ComingSoon spoke to Monkey Man mask designer Eddie Yang about the action film's monkey masks and working with Dev Patel.
to create the two masks scene in the decorated actor’s directorial debut. Yang discussed the creative collaboration, making it fit Patel’s vision, and discussed the symbolic white mask. Monkey Man is now available to rent or buy at home from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
Yeah, it’s, it is walking a fine line and just kind of really nitpicking things and going back and forth with him. And I think this is probably one of the first times that he’s worked with a character-type design. We had several Zoom calls and discussed it. I even had some designs that were, I think, much more of the Indian culture, let’s say.
Dev had a very clear vision of what he wanted, which made it a lot easier, like I said. We just kind of had to nudge the details and say, how far do you want to go with this? How damaged do you want the mask? He wanted to see it kind of with blood on it and what that looked like. So yeah, he kind of wanted to see it in all different aspects of what he was thinking for the film, and I had no idea what he was thinking as far as putting the blood on it and all that stuff.
We see the black mask in multiple fight scenes in that arena. How is it making it durable to where it can withstand getting in some action? Yeah, it was always one. I think he knew he was gonna use it very briefly, and it’s symbolic. I only now realize, after having seen the film, that it was based on that monkey that you see very briefly with the white hair and the dark roots and stuff. He showed me photos of that, and I didn’t realize they had already shot that ’cause it, it looked like it was the same photos that we based the hair color.The response the film has received has been great.
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