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On today’s Crew Call we speak with 2x Oscar-winning costume designer Mark Bridges on his latest 1970s Paul Thomas Anderson reteam, Licorice Pizza, and the pic’s breakout actress, Alana Haim, on her character’s get-up for a carefree, hot summer stretch in the San Fernando Valley, 51 years ago. Bridges, who previously…

Marking his third collaboration with director Paul Greengrass, News of the World offered costume designer Mark Bridges the chance to tackle his first Western, and an earlier period than he'd ever before done on film. The Universal Pictures title centers on Captain Kidd (Tom Hanks), a Civil War veteran who journeys…

“It’s always a fresh page when you’re working with Joaquin [Phoenix],” said two-time Oscar-winning costume designer Mark Bridges about his work on Joker, during a conversation at Deadline’s recent The Contenders Los Angeles award-season event. “You’re creating a new person from the ground up. Whether he’s Doc…

After completing his work on Phantom Thread—the Paul Thomas Anderson film which earned him his second Oscar—costume designer Mark Bridges was looking for a "very different" kind of challenge, finding just that in Todd Phillips' Joker. A standalone origin story for the Joker, set apart from all past explorations of the…

According to star Jamie Foxx, the upcoming movie Just Mercy has the scent of authenticity. Let us explain. Foxx portrays real-life character Walter McMillian, who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white woman in Monroeville, AL. He was released in 1993 after spending six years on…

Reading Paul Thomas Anderson’s script for Phantom Thread for the first time, Oscar-winning costume designer Mark Bridges was reminded of the filmmaker’s seminal Boogie Nights, seeing another world of rich possibilities in front of him. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Reynolds Woodcock, a cutting couturier in ’50s…

When it came to making a drama thriller about a perfectionist fashion designer, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson reached out to his longtime costume designer of seven films Mark Bridges for Phantom Thread. The film follows Daniel Day-Lewis as British couturier Reynolds Woodcock, who lives a lonely life among his staff…

Inherent Vice costume designer Mark Bridges already has one Oscar on his mantel, for 2012 best picture winner The Artist. In his latest Oscar-nominated work, which also marks his seventh collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson, Bridges made 1970s Los Angeles garb look funky and chic. Not an easy feat…