The Hollywood Reporter

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Fur Is Filmmaking’s New Smoking • Increasingly, creatives are pushing back on using exotic skins as a shorthand for luxury. Where does the trend go?

THE SNUB I CAN’T GET PAST • Peter Sarsgaard: Tom Courtenay in The Dresser losing best actor to Robert Duvall in 1984’s Tender Mercies

From Russia, With Love • Yura Borisov, who plays the lovable henchman Igor in Sean Baker’s Anora, talks about the role written just for him and what it was like shooting the 28-minute home-invasion scene

The Eye Is in the Beholder • What it was like to edit RaMell Ross’ feature Nickel Boys, in which we literally see the action from the lead characters’ point of view

‘Angelina Jolie Is the Jewel. It Was My Job to Design the Jewel Box’ • Maria, the third collaboration between Pablo Larraín and production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas, required immense amounts of detail to re-create the lavish life of Maria Callas. Some 4,000 garments adorned the dressing room set, her apartment was styled in earthy colors as well as royal blues and vivid oranges, and Dyas hand-painted a headboard to look exactly like the renowned opera singer’s iconic bed

‘ANIMATION IS THE MOST TIMELESS KIND OF STORYTELLING’ • SIX DIRECTORS BEHIND SOME OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED ANIMATED FILMS OF THE YEAR DISCUSS WHY THEY FELL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES, THE THREAT OF AI AND HOW EVEN CARTOONS ‘CAN EXPRESS GREAT TRUTHS’

WHEN CHARACTER IS A SPECIAL EFFECT • From Better Man to A Different Man, filmmakers this season are using cinema alchemy for an unusual purpose: to illuminate anxieties and the pain of transformation

THE WIZARDRY BEHIND WICKED’S WILD COSTUMES • Paul Tazewell tells all on the looks of Glinda, Elphaba and the rest of the Oz-ian cast

TECHNO AND TENNIS: TRENT REZNOR’S SUBVERSIVE MATCH • The Nine Inch Nails frontman and his creative partner, Atticus Ross, on their unexpected film-score period. Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers is their latest

THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE • Conclave’s Ben Baird reveals the key to capturing sound from one of the most secretive places on the planet: the Vatican

HOW DO YOU MAKE DONALD TRUMP’S SKIN ORANGE? VERY CAREFULLY • Wigs, prosthetic lifts and spray-tanning booths: The hair and makeup teams on The Apprentice detail how they transformed Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong into Trump and Roy Cohn

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