Star Wars Galaxies: Nikki Gooley: Making Memorable Faces

Nikki Gooley has worked as a makeup artist and hair designer in films such as The Matrix, Peter Pan and Queen of the Damned. For Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Gooley and her team guided the looks of Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman. Gooley has this to say about being a makeup artist:

"If they want to start filming at 7:30 in the morning it might take an actor hours, not just with makeup, but they have to get dressed, and fed, and rehearse and everything. Often we're there from like 5:00 in the morning through until after the filming's finished. We have to clean everybody up and put everything away and then set up for the next day. We work maybe 14, sometimes 16 hours a day, five days a week. And if you're on location, it can be six days a week."

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