Believe the hype. “Wicker,” now in theaters, is every bit as horny, romantic and wonderful as the trailer leads you to believe.
\n\nOlivia Colman plays a spinster fisherwoman in a medieval community where marriage is what gives a woman worth. Although she is a fierce independent woman, the village mocks her as she goes about making her living. One day she goes to the local basket weaver, played by Peter Dinklage, and asks him to make her a wicker husband.
\n\nEnter Alexander Skarsgård — yes, that is him under all that makeup — wearing a practical suit and prosthetic makeup to transform him into a basket man.
\n\nIt began with Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, who were adapting Ursula Wills’ short story “The Wicker Husband.” Weta Workshop artists, prosthetic makeup designer Joe Dunckley and lead makeup FX artist Sarah Rubano received the script and a call from the writers and directors who told them, “We want to make this practically,” says Dunckley. “They wanted a piece of beautiful concept art that showed their vision.”
\n\nThe pair spent 18 months in research and development alone. Because prosthetic makeup materials are manufactured to imitate human flesh and skin, it posed a…
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