The movie The Big Short is one of the finest movies in Hollywood seeping into the crime, comedy-drama genre. The movie starred many A-listed actors such as Brad Pitt, and Christian Bale, and other big names in the industry such as Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, and Margot Robbie. The most special feature of the movie was that all these big-shot actors were almost unrecognizable in the scenes due to their heavy makeup and props.
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The Big Short Had All These Big-Shot Actors Unrecognizable
The movie directors shared that they made the actors play their roles with such heavy makeup and props making them unrecognizable to us because they wanted to make them look as normal as possible. They wanted to make them portray the roles of common people and made them wear non-expensive hair with ungroomed hairstyles. The movie director and co-writer Adam McKay shared in an interview with Cinema Blend about the actor’s character design,
“These are the guys who don’t have the thousand dollar haircuts. These are the guys who don’t wear the six thousand dollar suits. These are the kind of shlubby, off-beat kind of guys who, when you’re in a room with them, don’t make eye contact, or in the case of [Steve] Carell’s character, are loud and boisterous”
Adam McKay wanted to clearly portray the difference between the rich guys from the big banks to that of the off-beat, improperly dressed, always tired employees from the small companies. The main motive of the movie was this difference between them, and the actors like Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt could not be playing these guys moving around with their faces when they are one of the most handsome men in the industry. So director McKay had to improvise and give them the makeover.
An Oscar-Winning Movie – The Big Short
The movie was based on a true event that occurred in 2007-2008 almost over a decade ago that involved the crashing of the housing market in the United States. Christian Bale’s character Michael Burry bets against the housing market as it was about to fall hoping to gain millions from this crash, but in turn, attracted the attention of multiple other individuals who were greedy enough to participate in this situation and make themselves huge profits during the collapse.
With a production cost of $28 million, the movie ran at the box office for a little bit more than $133 million and has many good ratings from the viewers along with positive critic reviews. The movie won many big accolades such as the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Awards, the Critics Choice Awards, the PGA Awards, and countless other nominations from the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Academy Awards, etc.
The Big Short is available for streaming on Prime Video
Source: Cinema Blend
