We had earlier reported about notable prosthetics designer Shaune Harrison, who has worked on films like Harry Potter, Captain America as well as numerous characters for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, onboarding Tumbbad 2. The prosthetics designer recently spoke about the meticulous process behind one primary character in the much-anticipated sequel.
Revealing how the character undergoes three distinct physical transformations created through complex prosthetic work, Harrison talked about the visual continuity process followed by the team. He said, “There is one main character, for which we go through three different looks - and they're quite extensive. The interesting part is we'll have double makeups as well, because we make sure you'll have a stunt double and the acting double. So you have to make multiples of makeups because whenever you do a makeup on an actor, it's only ever used once. So if the actor's in it for 30 days, we have to make 30 exact pieces. But you have all the moulds. So as you can see moulds around here, we inject silicone into the moulds. You produce the same thing over and over and over again. So fingers crossed the audience don't realise that it's a completely different time. We shot it, but it looks exactly the same. And for us, we always love doing new things.”
Further emphasising on the preparation and testing of the prosthetic work, to ensure it does not slow down the filming process, Shaune said, “You know, every script comes in, you read and you go,' okay, we can do this three different ways,' and you always try and do it the way that is going to be the most easiest on set. You don't want to hold up the crew, the director and the producer, so you always want to make sure things run smoothly. So whenever you're doing tests and stuff, that's what you sort out beforehand. If it doesn't work, we'll rechange it.”
Tumbbad 2 is spearheaded by actor-producer Sohum Shah under Sohum Shah Films in collaboration with Pen Studios, and led by veteran producer Dr. Jayantilal Gada. The makers recently announced Nawazuddin Siddiqui's onboarding for the sequel.
