‘Coming 2 America’ Hair And Makeup Team Say Re-Creating Iconic Looks Was “Enormous Task” – Contenders Film: The Nominees
deadline.comThirty-four years after the original Coming to America was released starring Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall, a sequel, Coming 2 America, finally arrived — and like the first film has been Oscar-nominated for its makeup and hairstyling.
Tasked with bringing it all up to date and making the various guises and multiple roles Murphy and Hall take on really work for a new audience are Mike Marino, who did Special Effects Makeup, as well as Hair Department heads Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer.
They all joined me on Amazon Studios’ panel for Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees.For Marino, just walking in the shadow of seven-time Oscar winner Rick Baker’s original creations was daunting.“So Rick Baker is essentially a guru in our industry, and still is even though he is retired now.
I was a huge fan of the original, and Rick’s work stood out so strongly to me as a kid it forged these things in my mind as to how these things should look,” Marino said. “Doing this job for me was like a dream come true.
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