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Without question, one of the highlights of my career was recreating the makeups for Michael’s iconic video Thriller, surpassing that if possible, was being able to portray the great Rick Baker during our Thriller BTS sequence. I was 9 yrs old when I came across the making of 1976’s King Kong paperback with photos of a young Rick Baker sculpting all of the Kong heads and I became obsessed. I immediately sculpted gorilla faces onto all of my G.I. Joe’s. Then came Starlog magazine with the Incredible Melting Man cover, then Star Wars and that cantina sequence…. But it was American Werewolf and then The Making of Thriller that I guess you could say my obsession and idolization of Rick Baker kicked into overdrive. My entire family knew the name Rick Baker better than my own as often as I spoke of him, joking, maybe one day I’d get to meet him. ☺️I’ve since been lucky enough to work for Rick on 6 of his films, one of which, Click, he even stepped off the Oscar nomination ticket so I could be on it. So you can imagine my thrill, being able to invite him ( and his family) to set the night we shot Thriller, seeing him crack up when he saw me dressed as him, seeing the A-team of make-up artists Christien and I assembled for the dancing zombies, and finally, hanging out on set and watching our recreation. Everyone was ‘thrilled’ that he was there. Our director Antoine, Producer Graham King, D.P. Dion Beebe and Jaafar were all excited to take a picture with him, which I think he got a big kick out of. Which just goes to prove that sometimes the superstars are not always in front of the camera. Thanks Rick, I wouldn’t be here without you…and ‘here’was pretty great

릭 베이커는 마잭이 좀비들과 춤추기 시작하자 그 고된 일과 스트레스가 보답받는 거 같았다고 합니다. 그 군무는 코러스 라인의 마이클 피터스가 짠 것.

스릴러 제작 과정 비디오 보고 특수 분장에 입문한 후배들이 많다고 릭 베이커가 말한 적 있었어요.

그 이후에도 잭슨과는 캡틴EO,  ghosts(스티븐 킹 각본, 스탠 윈스턴 감독)로 이어집니다.

https://youtu.be/anLqu77uTH0?si=eSou6kGRwYYREzEg

08년 슈퍼볼에서 그 군무는 나오미 캠벨과 도마뱀들이