YES, PRIME MINISTER!

ART & CRAFTS

"It was nice being P.M. for a while," Gary Oldman said to Vanity Fair's Krista Smith at the Toronto International Film Festival. After spending more than 200 cumulative hours in the hair-and-makeup chair becoming British prime minister Winston Churchill for Focus Features' Darkest Hour, the Oscarnominated actor was treated to a level of respect even he was unaccustomed to. "I'd walk to the set and the extras would all sort of lean against the wall, nod, and go, 'Morning, sir,"' Oldman said. This disappearing act came at the hands of famed F/X-makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji (Planet of the Apes, Looper), whom Oldman brought out of retirement to create the initial hair-andmakeup concept. David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick did the day-to-day work on Oldman, a task that involved two A.M. call times for the actor. "You have to get into a kind of mind-set for it," he said of the long hours in the chair. "You can't do a Darkest Hour and fight the process."

ANNA LISA RAYA