Styling Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s Oscar buzz generating film, was easier said than done. Dale Hrabi spoke to Suttirat Anne Larlarb who landed the job [via The Daily Beast]
Chaos assaults you in Mumbai, says hot costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb, who spent six months in its Dickensian swarm on Slumdog Millionaire, the brutal new feel-good movie that’s generating huge Oscar buzz. Director Danny Boyle’s go-to wardrober, she’d only been on the job an hour before a Mumbai driver casually slammed his car into her shoulder. “I fell flat on my back in a puddle,” says Larlarb, who found the incident more funny than ominous. “For me, it was a cosmic message that things were going to come at me from every direction, and I was just going to have to get up and get on with it.”
Not that this chilled-out flexibility came easily to Larlarb, a rising design star who’s increasingly renowned in film circles for her tireless, sometimes sleepless, perfectionism. She worked as the art director for lauded indies such as The Savages and The Namesake, and since her costume work on Slumdog, she’s been mulling a steady stream of offers for both major Hollywood and indie movies. She’s currently styling the upcoming Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page film, Peacock, a period thriller whose visual team is crammed with Oscar nominees.
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