Raine In Prison

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Behind film strip Bars.
Raine in Prison…

Towards the end of 2008 I worked a TV series Called “ The Prisoner”
-a 60’s British TV series, with a huge cult following…
NOW… the Americans have remade it. There are no names just numbers,
& everything that happens is in the mind of a dreamer.
So that’s a really short description, let me tell U what it was like as a make-up artist from MY point of view.

The Shooting started in Namibia a great place to go for a “Short time”
With that in mind, there were of course delays!! This meant staying longer in that sand pit- if u could have seen my face, eyes rolling.
*#!%#%** Great !!! a whole month! (In the movie world that's really long.)
In the Mica (beautiful sparkly stuff u see in the sand) infested sands of Swakopmond, which by the way can give non-local’s chest infections.
Clearly I’m not a sand person?

Don’t get me wrong, the Desert is Mysterious, beautiful, aw inspiring & unforgiving. This was my Prison!
The work day’s are long, from freezing cold to boiling hot & sometimes U are shooting out in the desert.
U miss breakfast, The Base camp toilet is miles away & they have run out of honey, there’s no shade, u get caught in a sand storm & they’re chasing the sun… down a mountain.
Then there’s on set Politics, not something I enjoy, but for some (world wide) reason the Make-up Dept is sometimes targeted. Maybe because we’re all very strong independent woman surrounded by ego driven insecure men.( not all of them)
Everyday there was a new drama!!! ( Boring)
For eg: If the lead Actor ( no names mentioned) decides to have a chat & drag his feet getting to set or have some big issue about something really small… The Make-up Artist is blamed… even though we have arrived on set already??
It was Make-up’s fault they lost the day… It became the running joke
The weather turned its Make-up fault, the bus broke down it’s make-up- having mechanical knowledge they sabotaged the bus & so on…this carried on for most of the movie…
Point they never finished the day!

Hayley Atwell Sir Ian McKellen Lenny James

My Artist’s were all great Lenny James, what an absolute pleasure to work with, Sir Ian McKellen a professional Make-up & Artist relationship,
Hayley Atwell wonderful & funny & our Jamie was very entertaining.

We finally came home to Cape town, YAY!!
Only to be imprisoned in a Studio!!! The last day of shooting we couldn't wait to crack the Champagne & disappear… We got our get out of jail free card..
I do have fond memories & there were definitely times I enjoyed
BUT the drive Home “The BIG sigh” Thank God its over, Out of Prison
Run, Run & don’t look Back…

TIP: for make-up Artist’s who find themselves in Prison… Suck it up,
it’ll END, it always does…

I LOVE MY JOB sometimes…
By Raine Edwards

Working with the LEGENDARY CLINT EASTWOOD

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It was an honour to work with 1 of the legendary actor/directors of our time, Clint Eastwood on his latest film "Invictus."


In March this year I worked on an inspirational South African tale about Mandela (played by Morgan Freeman) & Francois Pienaar (played by Matt Damon) leading up to the Rugby World Cup in 1995. The film is based on the novel "Playing the enemy" written by John Carlin.


Clint Eastwood has an amazingly friendly & calm nature, surprisingly unlike the characters we knew him for (from the Wild West or the Dirty Harry days).
His calming, professional energy is most definitely felt on his sets by the crew & actors alike. He knows exactly how he wants a scene to be filmed, every angle & camera move necessary. There's no messing or fussing around, & due to this the shooting day starts at 10am & is done by 6pm (unheard of in our industry.)

On an Eastwood set there's absolutely no shouting allowed, even by the AD's (assistant directors) who normally call out "Rolling" & "Cut" so that the crew know when a "take" his over.
Instead this was replaced by a 'circling hand in the air' & whispers into the radio.

Most directors call "ACTION" & "CUT" for the actors, but not Clint Eastwood, he has this amazing way of telling the actors to start when they are ready & simply says "stop" when he's happy. These changes are due to his many years on Western movies where the horses knew the word "ACTION" & the moment it was said, "off they went" leaving no-one in frame to be filmed.
Funny but True!

It was an absolute pleasure to work in the presence of such greatness & I left feeling the utmost respect for such an amazing man/director & film maker, Clint Eastwood.

By Simone Stubbs
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