6 years if you count the pilot.
Letting go of this one is hard.
But what a privilege it was to love something this much.
I love you, Bears 🤎
Swipe to see my favorite view in Chicago every morning.
#thebear #ElOso
Meet Kay
Kay Scarpetta’s timeline was about maintaining identity.
Rosy McEwen’s transformation into the past version Kay Scarpetta set in 1998 focused on matching the vibe of Nicole’s current Scarpetta first, and by vibe I mean BROWS.
The brows were darkened and shaped to echo Nicole’s present day tone and proportions, while older photos of Nicole were used only as bone structure reference.
I covered Rosy’s beauty mark under the brow, reshaped the nose with light and shadow, and softened the chin dimple to bring her closer to Nicole’s facial architecture.
After extensive negotiations between the studio, genetics, and my OCD, the rest was kept minimal and true to 1998, based on the aesthetic choices Kay would have made at that point in her life.
Not Nicole in the 90s.
Just Kay, but with a little less trauma.
#Scarpetta
Meet Dot.
How do you create a character who is the PAST version of one of the most iconic faces in film history, set in a year when said iconic face was already a household name, without turning your actor into a Halloween costume of that person? (no pun intended).
That was the tightrope with 1998 Dorothy whose 2025 version is played by Jamie Lee Curtis.
With Amanda Righetti’s 98’ version, the goal was to capture Jamie’s energy, confidence, danger, sexuality if the late 90’s. Enter: True Lies.
Yall know what scene I’m talking about… 🔥
A masterclass on a silver platter on the confidence, danger and sexuality Jamie carried so effortlessly in that period. (But with a Pamela lip, of course. Hi @maccosmetics Spice liner!)
The 90’s period makeup came second.
First we changed the structure of Amanda’s face, reshaping the brows to echo Jamie’s bone structure, shifting the nose and mid-face and chin with light and shadow, match freckles, reshaping the eyes slightly with waterline highlight.
Once the transformation felt right after some forehead expression lines and strategically placed tape to shape the jaw, the blush, shadow and lip color were placed using late 90s references (Pamela, Jamie, Carmen, Denise) so the character would feel like she existed in 1998.
Because she did.
#scarpetta
The Stumble finale airs tonight, Daytona!.
The one we were all working toward from the first day in New York.
I am still in awe with how perfectly this show came together. My team @erin.m.acker and @mikeyclifton who signed their lives away to me for the entire fall/winter and jumped in head first into buckets of glitter and tattoo cover without ever filing an official complaint. The quality of work you both created is worthy of the Louvre or at the very least protective glass. You made this show beautiful. I love you both so much.
And my hair counterpart @mzambrano.hair thank you for making me laugh nonstop, like it should qualify as emotional support at a medical level. Your talent is out of this world. Never leave me.
And my dearest friend my monster @thejennlyon , who talked me into doing this show and made it sound like a good idea. I hate it when she is right.
I should probably stop doubting you, but I won’t.
So proud of this one.
I love this cast. I love this show. I love New York.
NBC tonight
Peacock tomorrow
Attn: on camera talent. Go to @benny_shields and get the sleeve you’ve been putting off. I got you.
Honored to be part of this conversation in Film Stories UK xoxo
I finally became an American citizen today after 30 years which makes it my longest relationship. We fight sometimes but it’s true love, so we made it official anyway❤️🇺🇸
