Following on from our first chat with costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, talks to us more about her filmography. Today we touch upon Cocktail, Basic Instinct, Jacobs Ladder, What Women Want, Perfect Murder and a few things between.
The full transcript of our chat can be downloaded as a document Interview with Ellen (1hr long) _otter_ai (1).
Me – So Nino Cerruti came onboard for Basic Instinct?
Ellen Mirojnick (Costume Designer) – Nope, did not. I don’t know where you found that rumour. But it’s not been alive for many, many years. It’s dead.
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About Basic Instinct:
PB: On that last call, Ellen, I mistakenly assumed that Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction and Wall Street were the beginnings of Cerruti.
Ellen: I don’t know where you found that rumor. But it’s not been alive for many, many years. Well, no need to spread it any further.
PB: Talk about Michael Douglas, turning up to this nightclub in Basic Instinct. Please talk about what it was like working on that film and dressing. Michael Douglas in particular at that point.
Ellen: well, it was great to work on that film, it was really very, very clear what we had to do, and how we would go about doing it. All the actors were perfectly great, who has a plan ahead, and and we executed very much to what we had hoped to achieve. There was in that costume, particularly, and in her costume, that she wears in that same scene, what the choice for that costume was made for, for a reason.
And that was that in their dance number, it had to be a kind of costume where, during their dance and that choreography, she was able to put slip her hand gracefully underneath his sweater at his neck. And he was able to put his hand through the back of her dress. And subsequently, it was designed to have very low back and so only for those two reasons that those two choices were the impetus to to make those choices I should say. That’s fascinating.
