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James Millar @ Belfast Print Workshop
Matilda The Musical’s James Millar on his transformation to Miss Trunchbull
Matt Gilbertson, Sunday Mail (SA) June 3, 2017 7:30pm
SHE’S one of the meanest and fiercest characters ever to tread the Festival Theatre boards, but the man behind Matilda The Musical’s Miss Trunchbull is nothing like his onstage persona.
Each night James Millar goes through a “trunchformation” — the long process involving make-up, padding, wigs and costuming — to help him become the former Olympic-level hammer thrower and headmistress of Matilda’s school, a place she rules as a tyrant, dispatching wayward children to The Chokey.
There’s even an ice pack involved.
“The costume is very heavy and there’s a lot of padding, so I do have an ice pack underneath to keep my temperature down at the start of the show,” said Millar.
Make-up is first — a thick layer of Mac foundation before highlighting every wrinkle and imperfection.
“Normally people use make-up to cover things up. With the Trunchbull, we do the opposite. We want to enhance the worst qualities.”
The wig is then placed on Millar’s head, a slick, tight bun with not a hair out of place, before moles are glued to the actor’s face with spirit gum.
Millar then steps into his fat suits of which he has two — “They have names — Mildred and L’Shondra,” he joked.
Finally, it’s Miss Trunchbull’s heavy costume, giving the more than six foot (180cm) tall Millar an even more commanding, and frightening, presence.
“It’s probably not until the belt is done up that I really feel like her. She comes alive with the belt,” he said.
WAAPA graduate Millar joined an elite male-only list of actors who have played Miss Agatha Trunchbull since the musical opened in Stratford in 2009.
I do love when they use official Melbtilda production photos!
Also, the photo of James in hilarious!
These photos were included in the article I just posted, but here you go!