Alice Babbidge is the Australian designer taking on Hollywood
Babbidge accepted the challenge of designing costumes for Boo is afraid, which moves across genres, settings and moods. “We thought: Let’s be bold, but let’s be grounded in humanity,” she says. “It was about defining and detailing each person who was in front of the camera. It was really exciting to be able to do that and discover who all these people were around Beau.”
She was not afraid of the task: “I was working from a place of fear of getting the task done and of being good. I still get anxious, but now it’s more about excitement about the challenges.
Babbidge was shooting Boo is afraid In Canada when Australian director Garth Davis contacted her to work on it enemy.
It tells the story of Hen (Saoirse Ronan, Ladybug) and Junior (Paul Mescal, After the sun), a couple living on a barren farmland in a future America that is on the verge of ecological collapse. Their lives are turned upside down when Junior is recruited to go into space for two years and the government organizes to replace him at home with an artificial intelligence replica.
Irish actress Saoirse Ronan stars in Australian director Garth Davis’s film Foe.credit: moving in
Phoenix, who worked with Davis in 2018 Mary Magdalenecomplimented Babidge on the director, and reading the script sealed the deal.
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“I like to understand the period I’m working in, but find a way for a contemporary audience to understand it easily,” she explains. “It was interesting for me to think about something that faces the future.”
And it didn’t hurt that she was working with two of today’s most popular young actors, Mescal and Ronan. “They were great actors to collaborate with,” she says.
Babbidge creates the costumes in conversation with actors, directors and crew. You then create a complete wardrobe for each character, down to underwear and socks. “You know how they start their day and how they end their day,” she says. “Whether you need the film or not, you have it, so you can draw on all the elements of that person’s life.
“It’s not about wearing a costume. It’s about someone having clothes.”
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