Sherlocked UK 2017 #12 on hair styles
During the make up workshop with Claire Pritchard-Jones I got the chance to ask some questions..... (annoying question me striking again ;-)))
Claire was talking about Ben’s wig for TAB which they made especially to have a good continuity for the modern time scenes as his own hair had to be cut short for the Victorian style
ME: Claire, may I ask... speaking of continuity... why did you chose for Martin’s and Amanda’s hair style to be totally different from the ones they had in HLV? Because regarding the timeline there wouldn’t be much time between the end of HLV and the start of TST?? Isn’t it?? I mean.. not enough time to grow the hair that much... innit?
CLAIRE: Yeah... THAT was mostly Martin’s doing... he came back from another project having this long-ish hair and ..well.. he quite liked it! And he had the oppinion that his character had moved on and that he’d like to make that visible! Same with Amanda... I mean they were married and all..they were different now and they wanted to show that on screen. And Martin was kind of really fond with his new hair style... well... and as a style artist you sometimes have to do it with what you get. You know... we try to suggest things... we talk a lot about it with the actors and of course I have a certain picture of how that would look like... but we would never force an actor into something... if they’re really not comfortable with something we’d never force them to do something they don’t like!!!! Well... and that was with Martin... he was very convinced about this idea and... well.. you know... we talked about it... and Sue was like “please just make Martin stay happy” *laughing*... so there we went.... I tried to ease the look a bit throughout the series though... *smirk* ... if you watch closely you’ll see that the style becomes a bit more moderate... We were ... I gues... one week into shooting, when Martin started to doubt... he came to me and said : “Did I make a mistake??”...but..you know... ther was already so much filming done, different important scenes... because of course we don’t shoot chronologically... this were scenes spread all over the episode... so we couldn’t just re-do them.... So we stayed with the style and modified it a bit... *laughing again*... we have to work with what we get!!! It isn’t always easy!!!
ME: But if John’s hairstyle changed because his character changed....I wonder... did you ever think about changing Sherlock’s hair style as well?? Because.. I mean... his character developed a lot too, isn’t it??? Especially as we know that Ben hates it.....
CLAIRE: Oh... you know... most of all Ben hates it because he cant’t handle it on his own. He just comes to me after showering, hiding under a hat or something... and his hair is like... *makes messy-hair movements around her head* *laughing*.... but then after a while when we put conditioner in and then we “twist and diffuse” you know... and then he’s fine... but he just couldn’t do that on his own... I mean.. which man possibly could *laughing* !!! But no, we never wanted to change that style. We put a lot of thought into that style...from the pilot on we had lot’s of talks about it and tried different things... and this is what we stayed with! And now it’s such an iconic look, we won’t change Sherlock’s look....
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(please be aware, that I recount all this from my memory and therefore bring it into my own words. I have no records, so this is not word for word what the people in question actually said!! I try to word the main essence of the sometimes rather ridiculous long monologues *eyeroll* :-)))
