The second stage of aging of old age makeup with a healthy face was tricky, and the stage scene because I knew the audience would be able to compare both sides at the same time you want to do cool prosthetic makeup, but you don’t want to make it too obvious. You want to blend with the face because you are building up with the prosthetics, but at the same time, you see the other side of the face which is not wearing any prosthetics. That’s hard. So there is a balance.
“The challenge really was in showing Diana on holiday without her kind of trademark hairstyle. It’s still saying Diana, so we would agonize over this wig when it had had salt water in it and she’d been diving. We just didn’t have the usual public silhouette that we could rely on.”