Christopher Tucker on creating The Elephant Man
Prosthetic make-up artist Christopher Tucker talks about creating the make-up effects for David Lynch’s The Elephant Man.
Prosthetic make-up artist Christopher Tucker talks about creating the make-up effects for David Lynch’s The Elephant Man. After Lynch’s own unsuccessful efforts to recreate John Merrick’s terrible deformities, Tucker was brought in to create the effects for John Hurt’s transformation, a complex arrangement of prosthetics that had to be applied in 15 separate sections.
