To paraphrase Hillary, it took a village of collaborators to transform Clive into Bill. danreilly11 reports
Clive Owen spent an hour and 45 minutes in hair and makeup every day before shooting his scenes as President Bill Clinton in Impeachment: American Crime Story. Photo-Illustration: Vulture.
As viewers of the show can attest, it’s easy to forget it’s Owen playing Clinton. That’s due to a number of factors: the writing, the actor’s intense preparation, the hair and makeup, and the filming of the show itself. To paraphrase Hillary, it took a village of collaborators to transform Clive into Bill, and Vulture spoke to Owen, Simpson, and five members of Impeachment’s behind-the-scenes team to learn how it all went down.
“Obviously, because of TV, you’re never going to show everything, but I was very concerned when it was too abbreviated or neat because people searching for things is where the real drama is,” Owen adds. “Ultimately, you try to make it as believable as you can.” One particular peccadillo Buster and Owen worked through was a higher-pitched rasp that would occasionally appear when Clinton was tense. “There’s a thinness to his voice,” says Buster. “I read that he had acid reflux, so his vocal cords were constantly being burned, but also, he talks so much — just vocal fatigue. So we listened to that and found the placement of where it lives. Even though he’s a big man, there was not a lot of body resonance in his voice.
Raleigh began by taking a life-cast scan of Owen. Using Photoshop, he overlaid that image with one of Clinton to identify what needed to be changed. “Obviously we can’t take anything away, so we’re limited to what we can augment,” says Raleigh. “With Clinton, the big elements were really the forehead — Clive has very big, full, bushy eyebrows, where Clinton had very, very thin brows — and then, obviously, Bill Clinton has a very distinct bulbous nose shape as well.
To put the wig on, Mazzarese-Allison would slick Owen’s hair down with a strong gel, airbrush white makeup around his hairline, and attach the lace-based wig with adhesive and toupee clips. At the end of the shooting day, she’d gently remove and clean it with alcohol then style it again in the morning with sprays of Evian water, mousse, and a blow-dryer.
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