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  • Narrator: This is Charlie Manx, the villain

  • in AMC's new series "NOS4A2."

  • He's played by sometimes-bald actor Zachary Quinto

  • and was designed by this guy,

  • Oscar-winning FX artist Joel Harlow.

  • Joel's work has been seen in tons of great movies like...

  • - All five of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films,

  • the first J.J. Abrams "Star Trek," "Lone Ranger,"

  • "Logan," the new "Hellboy," "Black Panther."

  • - I visited his workspace to learn

  • how he brought Charlie Manx to life,

  • and we looked at some of his other amazing creations.

  • Yo, I'm the new Hellboy!

  • Joel: There you go.

  • Joel: I was approached by production about doing

  • a transformational age makeup on Zach Quinto,

  • who I've worked with on several films, obviously,

  • both "Star Trek" films.

  • Narrator: In "NOS4A2," Charlie Manx is a supernatural

  • creature who feeds off the souls of children,

  • kidnapping them in a car called The Wraith

  • with the vanity plate NOS4A2, or Nosferatu.

  • It's based on a novel of the same name by author Joe Hill,

  • son of award-winning author Tabitha King

  • and some guy named Steve.

  • - What you see here is a silicone head of Zach.

  • Once the makeup is sculpted, you know what you have.

  • Let's just say we're talking about the 100-year-old.

  • Once the entire makeup is sculpted

  • on the stone copy of Zach's head,

  • then you decide where you're gonna cut the makeup apart.

  • Cut the neck off, we'll cut the chin and lower lip off,

  • we'll cut the upper lip and nose off,

  • cheeks, forehead, earlobes, and then when you're dealing

  • with a 135-year-old, there's the back of the head

  • because his hair at that point is so thin

  • that you see through the hair to the scalp.

  • Narrator: Creating a character from a popular book

  • is no easy task.

  • Luckily for Joel, he knew the author.

  • They met in 1994 when both were working

  • on the TV mini-series "The Stand."

  • - Well, fortunately, I am friends with Joe Hill.

  • He's the go-to guy. I mean, he created Manx.

  • One of his biggest notes to me was Manx's teeth,

  • even when he's in his earlier stages,

  • are still very sorta desiccated.

  • It's like 1800s dental work.

  • - How much does, when designing this, did Zach's

  • actual character of his face play into making the character?

  • - Oh, it played into his character right off the bat.

  • You know, and I never like to design a makeup

  • independently of the actor or actress

  • that is playing that character.

  • It's always very collaborative.

  • So there's a lot of, a lot of restraint required

  • when you're doing something like that

  • as opposed to doing a movie like "Star Trek Beyond"

  • where you're creating aliens that nobody's seen.

  • Got a lot of leeway there.

  • Hellboy, you got a lot of leeway there.

  • It's not a character that you see at the store

  • unless you're shopping somewhere very unusual.

  • - It'd be weird if you keep

  • running into Hellboy in your normal life.

  • - It's a lot of just dialing it in so it looks

  • like a believable old-age character,

  • yet maintains the characteristics of, in this case, Zach.

  • I would text Zach images of the designs, you know,

  • and get his sign-off, so he was very involved

  • as, you know, most of the performers

  • I deal with are in their look.

  • You spend all this time in the studio sculpting something,

  • sculpting a character, bring it to set, you apply it,

  • but it's not until it starts to move as that character

  • that it really comes to life.

  • And I don't know if you know any

  • 135-year-old people, but I don't.

  • One hundred and thirty-five does give you

  • a little bit of leeway.

  • You know, it's like you can push it a little bit there.

  • - Yeah, he's like, "Prove they don't do this."

  • Whereas Joel had little to reference

  • when designing Charlie Manx,

  • he had the opposite challenge with another movie

  • he recently worked on, "Hellboy."

  • I got to try on a few Hellboy accoutrements.

  • New Hellboy, let's reboot it again.

  • I'm ready.

  • Joel: Let's go.

  • Narrator: Getting into this stuff

  • is harder than it looks.

  • - Age 100 was about three to three and a half hours

  • to get him all ready. Yeah, I mean, it's long

  • to get this done correctly

  • because it is an old age, and it is a realistic makeup.

  • It took what it took,

  • and that was about three to three and a half.

  • "NOS4A2" trying to do four stages of an age makeup

  • that looks absolutely believable is very difficult.

  • You know, that's a challenge, that's a big challenge

  • trying to fool people in real life,

  • and, you know, once you do that,

  • you know you'll be able to fool 'em on film.

Narrator: This is Charlie Manx, the villain

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