SHOOTonline: Trish Summerville has thus far been nominated for five Costume Designers Guild Awards in her career--two of the honors coming for David Fincher films, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2012 and Gone Girl in 2015. Summerville won for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and again two years later for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Her other two Costume Designers Guild nods came for Westworld (TV) in 2017 and Red Sparrow in 2019. Westworld also earned Summerville a primetime Emmy nomination in 2017.
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I was impressed with the costume designer from the mank. Firstly, It’s a historical film so all the outfits needed to be accurate. The characters are all based off of real people so she spent hours researching them and their clothes so she understood their style. And on top of that, the show was shot in black and white so she needed outfits that would work on that special film. I can’t imagine where she even started with that since color is such an important part of design. I enjoyed what she said about helping the actors get into character through their costumes and I also liked what she said about his director: “ “He gives you a lot of room. It’s not ‘my way or the highway.’ He always wants you to show him more stuff, what else do you have. He’s open to ideas. There’s a lot of trust and dialogue.” I think it is so important for directors or anyone in a leadership position to be open to suggestions and the ideas and creative inspirations of other designers.
I really appreciated all of the research and effort that went into the consuming of Mank. Getting period pieces accurate is a challenge by itself without the addition of also having to do it in black and white. Being able to do camera tests was, I'm sure, very helpful for Summervile. And that additional time and research put into the costumes certainly made the costumes that much more fantastic than they already would have been, as well as making them more accurate to the times by working in the same colors they would have. I am also very impressed by the detail and thought that went into each character, and how their own costume nuances added to the dimension of that character. The article mentions making one character a little behind the times in fashion, one at the top of fashion, and another a little permanently disheveled. The way that these choices were made based on the background of the character adds so much to the audiences experience of that character as well as helping the actors performance.
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