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I never planned to work in cinema, she said.
It didnt happen immediately.
I created a clothing line that went international.
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About five years later, he said it again.
I thought okay, Ive done the clothing business.
I have that down, maybe I should make a run at learn to do something else.
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I had so much fun doing this.
It started like that and never stopped.
Blood didnt work, it turned black on the suit, cows blood we tried that.
But it was labor intensive, said West.
When Geoffrey saw it, he started to cry.
We were filming in Luton Hoo outside of London.
He put it on one night and just walk all over the grounds.
He is very fluid, he became the marquis.
It was so beautiful.
For the trappers, there was really nothing.
You just have to be a reader.
ForThe New World, I read all of John Smiths journals, she said.
We came up with the term black wax, she recalled.
I was driving to set on a movie, It was like five in the morning.
I couldnt believe it because those clothes were so dirty and so foul.
Alejandro wanted them to get really smelly so that they would really feel like trappers, she recalled.
I thought those clothes will never get noticed.
To give Alejandro the level of realism, he was looking for, I had to do that.
West also talked about the process behind obtaining the bearskin worn by Leonardo DiCaprio.
The bear skins were a whole other deal.
They were extremely, extremely expensive, she said.
They were bought from the parks department.
They have an allotment.
They only cull two of the oldest bears, which they think will not make it, a season.
I had to become a fur trader and take out a fur trading licence.
Fortunately, its very, very governed.
I said, I dont do sci-fi.
Its not my thing.
He was so compelling.
He said, I want you because I do not want it to look like sci-fi.
I want it to be classical.
I dont want it to look like a video game.
Some people dont trust that encyclopaedia but its pretty well documented, she said.
We were shooting out in the Californian desert, east of Bakersfield, a pick-up shot with Zendaya.
Its the first time you dont see her in a stillsuit.
No, she never wears a dress in the script, she explained.
