MARK BRIDGES - Costume Designer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 118 - Mark Bridges - Costume Designer

In his podcast debut, costume designer Mark Bridges (THE FABELMANS, JOKER, PHANTOM THREAD) speaks with us on this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. Mark was once a costume assistant on BARTON FINK and HUDSUCKER PROXY alongside Mary Zophres (Season 1, Episode 80), and he shares how he made the jump to being a costume designer in his own right after meeting director Paul Thomas Anderson to work on his debut feature, HARD EIGHT. Throughout the episode, we discuss Mark’s approach to his work, and he shares how he builds out a character’s closet through diligent research and frequent testing. We also discuss how Mark communicates with the hair and makeup department, and he describes the types of conversations he has with the actors embodying a film’s characters. Later, Mark discusses how he designs costumes in black-and-white, and he reflects on the extra legwork done to get ahead of any potential problems while shooting on location. And, while sharing advice at the end of the episode, Mark cautions young designers against making it about the money.

This episode is sponsored by Aputure

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Season 2 of the Team Deacons podcast,
0:07.0	a collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.0	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:19.0	This episode is sponsored by Aperture. listen in and see where it goes.
0:28.8	This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a premier manufacturer of LED lighting with the industry's greatest variety of fixtures for your complete lighting needs.
0:33.8	Aperture recently announced the new storm family of lights.
0:38.0	With LED white light quality that matches natural daylight and classic tungsten bulbs,
0:43.7	plus extreme low-end dimming while maintaining color quality.
0:48.4	Discover more about the new storm lights and the complete Aperture lighting ecosystem at Aperture.com.
0:59.0	Today we're speaking with the costume designer.
1:02.1	His credits are many and include Maestro, the Fableman's, Liquorish Pizza, and Joker.
1:08.3	We're pleased to welcome Mark Bridges today. Mark, thank you for doing this.
1:12.6	Hi, thank you for having me.
1:15.6	We'd love to start with our first question, which is, how did you get to where you are today?
1:21.6	Did you know from a kid you wanted to do this, were you like a good dresser as a kid?
1:26.6	Or did you go down another route and then
1:28.9	find this and regret it after? No.
1:33.1	You know, I do think it was in the cards for me. And it's funny, costume design is a combination
1:42.3	of all the things that I just naturally am gravitated to, things like
1:47.8	fabric and drawing and films and history and everything all put into one job.
2:01.2	How fortunate I feel to have landed someplace
2:07.2	where I love going to work, love the challenges,
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