Oscar winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran discusses her longstanding collaboration with Mike Leigh and her approach to designing period costumes for hundreds of characters in Peterloo.
Department Heads
Costume designers, sound designers, and production designers discuss their artistic choices and explain their collaborative methods.
Jon Gregory Interview: Editing a Mike Leigh film
Jon Gregory discusses the challenge of editing battle scenes in Peterloo and what he has learned from decades of working with Mike Leigh.
Production designer Suzie Davies on Mike Leigh and ‘actors surgeries’
Production designer Suzie Davies discusses how her production design plays into Mike Leigh’s rehearsal process with what she calls ‘actors surgeries.’
Interview: On Chesil Beach‘s sets destabilize its characters
On Chesil Beach production designer Suzie Davies discusses researching period, creating environments that contrast with the film’s characters, and how different her process is when working with Mike Leigh. Read the rest of our On Chesil Beach Special Issue here.
Interview: On Chesil Beach avoids cliched period costumes
Costume designer Keith Madden discusses working with the script and the actors to design the costumes for On Chesil Beach, his collaboration with production designer Suzie Davis, and how the clothing of the characters can help make period-specific concerns more palatable to modern audiences. This is the fifth article in our Special Issue on On Chesil […]
Interview: Colour reveals character in LOP‘s set design
Lean on Pete production designer Ryan Warren Smith discusses how he created rich, detailed environments that subtly reveal character. This is the third feature in our Special Issue on Lean on Pete.