Determined to Prove a Villain

Here's a behind-the-scenes snippet from last week's shoot for the Richard III: The Terrible Reign trailer that went up today. My good friend Philip Eoute directed the taping. He and his crew created a sort of "mini stage" backstage with the lights from IKEA, a spiral staircase sold to us for next-to-nothing by my church, and some great sliding doors. Oh, and lots of fog. I love Richard's clunk, clunk, clunk down the metal stairs in that fabulous boot. This was just a partial take.

Makeup guru Dan Sandy just plain nailed it with this creepy makeup. And Ron's relentless stare is downright chilling. Now if we can just get this all to transfer to stage. (Film is not stage, folks. Do we all get that?)

Here's the link to the actual trailer: http://www.bju.edu/events/fine-arts/cod/richard.php.