Emmy Award winner Doniella Davy served as the makeup department head on Barry Jenkins‘ 10-episode limited series “The Underground Railroad,” which is based on Colson Whitehead‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The series marks the third collaboration between Jenkins and Davy, who previously worked on the former’s past two feature films, “Moonlight” (2016) and “If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018). In our exclusive video interview (watch the chat above), Davy talks me through the importance of depicting the “emotional realism” of the characters, the reflection of Cora’s (Thuso Mbedu) harrowing journey in the makeup, and the reason behind her Emmy episode submission.
The story is centered on Cora, an enslaved girl who makes a bid for freedom from slave-holding Georgia in 19th-century southeastern United States and, in turn, takes possession of her personhood. Even though the story is set in the 1850s, it isn’t specific to...
The story is centered on Cora, an enslaved girl who makes a bid for freedom from slave-holding Georgia in 19th-century southeastern United States and, in turn, takes possession of her personhood. Even though the story is set in the 1850s, it isn’t specific to...
- 6/21/2021
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
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