Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed Page #2
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- 1999
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When I finally saw pictures of Rameses,
I found he was kinda different-looking.
It wasn't quite the same effect.
I think, actually, putting the make-up on
for The Mummy and taking it off
took longer than
the make-up for Frankenstein.
I only know what I've read,
and I read something about, I think,
eight hours to do the mummy.
Which I can believe - especially since
Pierce had to wrap his body as well.
Back in those days they only had spirit
gum, cotton, collodion, stuff like that,
but something we even do today
is called an old-age stipple,
where you actually stretch
the person's skin.
And I'm sure what he did
is paint a layer of spirit gum on Karloff,
stick some cotton on - and I understand
he used Egyptian cotton,
I think just because it was finer cotton -
glued that on, painted over it with either
more spirit gum or collodion, and dried it.
Then, once it was dry, he released it
and it would form these wrinkles.
And I'm sure he did many layers.
Where it didn't form enough
he'd add a bit more and build it up.
Very tedious, time-consuming,
very painful, I'm sure, for Boris.
I still can't believe... Having this collodion
he must have teared up
through this whole process.
Had to hold his breath as well, I'm sure.
Fortunately, he didn't have
to wear the bandages as lmhotep
except for a very brief
period of time on camera.
But it was really excruciatingly painful
to take that make-up off.
I know that they spent hours and hours
and hours putting it on for the first day.
My understanding was
Pierce didn't even consider the fact
that Boris might have to relieve himself
some time during the day,
and that became a bit of a problem.
And when they completed it, he said
"You've done a wonderful job,
but you've forgotten to give me a fly."
For the exotic dual role
of Princess Anck-es-en-Amon
and her modern-day counterpart,
Universal cast the Hungarian-born
New York stage actress Zita Johann.
Zita Johann had been a powerhouse
Broadway dramatic actress of the 1920s.
She had played in Machinal,
in which she played a murderess who
goes screaming to the electric chair.
Terrific dramatic actress. She believed in
what she called "the theatre of the spirit".
She sat in her dressing room
before performing, said her prayers,
"died unto herself", as she put it,
and became her character.
And life for something else
inside me that isn't me.
But it's alive too, and fghting for life.
Save me from it, Frank. Save me.
With this almost sacred
approach to acting,
at the same time she had a very
enormous disrespect for Hollywood.
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