Welcome to the Rileys Saturday, a blog created to support Kristen’s upcoming movie Welcome to the Rileys, had an exclusive interview with Kristen’s make up artist Robin Matthews who’s done Kristen’s make up for many of her movies like Into the wild, The Runaways, Welcome to the Rileys and the Twilight movies.
The interview is extensive and very interesting; she talks about working on different looks for Kristen’s roles, what kind of make up she uses on her, how she started working as a make up artist and how you can make it in the industry of you’re interested in becoming a make up artist yourself.
Here’s a portion of the interview where she talked about Kristen pre and post Twilight:
I first met Kristen when I was working for Sean Penn. I was the Make-Up Department Head for his movie Into the Wild and Kristen played Emile Hirsh’s friend/admirer “Tracy”. Kristen was 15 at the time.
We met up again in 2008, for Welcome to the Rileys. Kristen shot some of her scenes and had to leave for a few weeks to do press for Twilight, which came out while we were shooting Rileys. As I remember it, when she came back, that was the beginning of the end of her being able to walk around without being mobbed by fans. It seemed like she left as a regular girl and came back as the exact same regular girl but with the whole world watching her every move.
Somewhere in that time period, Kristen asked me to be her personal make-up artist, and a few months later, we were in Vancouver starting New Moon. A week after leaving Italy, The Runaways and Eclipse followed back to back in what was a very busy year for us.
On going back and forth between looks. From sweet Bella Swan to badass Joan Jett:
We weren’t going back and forth but they were only a few days apart. It was a bit of a whirlwind, but that’s what we do for a living. We’re used to it.
On Kristen being able to pull off any look:
I’ve mentioned before that she’s a total chameleon with her looks in movies and she is. Look at photos of her from Eclipse, The Runaways, Welcome to the Rileys, and her in real life and tell me another actress that’s physically has transformed in her roles like that in a 2 year period of time.
Interesting tidbit from the interview? Robin says the crew on the set of Eclipse would throw grapes as far as they could and Taylor Lautner would catch them with his mouth!
Read the full interview here. Highly recommended.
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