"You always have to be aware and have extras from the costume department whenever one goes missing just to be safe."
Like tattoos, there are a lot of piercings in this film — though, to be clear, those are also fake. "Ear piercings are easy; you just glue a three-quarter hoop to the ear with a special silicone glue," Merker said. "The nose is harder, because you of course can't glue the inside of the nose. But you can attach a tiny magnetic ring on the inside and then place the piercing onto her nose so it holds."
Seeing as how this is an action film of sorts, the problem then becomes keeping these in place. "They were always disappearing because there are so many movements," she said. "It was always, 'Oh, you lost some again?' You always have to be aware and have extras from the costume department whenever one goes missing just to be safe."
Image Source: Courtesy of Heike Merker