How Hair and Makeup Artists for 'Mank' and 'United States vs. Billie Holiday' Re-Created Vintage Looks
Mank Amanda Seyfried as Marion Davies Seyfried wore platinum bobbed wigs while makeup department head Gigi Williams applied makeup "somewhere between [Davies’] on-camera looks and our idea of her off-camera look." Adds assistant makeup department head Michelle Audrina Kim, "Working in black-and-white, it was key for us to shift our perspective of doing makeup; from picking products and colors not necessarily based on the color/hue, but on tonal value." Williams notes that for the director’s 1940-set film, David Fincher "didn’t want [her eyebrows] to be as skinny as the style was in that period … To create the same feel of thin brows we elongated her brows out to almost the outside corner of her eye and rounded it almost to a half-moon