Though Red One has opened to generally unfavourable reviews (read our review HERE) there’s been much praise for the recreation of Red One’s Krampus the half goat hybrid based on German folklore. Played by Kristofer Hivju best known for his role in Game of Thrones here he is piled under 8ilbs of prosthetics designed by Joel Harlow whose work has included Black Adam, Hellboy, Black Panther, Logan and won an Oscar for the 2010 Star Trek film. Along with costume designer L.J. Shannon the actor flew back and fore from Oslo to L.A.for fittings over the course of many months
“First we made a sculpture of my whole body, and then they made suits around it. When I flex my muscles, it has reactions in the suit,” said Hivju. The only snags were that Hivju’s skin broke out, and it took hours to put on. “Your skin can’t breathe when you’re covered from top to toe, so I got rashes and my skin went bananas,” he said. “It was quite tough, but the reward for how it looked was worth it.
“You’ve got six horns, a body suit, hands, gloves, teeth, lenses, then you have to make that design,” Harlow said of making Krampus practically. “Putting six horns on somebody’s head is not as easy as just gluing them on. You have to have an under-skull that supports those horns. That needs to blend seamlessly with the silicone skin, which needs to blend seamlessly with the hair pieces that go on top. Everything gets tied together with the lenses and the teeth and then it’s up to Kristofer to bring it to life.”
The characters big scene for Red one’s Krampus is the Krampusschlap where he and Dwayne Jonsson slap each other across the face and is the stuff of playground nightmares when kids will inevitably get the idea to copy the scenes themselves a la the, ‘You’ve been tango’d!’ adverts of the 1990’s.
The transformation began as a four-hour process, then was reduced to around two and a half hours. Around 40 makeup artists worked on the scene, which featured a variety of background actors dressed in equally detailed costumes as satyrs, fauns and other mythological creatures.
Costume designer wanted to make him something of a love god. ‘She said, ‘I want to make you sexy with the leather pants,’” Hivju added. “We played with how low the waist should go. Like, ‘What kind of butt do you want?’ I wanted a bigger butt, bigger butt, bigger butt. We had all these different sizes of muscles and legs. We spent a lot of time with costume fittings, but definitely the goal was to make him a hedonistic half-god.”
In reference to Krampus German folklore roots they made him a tank top that resembled birch bark — Krampus’ wood of choice for spanking naughty kids — and replacing his cloven hooves with boots inspired by Dr. Martens.
What you get on screen with Red One’s Krampus is one of the great on screen iterations of the folklore legend.
source: variety
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