A Tangerine Wig and a Tightrope Walk: Alec Baldwin as Trump
Thank you Alec for not letting up and getting under the skin of twitter boy.
It takes seven minutes.
A dusting of Clinique Stay-Matte powder in honey. A hand-stitched wig. Eyebrows glued up into tiny peaks. The rest is left to Alec Baldwin: the puckered lips, a studied lumbering gait and a wariness of humanizing a man he reviles.
The transformation of Mr. Baldwin, an outspoken liberal, into the president-elect, Donald J. Trump, for his running parody on NBCs Saturday Night Live, entails a tangerine hairpiece and a tricky tightrope walk. It means balancing a veteran actors determination to subsume his identity into a character, even as, in his offstage life, he is firm in his belief that the man about to take office is a dangerous figure.
The key to a convincing Mr. Trump, the actor said, are puffs his word for the pregnant pauses in the president-elects speech. I see a guy who seems to pause and dig for the more precise and better language he wants to use, and never finds it, Mr. Baldwin said in an interview on Saturday in his dressing room at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, six hours before show time, his eyebrows already peaked. Its the same dish its a grilled-cheese sandwich rhetorically over and over again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/arts/television/a-tangerine-wig-and-a-tightrope-walk-alec-baldwin-as-donald-j-trump.html