2024

Well goodness… that took a while… I had prepared myself to do little creative things where I got to be clever and pat myself on the back… and lo and behold… I kept landing in big things that had very long post production periods… and very severe NDA’s with threatening language… which meant I couldn’t post anything… it was two years on The Witcher, seasons 4 & 5 as one of 3 main team supervisors… thank you to Deb Watson and now 2026 has gone with Hunt for Gollum… working with Peter Swords King so 2025 and 2026 are still big mysteries… but 2024… thats out there…and I had great fun on the main team learning all sorts of things (I can now confidently stick ears on) working with wonderful actors – Danny Woodburn – Zoltan, a sharp tongued but ever loyal friend to the Witcher himself (played by Liam Hemsworth in seasons 4 & 5), James Purfoy  – as the villainous scheming Stefan Skellen, Fabian McCallum played Kayleigh one of the doomed rats and the ever elegant Su Douglas as Assire a powerful witch. Clive Russell played Striborg, whose story telling bookended the series and thus had to be aged up… (or he could have just committed to a 8 month TV series and that would have aged him by 10 years…)

All had wigs, and then a selection of scars, tattoos, and facial hair… and in James case,  ever changing facial hair – as he would insist on going away and doing other jobs who needed him to shave… So I had to fill in the gaps… and learn a great deal more than I planned about laying on hair…