{"id":2169,"date":"2012-01-10T23:17:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T04:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2012-01-10T23:19:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T04:19:16","slug":"transmissions-season-premiere-of-face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=2169","title":{"rendered":"Transmissions: Season Premiere of Face Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On Face Off contestants battle it out to see who has the imagination and technique to become the next big thing in Make-Up Effects. Tune in to Face Off to see some amazing make-up starting tomorrow night\u00a0at 10pm on Syfy. To give you a look behind the scenes and some hints as to what is coming up this season we have a special treat. Back in October Syfy had a Digital Press Tour with panels from many of their popular shows, including Face Off.<\/p>\n

Here is that transcript:<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: All right. Let’s talk about “Face Off.” So
\n“Face Off” is one of my favorite shows. It is a breakout
\nreality-competition show that involves makeup-effects artists.
\nWe are in the middle of shooting Season 2. So we don’t have any
\nfootage to show you, actually, but we have something better,
\nwhich is, we brought with us as — it kind of ruined my intro —
\nVe and McKenzie here to talk about it. “Face Off” premieres —
\nthe Season 2 premiere is January 11th at 10 p.m. I don’t know
\nthat that’s news, but I’m going to play my little — I’m going to
\nplay my horn anyway. Okay. I didn’t prep. Like, during the
\nbreak, I kind of screwed myself over. I’m sorry. Let me play my
\nhorn.<\/p>\n

(Telephone app played of sounds of an FBI agent.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, so that’s the news. Please welcome multiple
\nacademy-award winner and one of our judges, Ve Neill, and our
\nhost, McKenzie Westmore.<\/p>\n

(Applause.)<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Good morning.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Hi everybody.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Good to see you.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Good to see you, too. Hi. How are you?<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: I’m great. So, first of all, thank you guys for
\ncoming down here today. I know you are in the midst of shooting.
\nSo tell us, I think, first of all — well, actually, before we
\nget into the new season, I’ve got to talk about — you watch a
\nlot of these competitions and reality shows, and the winner wins
\nmoney, or you win some other things. But in the case of some of
\nthese, you always wonder what happens after it, and I really have
\nto — I wanted you to talk a little bit about what happened to
\nthe winner of Season 1 because, obviously, it was very much
\ninvolved with you being —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Right. Yes. He — it worked out really well. Conor
\nMcCullagh, who was our winner last year, it just so happens that
\nhe is a resident of North Carolina, and I just finished shooting
\nthe film “The Hunger Games,” which is a very, you know, exciting
\nproject for all of us because it’s probably going to be the new
\nset of films that’s going to take over from the “Harry Potter,”
\nyou know, the “Twilight” series.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Right.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: It’s a really exciting young adult book series. So I
\njust happened to run into Conor at Monsterpalluza, and I said, “I
\njust found out you live in North Carolina. Would you like to
\ncome be my third on “The Hunger Games”? So, needless to say, he
\nwas really excited about that. So that was kind of cool. And
\njust prior to that, I was shooting the film “The Amazing
\nSpiderman,” and while I was in New York, I hired two more of our
\ncontestants, Tate and Anthony. And they came and worked with me
\non “Spiderman” while I was in New York. So it’s really — it was
\nreally neat to be able to hire these gentlemen, you know,
\npost-show, and it was very exciting for our show as well, I
\nthink. So it was — it was really cool.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Yeah. I thought that was awesome that they had that
\nexposure.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: It was neat, yeah.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: So tell us a little bit about what we can expect in
\nthe new season.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Oh, my goodness. Season 2 —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: It’s pretty exciting.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>McKENZIE WESTMORE: — the challenges are just — the ante has
\nbeen upped so incredibly: the foundation challenges, the
\nspotlight challenges, a lot more women this year, which I found
\nvery interesting, which, with our first challenge, we break them
\noff into two teams, the men versus the women.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yes. We actually have equal amounts of women this
\nyear. Like, last year, we only had a few women. This year it
\nwas — we started off with 12. Was it 12 contestants?<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Fourteen.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Fourteen? So we have seven women and seven men. And,
\nyes, our first challenge —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Yes.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: — was the men against the women, which was kind of
\ncool.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: It is neat, especially in this industry. As
\nyou know —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yeah.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: — it’s a predominantly male industry. So to
\nsee the women kind of breaking through the industry is nice to
\nsee. So we started off with — it was a “Wizard of Oz” theme,
\nand it was reinventing “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” the original
\nbook, and they had to reinvent the three main characters. So it
\nwas fascinating to see the choices that they made as far as doing
\nwhatever they wanted with the Tin Woodsman, the Cowardly Lion,
\nand the Scarecrow. And then we moved into — our next challenge
\nwas then —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Well, the important thing to mention about that was we
\nreally didn’t want them to do anything that was in the movie —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Yes.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: — because we were actually going off only the book.
\nSo they really — and it was a themed challenge. So the women —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Which they got to choose.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yeah, which they got to choose. I think the women
\npicked the most popular “Wizard of Oz,” which was really
\ninteresting.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Yes. You know, a little cliche if you ask me. I’ve
\nseen it so many times.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: They rocked on that one.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: It really tests me to see a post-classic (ph)
\n“Wizard of Oz.”<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yeah. The girls really rocked that one. They did a
\ngreat job, and the guys did kind of like a horror —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: A dark horror.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: — dark horror, scary thing, yeah.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: There’s not a lot of songs in — yeah.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: It’s kind of hard to sing those tunes.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Right.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: So then we went into — next was the aquatic\"\"<\/a>
\ncreatures. I took them down to the Long Beach Aquarium, and they
\ngot to travel through the aquarium and take a look at all of the
\ndifferent animals and create a human aquatic creature. And the
\nfun thing about that — and they always love when they hear my
\nheels clicking because they know that there’s some twist coming.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yeah.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: They are starting to not like me now. So I
\ntold them last minute — not last minute, but I told them that,
\non top of having to create this creature, it now has to be
\nwaterproofed. And they then had to figure out how to make their
\nentire makeups, head to toe, waterproof so that their models
\ncould be submerged in a tank for five minutes.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: And they also have bits and pieces of, you know,
\nfabric or clothing on them as well because, obviously, they are
\nnot going to be nude, but — and then they were completely
\nsubmerged in a giant tank that we had right on stage.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Yes.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: And they had to be able to stay in the water for five
\nminutes, each one of their creations.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: So that was kind of really cool and interesting.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: That was interesting.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yeah.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: To see it beforehand, to see it in the water,
\nand then for the judges to see it after, to see how the makeup
\nhas held up —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Exactly.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: — because that happens. That happens on
\nset.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: After that, then we had our infamous
\nnude-body-painting challenge, which also increased this year
\nbecause the models were doubled. Each contestant or teams of two
\nhad to do two models. They had to choose a background, and one
\nhad to blend, and one had to be a character. So that was also
\nreally interesting, had a little drama that day as well, which
\npeople will find out.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Yes. Actually very interesting, like, what happened
\nthat day —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Yes.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: — which we are not going to talk about.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: We are not going to.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: I don’t —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: You will have to wait and see. You don’t
\nknow. I was the only one there.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Oh.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: The judges are kept —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: No. The judges are kept quiet. They are
\nkept out of everything.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>VE NEILL: As a judge, we really only get to see what comes on
\nthe stage. So if it’s not shown to us while we are on stage or
\nif we get to do a walk-through, which I’ve already done — I’ve
\ndone two walk-throughs already.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Yes.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: I’m getting to do more walk-throughs this year, which
\nis kind of cool. And, yeah, so far, these few challenges that
\nwe’ve done have all been in teams.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Yes.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: So our next challenge —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: The next one after that was I took them to
\nLinda Vista Community Hospital in downtown Los Angeles, which
\nis a —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Which is a really creepy, scary, closed-down place.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: A very haunted landmark of hospitals in
\nAmerica.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yeah.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: And they had the challenge of taking a phobia
\nand incorporating it into their own thought of a horror one. So
\nthey were then individually locked into rooms, not locked, put
\ninto rooms for 30 minutes —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Locked up.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Locked up. All right. To inspire —
\ninspired them to create their horror (unintelligible). So it was
\nfun. It was a really interesting, fun challenge. And then they
\ngot to see them as individuals and the talents that would start
\nto emerge, broken away from team challenges. Up until then, this
\nwas the first —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yes. Up until then, we got to see — up until then,
\nwe really couldn’t tell who was, you know — I mean, we’d get to
\nask them questions —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Who was going to break through.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: — “Who does what?” You know, “Who did this?” “Who
\nsculpted?” “Who molded?” “Who did most of the application?”
\nBut, up until this challenge, we never really got to see what
\nthey could do individually. So this was really kind of a
\nbreakthrough challenge for us as judges to really be able to see
\ntheir accomplishments.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Uh-huh. That’s very true.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Then we had dangerous beauty, which —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Do we have any more challenges in between there?<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Well, we had foundation challenges. Each
\ntime we had foundation challenges —<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: That’s okay. You don’t need to do that. They have
\nthe catalog. Somebody you want them to watch.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Yeah. These foundations challenges were —<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: They were very good.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: — were extremely fascinating this year —<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Yes.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: — with a lot of our guest judges. Those
\nwere to be just as fun this year as the spotlight and just as
\ndaunting for the contestants to try to get through that two hours
\nas opposed to their full-on, you know, dinner —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: And we have lots of really great guest judges this
\nyear.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Oh, gosh, yes.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: And so it’s really going to be fun, some from our Syfy
\nfamily.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Indeed there are.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yes, there are, which is kind of cool.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Talk a little bit about — I think what’s really
\nfun — and you mentioned how many more women (unintelligible) you
\nwere able to get. There’s no question that Season 2 — and being
\npart of the casting process on the other side, we — I felt like
\nwe got not only more applicants, but a higher caliber of talent.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Much.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Did you find that?<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: I think so. I think we have really a lot of people
\nthis year that have a lot more experience and perhaps a little
\nbit — I don’t want to say more talented because we really
\nhaven’t — we really can’t tell yet, funny enough. I mean —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Well, even some, though, that aren’t quite so
\ntalented, without naming names, there are a few that really
\naren’t even so familiar with what was even in their box to begin
\nwith.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yeah.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: So it’s really interesting to see. Across
\nthe board, they are very — it’s a pretty level playing field,
\nI’d say, this year.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yeah. And even, you know — even a couple of the
\ncontestants that weren’t really familiar with the products that
\nthey were going to be using are using them in a really —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Ingenious, inventive way.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: — ingenious, inventive way.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: I was shocked.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: And they are actually doing some techniques that I
\nhaven’t seen in a really long time, you know, like
\nconstruction-type techniques, which, you know —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: I remember you even saying — you are like —
\nyou are going to have to remember that one.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: This one did this thing that I couldn’t believe. I\"\"<\/a>
\nsaid, “That is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.” You know, it’s
\nlike even — Glenn didn’t even realize. He says, “How did that
\nkid know how to do that? That’s so cool.” He said, “We use that
\nall the time.” It like something that was a little-known
\ntechnique, and it worked so great. It was so simple.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Yes.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: So has that stepped up your game in terms of the
\nchallenges or how you are judging or what you are making them do?<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Well, you know, we don’t really have any control over
\nthe challenges, per se, you know. I mean — and they said,
\n“Well, do you want to know what you are doing this year?” And I
\nsaid, “No.” I want to be surprised when we go into the
\nchallenges, and I want to — I want it to be, you know, a
\nsurprise to me when I go to see it and to judge it. I don’t want
\nto have to think about it ahead of time because I don’t want to
\nhave any preconceived ideas, you know.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Yes.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: So I don’t know what the challenge is until the day we
\nget there.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Okay.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: And I, like, would kind of like to leave it that way.
\nYou know, I said to the other guys, “Do you want to know?” And
\nthey go, “Well, maybe.” And I said, “No, you don’t want to
\nknow.”<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: See, I don’t want to be surprised. I want to
\nknow everything. I want to go in knowing everything.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Well, you have to know everything because you are
\nthere every day. We just kind of come and go.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: I want to know way ahead of time.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Is it harder — has it been harder this year to be a
\nhost? because, obviously, everything has been stepped up more.
\nAnd now we are going some more places, and we are doing more
\nthings. Has that been more of a challenge?<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: It’s interesting because it’s harder in some
\nways but easier in others because, you know, coming from a
\ntheatrical background and having hosted last year, it was like,
\n“Wow. Okay. This is a learning — a little bit of a learning
\ncurve for me.” I mean, knowing the makeup world, knowing how to
\nrun a lab with my dad, and knowing all of that side of it made it
\neasy for me to speak as a host in this realm, but the hosting
\ngenre itself is a whole other beast. This year, coming into it,
\nit’s so much easier because now I know what I’m doing. Now I
\nknow how to host. Now I know I have a — I’ve gotten into a
\ngroove with the challenges and the foundation challenges and the
\nspotlight challenges and how to deliver them and what they need
\nto know, the specific information that each contestant needs to
\nknow.<\/p>\n

The only thing I would say that’s — and it’s not even difficult.
\nI don’t want to call it “difficult,” but it’s been different
\ngoing to all of these different locations. I mean, 2 a.m. at
\nLinda Vista Community Hospital —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: — which is one of the most haunted hospitals
\nin America —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: They woke the contestants up.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: — we woke the contestants up at 1 a.m., got
\nthem there at 2:00 to deliver the challange to them. And, of
\ncourse, I’m there wanting to explore around and “Where is my
\n\"\"<\/a>flashlight so I can go ghost-hunting?” “Oh, no, no. We are not
\ndoing ‘Ghost Hunters’ on this show. We are doing ‘Face Off.'”
\n“Sorry. I forgot.” It was so much fun, though. So that would
\nbe the only, like, major difference for me is getting to travel
\nall over and getting to see all of these fun places. And, too,
\nfor me, I love to see the contestants’ faces light up as soon as
\nthey walk in whether it’s we are in a location, and they are
\nlooking around like, “Oh, my goodness. Where are we? What’s
\nhappening?” And now, when they find out the challenge and how
\nextremely difficult it is — God bless you, by the way. When
\nthey find out how challenging it is, they just, like — I can see
\neither their faces light up, or their faces drop in complete and
\nutter fear. So it’s fascinating to watch them and see, okay, who
\nis freaking out this week?<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Great.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: That’s always fun.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: That’s great. All right. Well, let’s open it up to
\nyour questions.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Thank you. There’s a lot of appreciation for makeup
\nnow, especially with Greg Nicotero taking over as co-exec
\nproducer, “Walking Dead,” and guys like Tom Savini getting
\ninterviewed at conventions and things like that. So I’m kind of
\ncurious about people that are, you know, your colleagues or
\npeople that have inspired you. What are they saying about the
\nshow? Do they like it? And, also, what ideas are they coming to
\nyou with for challenges?<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Are you speaking to me, personally?<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Both of you.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: I — you know, nobody has actually come to me with
\nchallenges because I’ve made it very clear to them that we are
\nnot involved in that. And I think it probably might be a
\nconflict of interest. I’m not sure. But, for me, I think it’s
\nbetter to let — they have a really great team figuring out the
\nchallenges, and for me, every time I hear a new challenge, I am
\ntotally mind-boggled. I’m like, “Oh, my God. How did they
\nfigure that out? I never would have thought of that.” So I
\nthink they are really doing a great job of initiating the
\nchallenges and all of that. And all of my colleagues, as far as
\nwhat they are saying about this show, they think it is really
\nfabulous.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: They love it, yeah.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: And they are really excited about it. I mean, every
\ntime I talk to a makeup artist, they are going, “Oh, my God. It’s
\nso cool” —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: They love this show.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: — “that they are finally showing everybody how this
\nworks.” My only fear is that the producers are going to think
\nnow that we can do everything in 15 hours.<\/p>\n

(Laughter.)<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: That’s true.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: They have to remember that that stuff falls apart the
\nminute those guys are off camera.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: It is true, though. It’s really nice to hear
\nfrom the industry, from an insider’s point of view, the
\nappreciation and the love that true industry people have across
\nthe board at all levels, really do love the show because it does
\nshow a true look at behind the scenes of what goes on.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: I’m going to preface this by saying this may be a
\nstupid question, but I’m going to ask it anyway. How important
\nis funding for proper makeup? I mean — or how important is
\nmoney to creating, like, real proper makeup? And my second
\nquestion is how has digital technology affected how you approach
\ndoor makeup?<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Well, those are really two different, completely
\nseparate questions. First of all, you know, depending on what
\nthe makeup is, yes, some makeups are much more expensive to
\ncreate than others. You know, it depends on how elaborate it is,
\nwhat technology you are using, what type of product you are
\nusing. So it just depends on what is required, how long it has
\nto be — how long — the longevity of it, how many times it has
\nto be applied. All of these things are taken into consideration
\nwhen you are budgeting for a prosthetic makeup. I hope that
\npretty much answers your question without going into anything in
\ndetail.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Unless you are looking for, like, Halloween
\nideas.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Yeah, because I just always —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: That’s a whole other ballpark.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: As far as the digital technology, I believe that we
\ncan really work together in a very symbiotic way —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Yes.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: — because when I was doing the pirate films, I worked
\nvery closely with the guys who were doing all of our digital
\ntechnology. And they actually took pictures of our makeup,
\nBootstrap Bill, which we did, and they actually applied that to
\nthe actual digital characters that they were building so that
\nthey looked like our makeup. And I think as long as we have our
\ndigital technology working with us, you know, in conjunction with
\nus, I think we can really find really clever ways of making this
\nwork.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: There’s room for both.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yeah, I think so. I think everything has its place.
\nI don’t think it’s ever going to really replace an organic
\nmakeup, which I feel is really important because — and also, for
\nthe actors —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Yes.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: — it’s really difficult for actors not to be able to
\nhave —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: — that tangible feeling, yeah.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Yeah. They — I mean, a perfect example is as I was\"\"<\/a>
\nspeaking about Bootstrap Bill, he went through six or seven
\nstages of makeup, and he was only really supposed to be in the
\nmakeup for two stages, and then the digital technology was going
\nto take over. And he liked being in the makeup so much that we
\ncontinued on with the makeup as opposed to turning him into a
\ndigital character. So it really is helpful for the actors as
\nwell to have that organic matter on them, you know, for their
\ncharacter.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: That’s very true, which I’m actually getting
\nto experience for the first time now because I just had my first
\nlifecast done —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: All right.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: — ever, which is odd. Everybody’s says,
\n“Well, you are a Westmore. You should have had it done when you
\nwere one. What’s wrong with you?” So I actually got to
\nexperience it for the first time as we are going to change some
\nof our campaigns being the face of “Face Off.” So I got to have
\nmy first cast done and experience that and what it’s like to do
\nall of this covered in goop and rubber and everything. So —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Are you claustrophobic?<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: I am. Yeah, I am. So that was really fun.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: So what was that like? Was there a lot of
\nvisualization of, like, calm summer nights?<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Oh, I so went to my happy place. I was
\nhumming in my head. “It’s okay. It’s okay.” And I got through
\nit. I think there was a split second where Greg —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Did anybody hold your hand or anything?<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: No, nobody held my hand. No. I was like
\nthis the whole time. I didn’t even realize —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: They missed their window of opportunity. What a bunch
\nof dummies.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: You are so cute.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Other questions?<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Hi. You have had a lot of experience being on the
\nmakeup chair when you were on “Passions.” How was it different
\nwhen you were doing it this time? Was it more intense for you
\nor —<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: As far as?<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Being in the chair. When you just said you were doing
\na body cast and everything.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Right. This was definitely more intense. I
\nmean, I’ve had prosthetic pieces put on before but very
\nminimally. I mean, on “Passions,” my goodness, I did a lot of
\npast-life things, but they were more about the beauty makeups,
\nwhether it was “Cleopatra,” whether it was being on “The
\nTitanic.” There was one time where I did play a man. So there
\nwere more prosthetic pieces that went into that. Then, when I
\nwas on “Star Trek,” the extent I had of that other than being
\nStarfleet was being a Vulcan. So the ears weren’t too bad. This
\nwas definitely a completely different realm for me to have all of
\nthis done and to see the cast now afterwards and to see — to
\nknow what’s coming up as far as having the application of the
\nspecific makeups, which I’m not going to tell you, to knowing
\nwhat’s coming up is going to be really exciting. I’m so excited
\nto have all of this done, everything from contact lens to
\nprosthetic pieces, to teeth, to everything being done. Yeah.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: You are telling them everything.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: No. But they don’t know what it is. I’m
\njust saying what’s coming up.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: One more, if I’m allowed. You did hosting and acting.
\nWhat’s next for you as far as your celebrity bucket list?<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Well, I’m loving doing “Face Off” right now,
\nand we’ve got a lot of stuff coming up on the pipeline. I’m
\nworking on some product lines. I’m doing — working on a couple
\nof different projects on more of the production side as well. So
\nI’m definitely always looking back into the theatrical world. I
\nnever want to step away from that, but I am absolutely loving
\nhosting right now. So I’m happy where I’m at.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Are you going to cast her in a movie now and take her
\naway from us?<\/p>\n

QUESTION: We can work something out.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: I am Canadian as well. So —<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: We have time for one more question.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Well, you have a plateful of things like “Pirates,”
\nThe Hunger Games,” “The Amazing Spiderman.” What’s the appeal of
\ngoing from something — the appeal of going from all of those
\nkinds of big projects to serving as a judge on “Face Off”? I’m
\njust curious what the appeal was for you.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: It’s fun. I mean, I love my job, and I love being on
\nthe movies, but this is like a completely different thing. I
\nmean, it’s so much fun not to have the pressure of actually doing
\nthe makeup but sitting back and watching somebody else getting to
\ndo it.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: That’s true.<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: And, you know, it’s kind of great. It’s almost kind
\nof like a mentoring thing. I mean, I know sometimes the way I’m
\nedited, I’m kind of like the Simon Cowell of the show even though
\nGlenn is the one scowling. I actually, you know, eventually talk
\nto them a little bit. You know, as I said, I’ve hired several of
\nthe makeup artists. So it’s actually quite fun. I really — I
\nreally enjoy it.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: Great. Well, thank you very much for being here —<\/p>\n

VE NEILL: Thank you.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: — for coming down here.<\/p>\n

McKENZIE WESTMORE: Thank you, everybody.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN: They’ll be here for the next 10 minutes or so to
\nchat with you. Thank you.<\/p>\n

(Applause.)<\/p>\n

Face Off airs Wednesday nights at 10pm only on Syfy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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