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Know Your History: “V” Make-Up Designer Leo Lotito

March 19th, 2009 • Related • Filed Under
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From visitorsamongus.com
Back when “V”: The Series premiered in the fall of 1984, Warner Bros. issued a press kit for the show that included a number of interviews, including this one with make-up designer Leo Lotito.

Lotito, whose credits include Planet of the Apes, is working with a crew of six full-time makeup artists at least 12 hours a day. “We are using a very involved and complicated makeup process in order to reveal the faces of the seemingly friendly Visitors,” Lotito explains. “Layers of foam latex prosthetics are applied to the actors so that when the outside human skin is pulled off, it reveals the reptilian prosthetics underneath. The audience will then see that they are aliens. Prosthetic masks are made for each actor so that they genuinely look like that person.  “Sometimes,” he continues, “we are called upon in my department to do things that are impossible. In the first four-hour miniseries, Diana, the alien commander, swallowed a guinea pig, which required her to open her mouth six inches.”  See the full article Here.

A feat to be sure, but it’s nothing compared to the ballsy move ABC is making.  Did you know ABC is looking to resurrect the V miniseries? Oh… YA!

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