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The article focuses on the techniques used by makeup artists and stylists to transform the actors who played transsexual characters in the motion pictures Capote, Breakfast on Pluto and Transamerica. For Capote, costume designer Kasia Walicka Maimone says they rejected optical tricks, oversize sets and even more standard deceptions. One big help came from transsexuals, specifically film consultants Calpernia Addams and Andrea James, who run a company called Deep Stealth to help in all facets of a person's transition. Jason Hayes, a hair, wig, and makeup artist who created wigs for Huffman and did Addams's hair for the Transmerica drew on his own experiences in the drag and transsexual community.

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p44-45 2p; 2c