The skull of a Genius, Interview with Moshe Grunfeld

[Music] what I really loved about this project was that usually by other projects I'm limited to this limited that don't do this don't do that so I asked for so what am i limited to what should i do what should i do I don't know because a lot of shows they have a lot of limitations so Burke told me with these words tell me mocchi take your creativity and go nuts I was really excited I was I was like I was able to create a borse create a doctor's galovski I was able to make us so he with a beard with a debate all types of things that I tried to implement different characters it was just so so much fun I was able to make a gaga by somebody selling nuts every detail like putting on pie it's taking off quiets my camera there was there was a lot of fun and of course we had challenges as well like besides all the interesting faces so to speak we had I had to like be able to portray the morale in a certain manner like I couldn't make him Justin he wasn't just another face I try to imagine tomorrow how he would look like and how how I could bring the firm morale down to us like the little people you know years later what do we know what do we understand who the model was so that was quite a challenge so I was like it was like Aten maybe even 9 months before they started filming the skull of a genius and bar called me up with this excitement hey Moshe I had this project I I needed to be involved in this project it's all about like I think he told me that he believes that with the right to makeup and costumes this could be the the thing I was very curious about he was talking about because he has experience with a lot exciting stuff and I was very very excited to work with him and he sent me the script I looked through the script and I III was like whoa no this is like a whole new level of entertainment but Wow and it's just like I had to have to like just like I thought it's a dream I was like this is this was like the matter now with with us go getting a kid with I'm dr. Scholl offski and oh like okay that's a project now let me see so so I started researching about the era and about the history with a matter how and so after all the research I did with about the error and about the morale and about the whole situation that was going on there a lot of kitchen was going on there in those days it was a very interesting fascinating information I started breaking down by the all the actors how they should look like I started envisioning how it could bring out the character with a makeup and the costumes because once you see the actor on a movie within a few minutes he should find out you should figure out right away who this character is and what they're all about so I had this idea for Sophie that he was a he had a burnt face it wasn't in the story he had a print face and it was covered up with a beard so he had this idea that he was like this weird interesting guy that wants to like blend in so to speak and he was with Porsche so worse was like this nice guy he comes across very nice and polite but really he has this evil part in him so we car kind of like with a this nice blotchy face but it was like a little more than just blush he was more like a bloody block brush wasn't a bloody brush more like a bloody texture of a blush and that brought out his cheeks it's just angry cheeks and he had this bump on his head and this that just added added some character Tim and moving on to of course dr. skull of skis don't need to say more the name and the makeup says it all there was a lot of work we put in before the shoot and add the shoot we worked for three hours I have to brush I'm a good team with me and we work together that should only take three hours otherwise we'll take away longer and that brought out this whole character the idea of a galovski and made him look more like the deeper eyes and the creases and everything it just gave the the right finish you know the the teeth when he gave this first smile yeah that was the that was a good one that was a good one moving on to the crag a bi was a one type of character that was very interesting to sketch up was really really that was a lot of fun and the motto had his whole soul is like you you have this personality that it was a very very kind guy but it was a very he was a real high spiritual leader so you had to have like this mix between the next thing that was a little tricky was the two fibers green mounds now you have this yeah so you have this board so that he is technically five-ish green Bell and he has a certain look and then he have like two weeks later yeah but another five agreement that shows up so they kinda have to both have to look like five ish Green Domino but one has to look like the fake one and but not to fake of course and then you have the real fabric streamer that has to show up and he is like this rich fibrous green gown so we had we had this concept with after a lot of sketching and back and forth and with ideas we had this idea that Bursa should have like this darker beard that it's also gonna bring out his like dark side personality and the other fibers green about the real one is gonna have this white not a white beard but it's like a grayish weight like it's brighter and rounder it's more I'm fighting friendlier the round the the brighter beard and they're round like the whole look that you were you are able to connect with both that they work they are both technically fibers green value but you were there was very easy to differentiate between the real one and the fake one when I got to the shoot the first day we were very excited it was very exciting got to meet all the actors and the staff and the crew it's amazing how we all work together it was very well coordinated it was the first day and everybody got that shoot it was a very exciting a very exciting day was a huge milestone like from the from starting to sketch till like the months and months of preparation was like eight months of preparation and designing and coordinating and putting everything together it's like there was amazing to see it happen like finally we're here we're here so the first thing was actually a little complicated because we had there was the morale scene it was a lot the shul scene and we had a lot of people to make up now we had to work on a very fast pace but but how shall we we pulled it off somehow going to the Lake George for two days shooting and filming and the beautiful magnificent Castle how specious when I so and the scenes over there was like so I'm so happy it's mom she after the smile that we found this place I don't know where birth finds everything and we're how he does everything but I don't know I think he has this magic wand and things just happened but no you can see that when somebody's like in to doing you know like off to you pea this guy Shem helps out they saw there's so many things that could go wrong he's so much the other sham that whenever we had a situation which it happens especially on shoots it's rain or I don't know what things just show up you see much - yeah - and when you do you mind your weight when you're sick with sockets if a bad manner Hashem is there just fit help out his mama dear another thing that I really loved about this whole project was you know like we were all emotionally involved it wasn't like just I came one day and I laughed and whatever was just it was more you know like my family came along to like Georgia shoot just to be there to help out another thing that I really loved about this whole project everybody was fully involved not just we didn't just come and go and whatever okay I did my part let me go home well it's just more it was we were like really involved emotionally and physically our families you know my family came to - my family came to the Lake George shoot and then embarks family showed up to that and everybody's like every shoot had it had different families there was just exciting really we got to meet each other and I figured out that Burke's wife and my wife have the same birthday because we were on set that day instead of going out restaurant I guess because let's not talk about it and and Jenna generally like you then finish it didn't finish like we finished the last shoot then but we didn't finish which we're still friends we're very we became very close friends like family friends and we're looking forward to many more projects together [Music]