“What worked for us was that natural, sophisticated look that Tammy had to help showcase the rest of the look for that particular period.” “If you end up with big makeup, big hair and big costume, sometimes they fight each other,” she says.

But Dowds, who won an Oscar for her work on “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” along with Ingram and Justin Raleigh, cautions that there’s a danger in going too big with a character’s hair and makeup. Ingram’s hairstyles added to the look, as did costumes by Mitchell Travers. “We bumped up the eye makeup a little with bigger lashes,” says Dowds. The key, Dowds says, was keeping the color palette soft. By crinkling up the skin, “you’re able to get fine lines around eyes, pull on the neck and get the tops of the hands,” she explains. That meant applying shading techniques to the creases of Chastain’s face, and using a highlighter to accentuate raised areas. “The contour and highlight way of aging is really helpful,” says Dowds. Jessica Chastain’s go-to hair and makeup team of Linda Dowds and Stephanie Ingram helped the Oscar winner for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” become country singer Tammy Wynette for Showtime’s “ George and Tammy.” Chastain has already won a SAG award for her performance in the series.ĭowds used light and shadow to hollow out areas of Chastain’s face, employing latex wrinkle stipple for subtle aging effects.

Jessica Chastain (BTS) George & Tammy: Credit: SHOWTIME Courtesy of Showtime

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