Academy Award-winning costume designer Ngila Dickson has been involved in some of New Zealand's biggest screen projects. Her early work includes movies Ruby and Rata, Crush and Heavenly Creatures. Since designing costumes for TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dickson has worked on a range of international movies, including Blood Diamond and Terminator: Dark Fate.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Dickson talks about:
- Creating costumes for acclaimed period piece Heavenly Creatures
- Learning a life lesson from Peter Jackson on the film
- How Xena: Warrior Princess provided her greatest learning curve ever
- Avoiding an obsession with JRR Tolkien on The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Creating specific design features for each of the story elements
- How winning an Oscar for The Lord of the Rings gave her traction in the American film industry
- Trying to achieve perfection on the set of The Last Samurai
- Learning the limits of CGI technology on movie Green Lantern
- The frustration of working on a lot of films that never get made
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This video was first uploaded on 05 May 2013, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.
