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00:09Lisa Westcott's great achievement, I think, was the journey of Jean Bajon.
00:14And somehow she manages to pull off this extraordinary journey for Hugh...
00:18...where you really feel that he's lived a very long and tiring life.
00:23The first time we see him, he's a convict and in a very bad state.
00:27His head's been scarred for many years, so it's just been hacked off by jailers.
00:31He's got this very long straggly beard, which we extended.
00:35We just made him very, very decrepit and tired and filthy.
00:39Contact lenses made to make him look very sore in the eyes.
00:45And then we had some teeth made, some slips that went over his own teeth.
00:49Very, very thin, they just clipped in.
00:51Tom was so, so worried about teeth, and quite rightly...
00:56...because, you know, you've got a big close-up on an artist...
00:59...and they're holding a note, and you're seeing right into their mouth.
01:09I dreamed a dream and time gone by
01:16And hope was high and life worth living
01:21How can you make a beautiful woman not look beautiful?
01:24It's kind of tricky, isn't it?
01:25Annie Hathaway had the idea that she wanted to get her hair cut for real...
01:28...in the lovely ladies scene, which I was amazed at.
01:31And we even tried to talk her out of it.
01:33So there's Anne with her hair now cut or chopped off.
01:36When she first becomes a prostitute, looking very sad and tragic...
01:40...we had to somehow get rid of her teeth.
01:41A lot of people had to wear plastic molds on top of their teeth that had been painted.
01:45I was one of the lucky ones. I didn't have to wear it.
01:47I was just able to paint my own teeth.
01:48It did look great on camera. It looked like a bloody mess.
01:53My template really for the halls was a very, very crude makeup that's been on for a long time.
01:58You know, that kind of really kind of all running into each other, you know, that really smearing.
02:02I said to the girls, just go for that kind of look.
02:11So it's really, really lumpy and bumpy and it's got to really tell the story.
02:15It's got to be brutal.
02:17Everybody raise your glass!
02:19Raise out the box!
02:21It's out!
02:21The tenardier is a kind of a bit of a light spot, a bit of comedy relief, really.
02:24So we have a bit of fun with them.
02:26They're basically con artists.
02:28And every time you see them in every situation through the years, through the story, they look different.
02:34In a different disguise.
02:35Sasha really fancied having a gold tooth.
02:38So we ended up, the final configuration of his gold tooth was this little fella and really earned its living.
02:45This wig has got black roots and it's all been, had different colors of blonde in it and been dipped
02:51in tea and coffee and all sorts of stuff like that to give it some kind of brassiness and lots
02:57of character.
02:57The children together, they just looked divine.
03:01The question you have to ask yourself, or I have to ask myself, which I do continually, and it's just
03:06very, very simple.
03:07It's, can you believe it?
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