Blair on Hellboy Costumes
Blair on Hellboy Costumes
Firestarter and the wardrobe dilemma
Source: Sci Fi Wire
Blair Gets Hellboy Input
Selma Blair, who will play Firestarter in the upcoming film version of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy comic series, told SCI FI Wire that she was put in charge of creative decisions for her character. That includes helping design her wardrobe. “That’s something I’ll have to work on as I go, just simple things like going back and forth deciding my wardrobe eight different times, like what I want her to be,” Blair said in an interview.
Blair added, “Is she going to be a regular girl that’s struggling? Is she wearing someone else’s wardrobe? Little things are getting me stumped, because it is really strange having the say-so, to have the lead role when I can create this girl. I don’t have to go by someone else’s boundaries of how to protect our leading girl or something. So it is pretty amazing that I can flip around in my head a million ways [issues such as] where do I want her clothes to come from? She’s in a mental hospital. Am I going to steal them? Am I going to sew them? Am I going to buy them at the first store I go into? I have so many choices.”
Blair said that she has been studying the Hellboy comics to do her best for director Guillermo del Toro. “When I first was offered this part, I immediately did my research,” she said. “I would do anything for Guillermo. He has a vision, and he wrote this and directed this, and he’s very careful about who he’s casting. And I really consider him an artist, and … something I want to do now is really be careful about the directors I’m working with. It’s time to raise the stakes.”
After playing the dumped girl in several romantic comedies, Blair was also excited to get the female lead in a movie. “I get the guy in the end,” she said. “Do I ever!” Hellboy begins production in the spring of 2003 for a summer 2004 release.
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