In her Sarah Palin get-up, “Game Change” star Julianne Moore was actually mistaken for the bespectacled, brunette mother grizzly from Alaska while shooting the HBO film in Baltimore. In the March 2 issue of Entertainment Weekly, Moore explained just how she achieved that perfect Palin look.
“She has a different architecture of her face than I do,” Moore explained, “Her eyes are much larger, her cheekbones are different, lips, everything.”
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To fix these differences, makeup artist Elaine Offers would use different colors of base on Moore’s face and then shade. Moore was given a brown wig, to hide her naturally red locks, and then wore contact lenses to change the shape and color of her greenish eyes. “What I’m really proud of is when I was in a fitting with the contact lens people, I asked them to make the iris of the eye larger than mine so that it would help the whole eye socket look larger,” Moore said.
And finally, with wardrobe, costume designer Daniel Orlandi replicated the clothes that Palin wore on the campaign trail. “We had reference photos, literally, everywhere on set,” Moore said. “Game Change” debuts on HBO Saturday March 10.
