This past Tuesday the nominations for the 2024 Oscars were announced, which will be awarded on March 11 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, in the United States. The great highlight of this installment is Oppenheimer, with a total of 13 award nominations, followed by Poor Creatures with 11, The Moon Killers with 10 and Barbie with 8. However, it is also worth highlighting the great success of The Society of the snow, who will compete for two statuettes.
One of them is the best foreign language film, while the second is in the category dedicated to best makeup and hairdressing. It is in this second candidacy where you can find a face that combs and retouches daily a large team of presenters, collaborators and star figures located in a studio in San Sebastián de los Reyes. This is Marta Rodríguez, a hairdresser from Espejo Público, who has commented on the move with Susanna Griso on the program.
According to what he told before the cameras of the Antena 3 morning show, Rodríguez only participated in one of the key scenes of the film: that of the accident of flight 571 of the Uruguayan Air Force, which was filmed in the studios that Netflix has in Madrid. A recording that came after a break in filming, caused by a covid outbreak that left the actors out of action after the scenes recorded in Sierra Nevada.
With this, Rodríguez took on the difficult task of reconstructing the changed physical appearance of all the passengers after the impact of the fuselage. As the hairdresser herself stated, she is nominated for getting the actors dirty more than anything else. In total, there were 45 passengers and their corresponding doubles who had to pass through their hands, adding the rest of the hair and makeup team with the rest of the audiovisual effects.
Likewise, the nominee was also in charge of giving part of the recognition to the heads of the department, the twins Belén and Ana López-Puigcerver. Rodríguez insisted that both did an impressive job of documentation, with the aim of leaving the physical aspects of the characters as close as possible to the victims of the 1972 accident. A task that has earned them a nomination for one of the most prestigious awards. movie celebrities.
However, the protagonist of the brief interview was not even aware of it until a few moments later. “We had a link to watch the nominations live on YouTube, but I missed it. Five minutes later my cell phone started ringing a lot and I knew that we had been nominated. “I started crying like a fool,” she explained to Susanna Griso.
