![]() Martha Mitchell was a wealthy socialite, renowned for her big hairdos, but Roberts didn’t want to wear a lace front wig - one that has hairs individually hand-tied into a thin, nearly invisible material at the front of the hairline - so the actor’s head hairstylist Terrie Velazquez Owen worked with four wigs to help tell Martha’s story. When it came to Roberts, it was all about hair. “By bringing the brow down and adding that element really changed the makeup,” he says. That small addition distinguished Penn the actor from Mitchell. “Sean has interesting eyebrows, the tail part is trimmed, so I put a small piece to bring his brow down, and that changed everything,” says Hiro. Hiro notes that one aspect of Penn’s shocking transformation that helped shift the actor’s appearance was his eyebrows. He had a neckpiece as well as a shoulder piece. We also painted him with a younger face without the age spots,” Hiro says.īut Penn’s transformation didn’t just need a bodysuit and bald cap, Hiro created a top of the head piece, cheek-pieces, and nose pieces of platinum silicone. In one sequence, Hiro was tasked with de-aging Penn. Sean was darker, complexion-wise, and when I use silicone, I try not to paint so much, but his forehead was dark, so I had to cover that up.” He was also in the cult classic film Wristcutters: A Love Story.“We made a bodysuit because John Mitchell was much heavier,” explains Hiro, who also worked on Gary Oldman’s transformation into Winston Churchhill in “Darkest Hour.” His challenge was also in matching Penn’s skin tone to Mitchell’s. Whigham played Detective Burke in Joker and played Mitch Decker in the miniseries Waco. Gordon Liddy, the former FBI agent and Nixon campaign operative and leader of the group who broke into the Watergate Complex, is played by Shea Whigham. It should be fun to see Oswalt play Colson, as it is certainly a change from his work in more comedic roles like Max in Mystery Science 3000 and Principal Durbin in A.P. Colson had a reputation as Nixon’s “hatchet man” and eventually spent seven months in jail for defamation and obstruction of justice. Over the course of his long acting career, Penn has won two Academy Awards and played historical figures from Harvey Milk in the film Milk to Samuel Bicke/Byck in The Assassination of Richard Nixon.Īctor and comedian Patton Oswalt plays Chuck Colson, Nixon’s Special Counsel. ![]() Sean Penn plays John Mitchell, the Attorney General who valued loyalty to his president above loyalty to the law, the truth, or his wife. Collider’s review notes however that “while this show has been billed as the Martha Mitchell story, she’s really only about one-third of the pie.” It notes that White House Council “John Dean even begins to feel like the story’s protagonist… Dean’s naïveté hardly deserves as much screen time as it gets.” Despite concerns that there wasn’t as much focus on Martha Mitchell’s story as anticipated, Collider's Rebecca Landman still gave Gaslit a grade of B. Mitchell’s role as a modern-day Cassandra resonated with listeners and that podcast eventually became the basis for the new Starz miniseries Gaslit. Martha Mitchell and her nickname “the mouth of the south” were largely forgotten in the annals of history, until Slate’s Slow Burn podcast did an episode about Martha Mitchell as part of their series on the untold or forgotten stories of Watergate. The term has become more common in a variety of psychological, pseudo-psychological, and political contexts in the past few years. (The husband himself is actually the one behind both the noises and the dimming lights.) The play’s themes clearly resonated with audiences, and in 1944 it was made into a movie starring Ingrid Bergman, Angela Lansbury, and Charles Boyer. The term originated with the 1938 play Gas Light, which tells the story of a husband who tries to convince his wife that their house’s gaslights aren’t actually dimming and that she is imagining the sounds she hears coming from the attic. The title, Gaslit, is a reference to “gaslighting,” which is a pattern of convincing someone that their own accurate perceptions of reality are wrong.
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