Dolemite Is My Name’s Oscar-Shortlisted Makeup & Hairstyling Team on Capturing an Era
“There was a lot of collaboration among us,” says Vera Steimberg, who was the co-department makeup head on the collaboration between Eddie Murphy and Netflix on Dolemite Is My Name. The film itself recounts the historical collaboration of self-produced blaxploitation movie icon Rudy Ray Moore, who produced the original Dolemite, then “four-walled” it—exhibiting it himself—until it was eventually picked up by a distributor for expansion into both more movie screens, eventual video,
How Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Detailed the Look of Dolemite is My Name
If you ever meet Ruth E. Carter you’ll be enamored by her kindness. Her humbleness. The costume designer has seen her name pinned on multiple Spike Lee films like Malcolm X, Summer of Sam and Chi-Raq. She detailed Spielberg’s Amistad and Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s Selma. In February of this year, she won the Academy Award in costume design for her meticulous efforts in Black Panther,
Eddie Murphy Returns in First Trailer for Star-Studded Dolemite is My Name
There are a lot of talented people involved in director Craig Brew (Hustle & Flow)’s new Netflix film Dolemite is My Name. Netflix released the first trailer yesterday, with the story following down-on-his-luck comedian Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy) striking upon a career-changing idea: the comic persona Dolemite. Moore’s genius idea was to recreate himself—with the help of some friends—into a brand new kind of film star.
