Thursday 13 April 2017

Deborah Hooper – The woman who dresses Eastwood

Deborah Hopper started her costume-design career in the fantasy/make-believe worlds of opera and ballet. Now, renowned for her down-and-dirty, true-to-life style, she is a perfect match for filmmaker Clint Eastwood, and her 32-year run with the director proves it. Beginning in the wardrobe department on Malpaso productions such as Tightrope and Pale Rider, Deborah progressed through films including Heartbreak Ridge, Bird and The Dead Pool. In 2000 she became Malpaso’s costume designer working on Space Cowboys, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River, Flags of Our Fathers and Sully, all of which reflect her relentless research and her penchant for including the vision of actors in her creative process.

Clint trusts me and trusts my work,” says the designer. “I use resources like Sears & Roebuck, back issues of Life magazine, high school yearbooks that give me a snapshot of everyday life. With the work that I do with Clint, his movies are basically everyday life, so the costumes that I deal with are everyday clothes. The costumes, in a way, have to be invisible. If they show then I think it’s kind of distracting. It should be more about the story

Deborah received the Distinguished Collaborator Award during the 14th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards on February 21st 2012 at the Beverly Hilton. Clint was of course in attendance to present her with the award along with actor Ken Watanabe and actress Marcia Gay Harden.

Deborah has become a reliablle and integral part of the Malpaso family; it is a collaboration which has stood the test of time and long may it continue to do so. 

Deborah Hopper / Clint Eastwood credits
Costume and Wardrobe Department: True Crime, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Absolute Power, The Rookie, Pink Cadillac, The Dead Pool, Bird, Heartbreak Ridge, Ratboy, Pale Rider, Tightrope

Costume Designer: Sully, American Sniper, Jersey Boys, Trouble with the Curve, J. Edgar, Hereafter, The Eastwood Factor (as herself), Invictus, Gran Torino, Changeling, Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Blood Work, Space Cowboys 
 

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