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The first thing many Lucille Ball fans picture when they think of the actress is her trademark red hair styled in the “poodle cut” she made famous as Lucy Ricardo on I Love Lucy . Nicole Kidman’s hairstylist Kim Santantonio is no exception. “Styling the ‘Lucy’ wig is what excited me the most about this job,” she confesses. “My brain just went straight to figuring out how to get it to look like that. How do you get those curls on top of her head? We needed to get the bangs right for the perfect Lucy look. I remember watching the show as a kid and couldn’t wait to see Nicole in that wig.” Santantonio started by fitting Kidman for a series of custom wigs, all crafted by renowned wigmaker Peter Owen. “They’re all human hair, colored to our exact specifications,” she says. “Samples went to Nicole in Australia, her makeup artist Kyra Panchenko in New York, and to me. We Zoomed to pick a couple of colors for red and brown wigs. They took about six weeks to fabricate and then I cut and styled them. I wet-set them all, because that is what would have been done at the time.” Santantonio notes that in the film Kidman is most often seen in what she refers to as the “table-read wig.” “It’s a soft red, more like an apricot, rather than the bright red associated with Lucy Ricardo,” says the stylist. “There were also two brown wigs, a light one and a darker one, for flashback scenes from Lucille’s younger days.” The biggest challenge, she recalls, was simply time. “We were all operating at double speed while getting Nicole ready each day,” she says. “It was a blur of activity. Her wigs were always styled in advance so we could fit them on very quickly.” LUCY’S CROWNING GLORY Nicole Kidman’s Longtime Hairstylist Tells All When Nicole Kidman’s longtime makeup artist Kyra Panchenko learned she would be transforming the Oscar ® -winning actress into one of the most beloved and recognizable women of the 20 th century, she says her mind zoomed in on one thing — eyebrows. “Nicole has these modern, full eyebrows that don’t work for Lucille Ball,” she says. “For me, Lucy is all about the eyes, and I wanted them to be right.” In keeping with Aaron Sorkin’s preference that the makeup team create impressions rather than exact replicas of the I Love Lucy stars, hiding Kidman behind a wall of prosthetics was out, Panchenko says. Instead she found small but significant ways to reference Ball’s appearance. “I contoured Nicole’s face to make it look fuller. Nicole’s almond-shaped eyes were made to look rounder, and long lashes make them appear larger. I hand-drew the eyebrows. Lucy always overdrew her lips, so we overdrew Nicole’s lips as well. It’s very subtle but it all adds up to Lucy.” Sorkin wanted her to emphasize that Kidman is playing Lucille Ball, not Lucy Ricardo, explains Panchenko. “He wanted a different Lucy than anyone has ever seen. The one in the writers’ room. Or the one that was alone with Desi. When she’s not on the show, which is most of the time, I made her a little softer and a little prettier.” Because Kidman wanted as much rehearsal as she could fit in, as soon as the actress got into the makeup chair, the glam team would pounce while the actress ran lines. “While I was doing her face, her hairstylist Kim Santantonio was fixing her wig and somebody would be doing her nails. With as many as four of us working at the same time, it took a lot of coordination. We eventually got it down to just under an hour!” THE LUCY WE HAVEN’T SEEN Makeup Artist Kyra Panchenko Helps Nicole Kidman Capture a Different Side of the Television Icon
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