‘One Night in Miami’ Makeup Artist on How He Created the Looks for Four Famous Faces
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorMakeup head and prosthetics designer Scott Wheeler put four distinct transformations into Regina King’s “One Night in Miami.”Wheeler, who is on the Academy shortlist for makeup and hairstyling, was tasked with re-creating four icons for the film: Cassius Clay, played by Eli Goree; Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge); Malcolm X, played by Kingsley Ben-Adir and Sam Cooke, played by Leslie Odom Jr.Wheeler and his team had four actors with different preferences about makeup and hair.Neither Ben-Adir and Goree wanted prosthetics, while Hodge and Odom Jr. did.