For the majority of the movie, Styles's character Jack appears polished and put-together with a classic '50s quiff. Viewers get quite the surprise at the end when it's revealed that Victory is essentially a simulation that Jack has trapped Alice in — and that in real life, he's a disheveled, unemployed husband who resents his doctor wife for her success.
"We were just thinking kind of Rat Pack, like cool-guy," McIntosh says of Jack's 1950s look. "Harry's hair is so naturally full of volume so it just loves going into that shape."
Still, McIntosh didn't want the style to be too confined. "I didn't want to use any products that would hold it too much or make it too rigid, so when we want to see movement, that easily happens and easily falls down," she says. "Whether he's partying or arguing with Alice, that movement is there."
I tried to create a lank head of hair on Harry Styles and I couldn't. It's just so naturally voluminous."
As you might imagine, McIntosh had a difficult time creating a "dirtbag"-boy look on Styles. "I tried to create a lank head of hair on Harry Styles and I couldn't," McIntosh says. "No matter how much I tried to flatten it down it just wouldn't do it. It's just so naturally voluminous."
Her solution was to create a partial hairpiece that was intentionally thinned on the top, while Thorisdottir's team added a separate scalp piece "just in case we were to see through the hair."
"And then later on when he doesn't look like he's cut his hair for two or three years — the long stringy, nasty head of hair," McIntosh adds with a laugh. "Harry really leaned into it, too. It was a lot of fun for him. I think he hadn't done any kind of character work with hair makeup and stuff before so that was cool."
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