How ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ Hair and Makeup Team Gave Jessica Chastain Those Outrageous Eyes, Brows and Hair
people who recreated it in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” with a full-hearted “Hallelujah!”For the film’s makeup artist Linda Dowds and hairstylist Stephanie Ingram, nominated for Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling along with prosthetics whiz Justin Raleigh, Bakker’s commitment to her appearance was key to reproducing it on the film’s star, Jessica Chastain. The movie traces several decades of Bakker’s life, from fresh-faced 1960s Bible college student to exhaustively made-up ex-television personality trying to bounce back from the scandal that sent her then husband to prison in 1989. According to Dowds, the hardest era to nail was the tattooed, harder-edged later years.