Published at: Nov. CST by headgeek. Movie News. Hey folks, Harry here with something a bit out of the ordinary. What you have below isn't a formal interview. It was the last week of shooting principal photography and it had been a long and trouble filled beginning.
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Los concursantes se enfrentan a un reto con un giro inesperado; deben crear un tercer personaje basado en primates. Todos los derechos reservados. Not surprisingly, as a child, he was utterly fascinated with monster movies, especially the horror classic, "Frankenstein," starring Boris Karloff. Between matinee screenings of horror films in theaters and watching all manner of B-movies on television, he found inspiration at the newsstand with Famous Monsters of Filmland, a magazine that served as something of a holy periodical for young horror movie fans. After reading countless behind-the-scenes stories, the preteen Baker knew then that he wanted to become a Hollywood makeup artist.
Popular Mechanics: Did the filmmakers know they wanted to do a wolfman in makeup right away, or did they need convincing? Rick Baker: The original director, Marc Romanek, felt very strongly that the wolfman should be a guy in a makeup, and so did Benecio [del Toro]. He's a big fan of the original Wolf Man and the Universal horror films, and he really felt it should be a makeup.
Folklore and pop culture has codified the steps of how you turn into a werewolf , and it's not pretty. While the end result might be cool, the steps of turning into a werewolf are all pretty painful for your human form to handle. There is usually a lot of screaming, snapping, stretching, and howling involved.