The reality show Face Off is back on SyFy, Tuesday nights at 9pm ET. Judge and Head of the Make-up Department on all of The Hunger Games films, Ve Neill, spoke to Entertainment Weekly from the Atlanta set of Mockingjay all about the sixth season of the show. The make-up legend was also quick to talk about how things were going on the third and fourth installments of the franchise:
How well do you get to know the contestants over the course of a season? Have you stayed in contact with any of the former contestants?
We don’t get to know everybody, [but] because I work and I hire people a lot, I have hired many of the past contestants. I hired Laura [Tyler], our last winner, to work with me on Catching Fire. And I actually have Conor [McCullagh], our first winner, with me as my key makeup artist on the next two [Hunger Games] films right now. I hire a lot of the contestants who’ve been on the show and I know a couple of them.What’s next in the Hunger Games movies and how do you help tell the story through makeup?
We’re going into the third book, which is when they go to war. We have a lot of distressed looking makeups as opposed to glamour.How big is the part of the Hunger Games makeup department that you oversee?
We have three makeup artists who are on all the time and we have one make-up artist who runs our tech unit, who works with us concurrently doing interior and pickup shots. She sometimes has fifteen people working with her. Right now we’re doing stuff in District 13, so we have 20 extra makeup artists, and there are even more people in the hair department. We have a lot manpower because there are over 400 extras.What’s it like working with the stars of the movie?
They’re all wonderful to work with. They all have children… well Josh and Jennifer don’t, but a lot of our other adult principals have children and, of course, their kids are all really happy that their parents are working on the Hunger Games, so that’s fun for them. We have a terrific director and we don’t work hellacious hours. No 19-hour shoot days. They try to keep it to 12 hours so that everybody stays relatively healthy and rested.
If you missed the first episode of the new series of Face Off last night, you can watch it here. Thanks to Victoria for the jabberjay message!
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