to the neck it s like a hood piece that goes over his head. he did the tests on oldman himself. everything like real skin, including a prosthetic adam s apple. in all he designed six pieces, including cheeks, nose, and chin. kazu left the meticulous daily application to british colleagues. the process took them more than three hours every day, for 48 consecutive shooting days. kazu made a series of wigs from baby hair and angora rabbit fur. the great thing about gary is, like, he just disappears. after ten minutes, i start to forget about the makeup and start to forget about the gary, because it s just became churchill. and that s really rare. nick glass for cnn, with kazu tsuji. remarkable. thank you for watching. i m natalie allen. our top stories, right after this.
so not buttering it up. kazu, as he s known, created the makeup for jim carrey in how the grinch stole christmas, and for brad pitt in the curious case of benjamin button. but in 2012, he decided to leave the industry. i love to do special effects makeup, but, it was stressing me too much to the level that i felt like i m shortening my life. so gary oldman had to coax kazu back just for this one movie. i never had opportunity to do historical character in a film, like a main character, with the makeup, and i felt like, okay, well this could be once in a lifetime. under the liquid resin, gary oldman with a shaven head, this process gave kazu the mold for life cast and from that he began to design the prosthetics.