500 Days of Summer & Newsroom Costume Designer: Hope Hanafin

Hope Hanafin has been working as a costume designer since the 1980s. She’s received two Emmy nominations for her work, and in 2001 she won an award from the Costume Designers Guild for her work on the show Geppetto.

She came on the show to discuss some of the things she’s learned about filmmaking throughout her career, and then we discussed some of the specific wardrobe choices she made on 500 Days of Summer, The Newsroom, and Thank You for Your Service.

Some of the things we discuss include

How to dress for success on set
How a costume can inform a character
Where to find information about costumes in notable films
Best practices for how filmmakers can work with a costume designer
The differences between creating costumes for actors and for musicians
Ways that a costume can upstage a scene and when to avoid that
The strange but alluring appeal of the sweater vest!
What the costumes on 500 Days of Summer, The Newsroom, and Thank You for Your Service reveal about the characters on those shows
How she collaborated with Aaron Sorkin on The Newsroom

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500 Days of Summer & Newsroom Costume Designer: Hope Hanafin

If you’d like to hear another interview about working with actors to create a certain look for a film, then you might appreciate this episode with Dana Boisseau, who has worked as a hair stylist on films like Ray, Django Unchained, and The Butler.

Show notes for that episode are here:

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