Thanks to Mandy Moore's This Is Us character—matriarch Rebecca Pearson—the actress has already seen herself as an 80-year-old by way of prosthetics, glue, and paint. And contrary to what others might assume, she doesn't mind the transformation. She's not afraid of aging—on-screen or in real life. How do they make Rebecca look old on This Is Us? The team applied prosthetics to Moore's hands to “mimic more of that arthritic look,” Hay explains. Read More...
Permanent retinal damage can occur when someone looks at the sun for 100 seconds or less. This is under two minutes. Ultimately, how long it takes for damage to occur depends on several factors, such as the dilation of the pupil and the sun's intensity on that specific day. What happens if you stare at the sun for 10 seconds? When you stare directly at the sun—or other types of bright light such as a welding torch—ultraviolet light floods your retina, literally burning the exposed tissue. Read More...
Stan Rizzo’s transformation may not be the most meticulously documented on Mad Men, but it is one of the more significant. The only stable man in Peggy’s (Elisabeth Moss) life and the owner of SC&P’s most avant-garde facial hair, the art director, played by Jay R. Ferguson, seems poised to depart the sixties with his misogynist jock days more or less a thing of the past.
Viewers have been quick to jump at the occasional suggestion that Stan and Peggy could be more than just co-workers, but as Ferguson sees it, they’ve become the only consistently platonic pair on a show that often chooses to simmer with sexual tension. Read More...