WAGNER
Laszlo GALFFI
King Ludwig II of Bavaria
On this saga about Richard Wagner's 40 last years, since most characters would age, I could do everything that can be expected from a make-up artist : beauty, ageings, resemblances, period facial hair, wounds, bald caps and latex jobs. I was mainly in charge of Laszlo GALLFI's make-ups, a great hungarian actor, as the bavarian King Ludwig II. I had four different sets of postiches to do 6 différent stages of ageing.
I was also in charge of other principals such as Eckerhard Schall, (Frantz Liszt - 3 important steps from mid-age to old age), Sir Ralph Richardson (Pfordten), Gemma Craven (Minna, Wagner's first wife), Marthe Keller (Mathilde Wiesendonck) and Vanessa Redgrave as Cosima Von Bulow) ; one can see them on the DVD Label. And many more…
I wish I could find more photos of this most interesting shooting.
Above : real afghan President Pabrack Karmal
Left : actor in make-up
For this film - shot on locations in Marocco in extraordinary conditions for me (no lab, no oven to cure any foam latex appliance, shooting only at night due to a canicular Ramadan) - I had to improvise this President of Afghanistan look alike in only one day from 10 am till 10 pm. I cast the actor, sculpted the new features on his plaster face, molded those sculptures and brush cast some latex shell pieces (pouches, nose, chin and jowls). Now, I wish I had shaven some of the actor's hairline to match the original's widow peak…
Re-create real characters from photos, although a pleasure, is not an easy thing in any way. But when one must hasten to work to be in time after a colleague's defection and when, moreover, an actor (Claude Melki) has a broken nose after an attack, then, things turn really delicate. By chance, the two actors were extremely cooperative and things turned out really nicely.
Claude Melki : Foam latex nose and chin.
Gregorio Manzur : foam latex upper orbits, cheeks and pouches and nose.
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