Valencia in a week Nelly Guimaras still receives the Emmy Award for Best Prosthetic Makeup for her work in the American series ‘The Last of Us’ (HBO).is based on a horror, action and adventure video game. “It was great because we thought we wouldn’t win, but it was also very strange because I was working in Malta and I saw the nomination online. Our boss had included us in the nomination to thank the work behind the project. The Valencian, based in Port de Sagunt, is from the Prensa Ibérica group Levante-EMV’ accepts the project.
Guimaras, who works most of the year in England, where most of her projects are concentrated, turned to the series two years ago after receiving a call from her boss asking her to move to Canada to do her prosthetic makeup. from this post-apocalyptic series. Thus, a total of 80 people went to the country to start the preparations and shooting of the production, which consisted of nine episodes and premiered on January 15, 2023. The Valencian only recalls that the preparation took a year. “There are months of work before shooting“, he recalls. So during this time, the winner was responsible for carrying out the entire make-up process, which consisted of creating a mold of the actors’ faces, with the make-up used by the heroes during the recording of the different episodes.
However, this is not the only project the Valencian player has worked on throughout his professional career. HE She also did her makeup.‘Pan’s Labyrinth’, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ or ‘World War Z’among others.
An advertisement in the newspaper
His beginnings in this world were quite accidental.. He remembers that he loved drawing and painting since he was little. “One day my sister came home with a newspaper with an advertisement for a makeup school,” she explains. He decided to try his luck and soon started working in a workshop in Paris. A few months later, the Valencian actor returned to Spain to collaborate on his first project. Guimaras was to do the prosthetic make-up for the film ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ (2006), directed by Guillermo del Toro, and as he puts it, “I remember it with great fondness, because we were like a family, we managed to reach very far”.
From that moment on, Guimaras did not stop working in the prosthetic make-up industry. “After that film, I started contacting British production companies,” he explains. Despite this, in the footage he is aware that: always meet many Spanish friendsThey had to move to other countries. “There is a lot of potential and they are very well known,” he says.
Travel to other countries
The Valencian constantly travels to different countries to improve his studies. Although it is a job that requires “a lot of sacrifice”, it turns into a “passion that keeps you busy”. “The biggest sacrifice is putting your personal life aside because you’re never home,” he admits.
He works in various workshops, where he manages to “find a place”. Despite this, he admits that he wanted to have his own workshop at first. “I noticed that they spent more time organizing rather than sculpting and painting, which is what we really like,” he concludes.
The United States Television Academy presented the awards this Monday, following the first delivery last week. Thus, the drama series ‘Succession’ and the comedy series ‘The Bear’ continued their leadership with six awards for the 75th time, followed by the mini series ‘Beef’, which managed to win five awards. The premiere was held in Los Angeles after it was postponed to 2023 due to strikes by Hollywood actor and screenwriter unions.