change in costume style. ‘Isn’t that the best e -mail ever? “
