Wilde admitted her longtime fear of wigs. "Maybe it's because most of the time they're bad bad bad and also painful," she wrote in the Instagram caption. "Maybe that's just my whack wig experience. When we were making DWD, I knew the hair was going to be a crucial, transformative element of our story-telling."
Enter: McIntosh, who quickly quelled any such doubts with her careful and masterful work. In addition to previous bad experiences with wigs, McIntosh tells POPSUGAR that Wilde was also concerned about the logistics of having to go back and forth between directing and getting into hair and makeup as an actor.
"Luckily, putting a wig on is probably faster than styling Olivia's own hair into that style, so that was a positive," McIntosh says. "Once we worked on creating a wig that was as real as we could, mimicking nature and having bounce, she absolutely adored it."
To create the wig's rich and dynamic red colour, the production's wig maker Robert Pickens used "quite a few shades of red for us" to find one that worked perfectly for Wilde's skin tone, which included a deeper shade underneath and lighter red toward the front.
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