A deep dive look into the costume choreography that had to take place for THAT scene in episode one, as told by Agatha All Along costume designer, Daniel Selon.
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00:00The transformational quality of this storytelling is what I think makes it special.
00:14Hey everybody, I'm Daniel Salon. I am the costume designer on Agatha.
00:19I love that she starts with her head in her hands here.
00:22It was kind of how we felt shooting this on the day.
00:27It was a very intense day schedule-wise.
00:30We had to get through a lot in order to accomplish it, and we did it all in one day.
00:35And that required an intense schedule.
00:39Like, we actually sort of scheduled out every minute of the day
00:44because we had to convince everyone between Cindy Wells, the hair designer,
00:49and Vasilios Tanis, the makeup designer, that we could accomplish it.
00:52Production was really concerned that we wouldn't be able to get through all of the looks.
00:57And it meant that we had to very specifically choreograph
01:03which garments she was going to wear under which garment.
01:07And then if she pulled the purple sweater up, what would it reveal?
01:11And could we cheat the pants so that she was already wearing the pants for the 80s look?
01:17So it was complicated.
01:18It was kind of like making a game plan.
01:21We did some sort of war room planning.
01:24And we had the hair and makeup room just above this set
01:28where we would run up the stairs and quick change her.
01:31The scarf here was super important to me.
01:34I really wanted there to be a texture that sort of hinted at where we were going
01:41as we went onto the road, which the textures of everything become much more elaborate.
01:46I remember standing with Catherine while she was getting wired
01:50and we had to rehearse the actual removing of the scarf over and over and over again.
01:56We had to choreograph it really so that it looked natural
02:01but also worked in the moment and didn't fluster her too much so that she could focus.
02:06The scarf choreography was important because it sort of set the entire tone
02:13of the dance that Catherine had to choreograph to do this.
02:18Here it comes.
02:20We didn't actually shoot it in the order that is in the scene.
02:24And the order that was dictated for filming was because of the hair and makeup and costume changes.
02:30So it was a big day for our departments.
02:33So here we are revealing the 2010s from WandaVision in the purple sweater which she ends WandaVision in.
02:39And then the reveal of the 2000s.
02:42The Malcolm in the middle.
02:44There's the juicy couture.
02:46The naughty couture in our case.
02:48And then she was going to unzip and then we would see the little cheat of the 80s.
02:54So good.
02:56Maybe my favorite wig actually.
02:58And she did so many of these takes where she lifted her head up into the mirror to see the 70s.
03:03And here she's trying to get it off but she actually can't
03:06because that is all one piece.
03:08Dress.
03:10With the push.
03:12The psycho lamp is so good.
03:14And here's the big reveal.
03:16Back into the 50s.
03:18So technically we actually skipped the 60s in this sequence.
03:21But we felt like this told the story fully.
03:25And there she is feeling herself just like we know her from WandaVision
03:29which is so satisfying to have the character take this entire episode to get to this moment.
03:34I love this realization.
03:37And the close up on this hand.
03:39Seeing this sort of colorless skin in this saturated color environment.
03:46It's just so spooky.
03:49This was a fun moment where she undoes this and it's like wait where's she going?
03:54This is the first look that we've seen her in.
03:56And here.
03:58And this.
03:59Our inspiration for this was of course Lady Godiva.
04:02As far as how we were going to do the hair and cover her up appropriately.
04:06But really it was about a rebirth.