00:00What was my character called in Iron Claw?
00:02Sorry, I'm a goldfish, I can't remember anything.
00:05There's a fly, sorry.
00:07Hi, who, what, where, I'm Lily James
00:09and this is Behind the Looks.
00:15So this is from Mamma Mia.
00:18We spent a long time trying to get the perfect dungarees.
00:21This was the moment where,
00:22and this is a sentence I never thought I'd say,
00:24where I sort of really embody Meryl Streep.
00:29I was playing the younger version of Donna,
00:32so sort of as a prequel to Mamma Mia,
00:35and Meryl is just so iconic,
00:38and those dungarees and how she moves
00:40and her physicality was just exquisite,
00:43and I spent so long studying her.
00:45So when I finally put the dungarees on,
00:48there's a scene where she sort of finds them
00:51in this stool in a Greek market,
00:52and it's sort of like the moment where I felt like,
00:55okay, I'm really Donna Sheridan.
00:57And it was just the most fun I've ever had in my life.
01:00So here we have the Canadian tuxedo.
01:04The double denim.
01:05Yeah, those jeans were pretty tight.
01:08There was quite a lot of sort of panicking
01:11that I would rip the jeans
01:13as I did a hiking or something.
01:15It's really fun when you get to be so playful
01:17and the costumes really kind of inform the character,
01:21the movement, the dancing.
01:23Yeah, this was pretty great.
01:26Oh, Cinderella.
01:28I think as time has passed, it's been ten years now,
01:32I'm able to sort of look back on it with such wonder.
01:36I just feel so immensely proud and so, so lucky.
01:40What was wild was that, firstly,
01:42I wore a version of it in the camera test, which is crazy.
01:46So I was already in this gown, and thank God I got it,
01:51because to give you a taste of wearing that dress
01:54and then not, you know, rip it away,
01:56is sort of, would have been agony.
01:58But the dress was made, I think it was like 14 layers
02:02of this gossamer kind of silk, all in different shades of blue.
02:05As I moved, it was like water,
02:08and there was always like a wind machine on me
02:09everywhere I went, so the layers of the dress would sort of,
02:14it was sort of meant to feel like the ocean.
02:15And then it was so wonderful to have this contrast
02:18with this very simple, classic kind of look
02:22that felt very true to the classic kind of fairy tale.
02:26I had to be able to like jump on a horse bareback
02:28and ride in that dress.
02:30And so, yeah, that was a very special experience.
02:35Baby drama.
02:37So I played Deborah, and that is my waitress diner
02:43kind of classic all-American outfit.
02:46I wear that outfit pretty much the whole film.
02:50I think maybe there's one other yellow dress on like a date night
02:52that we go on.
02:53But, oh, because I wore it the whole way through,
02:56and there was quite a lot of like running and action,
02:58I'd have different lengths of the skirt
03:00to kind of protect my modesty.
03:08Wow.
03:08That again, I'm like, well, did that really happen?
03:11That's Pamela Anderson in the red iconic bathing suit.
03:17My God, that was a scary day.
03:18I tried about 50 different swimsuits on of like different cuts.
03:23Like, Cammie, our designer, is out of this world.
03:27Her attention to detail and how she went back and pulled all these
03:30like real pieces from like, you know, from the time.
03:33And like, it felt so real and authentic.
03:37I was just really trying to stay in character
03:40and then really just aware of all these...
03:42That's the magic.
03:43Oh, this is just a complete recreation of a suit
03:47that Pamela Anderson really did wear when she was going to court
03:50and sort of like fighting for her rights to the privacy
03:55and to the ownership of her own tape that was stolen from her.
03:58There was such beauty and softness in the color of that suit
04:03and like being who she is, but there was a toughness.
04:07And we just wanted to recreate that look really faithfully.
04:11Okay.
04:11Wow. So this is, this is Ironclaw with Zac Efron.
04:18I, I would never get married in this dress.
04:21I've been married so many times in movies now.
04:24What was my character called in Ironclaw?
04:27Sorry, I'm a goldfish. I can't remember anything.
04:29I don't remember anyone's name.
04:32Pam and Kevin.
04:35Oh my God, what is wrong with me?
04:37I need to go on holiday. I just got off holiday.
04:39This dress I loved because it felt very perfect for the character.
04:44It's sort of like that 80s puffy sleeves and that satin kind of material.
04:51The best thing about this costume was that I had cowboy boots underneath,
04:55which is a huge buy.
04:56I remember a moment before I walked on set with my sort of like ginger hair,
05:00like piled on top of my head.
05:02And I sort of thought I've never looked worse, but I'm about to get married.
05:07But it was, it was really, really spot on for the character.
05:10And I, it was an epic, an epic costume.
05:13Okay. This is Finnellamante l'Alba.
05:15The costumes in this were so exquisite.
05:17This is a Egyptian kind of movie segment of the film,
05:23which is sort of like set in 1950s Italy, like La Dolce Vita.
05:27But this is like a film within a film.
05:29I was painted gold.
05:31The outfit was kind of all handmade with different gems.
05:35And we shot it in a Cinecetta in the most iconic Italian studios.
05:39We recreated what those sets would have been like with like hundreds of extras.
05:43It was a very kind of surreal and epic moment.
05:47We were trying to capture like old cinema.
05:49In fact, this feels quite sort of old school Hollywood right now.
05:52This was a beautiful silk green dress that was made to measure.
05:57And for me, I like to really accentuate my body and kind of my curves and my femininity.
06:03So I spent sort of a month in that dress and it was exquisite.
06:08I really loved it.
06:12And this is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
06:16Wow. God, such a blast from the past.
06:19And basically it was just all about sort of corsets, heaving breasts.
06:24It was really, really beautifully designed so that we felt like we had these pretty sort of
06:31Austenesque costumes.
06:33And then there was a military feel and something tougher because these girls were kind of complete warriors.
06:38I still can't quite wrap my head around Pride, Prejudice and Zombies, but the book is amazing.
06:43There was something rebellious and anarchic about it that I really enjoyed.
06:49Okay, yeah, this is my character Kate from Relay.
06:53Honestly, the brief with this was sort of make her disappear.
06:58There's nothing extraordinary about her.
07:00She's at a very painful, chaotic moment in her life where she's under huge pressure and duress
07:06and she's hiding and she's escaping.
07:09So she doesn't want to be seen.
07:11So this woman is really trying to fade into the background.
07:13But even that takes a long time to sort of curate what that look is and how it can still
07:18be sort of
07:18visually interesting so that, you know, people are drawn into this character.
07:22There's a delicate dance throughout this film.
07:25Nothing is really what it seems.
07:26This is Swiped.
07:28This is my new movie coming out in September.
07:30I play Whitney Wolf-Hurd, who is a formidable entrepreneur.
07:36She was the youngest woman to take a company public, the youngest self-made billionaire.
07:41We had a lot of fun.
07:42Beth Morgan, our costume designer.
07:44Again, I just feel so lucky to have worked with these real artists.
07:48And we had a really incredible female team, female-centric team on this movie,
07:53which was pretty apt given what we were exploring.
07:55And again, we just had so much fun pulling these looks, these 2000s looks.
08:01So a lot of yellow, a lot of bumble yellow.
08:03We meet her at the beginning of the movie when she's sort of just come out of college
08:06and is figuring out what the hell she's going to do in the world.
08:09And then we see this growth of her becoming into this powerhouse of this woman.
08:13We really wanted her clothes to follow that kind of emotional journey.
