Vice Makeup and Hair Interview
The Weird Role K-Y Jelly and Latex Played in Transforming Christian Bale Into Dick Cheney
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"My theory is that Lynne was trying to appear as young as possible to constituents, since her husband kept having heart attacks. She worked hard to maintain that perfect image."
"Adam [McKay, the director], Greg [Cannom], and I agreed that since most Americans couldn't tell you what Lynne Cheney looked like, it was more important to successfully age Amy Adams over the span of 50 years than it was to create an exact likeness," Biscoe said. "I wanted to get across that Lynne Cheney was always very aware of her public persona as well as her family's. My theory is that Lynne was trying to appear as young as possible to constituents, since her husband kept having heart attacks. She worked hard to maintain that perfect image."
To create that youthful effect, she worked with the film's hair department lead Patricia Dehaney to hide elastic bands and surgical tape under her wig. "I used these to pull at Amy's eyebrows into the same place that Lynne Cheney's were at that age," Biscoe said. "In the early 1960's, fuller darker brows and pink lips were in style. As Lynne got older, her eyebrows became lighter, thinner and wider apart so I would bleach and shave Amy's. She was such a good sport."