Mary Zophres - Costume Designer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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EPISODE 80 - MARY ZOPHRES - Costume Designer

Team Deakins sits down with Costume Designer, Mary Zophres (FIRST MAN, LA LA LAND, TRUE GRIT). She shares how she works with actors, large amounts of extras, the production designer, and the DP. She describes the thrill of seeing the actor become the character in the fitting room. Camera tests are important since “your eye tells you different things than the lens does” and she tells some of the things she has discovered through camera tests. She also describes dressing Jeff Bridges on The Big Lebowski, researching First Man and her experience on La La Land. We learn a lot about how the costumes can add so much to the storytelling.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deacons podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:12.2	James Deacons often joined in the conversation
0:15.3	by a guest. It's very informal and we never know where it will go. We're connecting through
0:21.8	Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the audio.
0:25.0	If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing pod,
0:31.0	POD at Roger Deacons.com.
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0:39.6	please email us at Pod POD at Roger Degans.com.
0:47.0	Today we're very pleased to have with us a costume designer with whom we've worked often.
0:52.0	If you've seen any Cohen Brothers movie from Fargo on, you've
0:54.9	seen her work. Among her other credits are the Terminal, Catch Me If You Can, First Man, and
1:01.6	Intersteller. We're pleased to welcome Mary Zoffries with us today.
1:06.0	Thank you, Mary, for doing this.
1:08.0	Thank you for having me.
1:10.0	It's an honor to be here. I think I said that in the email to you that it's an honor to be asked really.
1:15.6	Thank you.
1:16.6	Thanks. We want to start with our usual question, which is, how did you get to where you are now?
1:22.3	Is this something you always knew you wanted to do or did you take another path first?
1:26.0	What is your story? I definitely took another path first. I
1:32.0	Had no idea that not only did I I did not know that the costume design profession
1:38.0	existed I didn't even know you could work on a film and it took me quite a while to figure that out. And I'm not sure why, because as a kid, I loved movies. My mother was a big fan of film and we would go to the movie all the time and I went to college I still really had no clue I had friends that were film. I still didn't really have an idea.
2:05.0	Until I ended up, it's kind of a long story, but I took a film class finally in my senior year of college.
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