The Emmy and Tony winner also shares how he created storytelling costumes for powerhouse Cynthia Erivo in the Harriet Tubman biopic.
If Paul Tazewell wasn't a prolific stage, film and television costume designer , he'd consider being a psychologist. That's an idea the Tony and Emmy winner has "toyed with," anyway. Both professions do have a crucial aspect in common.
"I [realized] I would be able to express myself creatively and be much more expansive through theater," he says, about transferring to North Carolina School of the Arts as a sophomore. "I found a home in theater, which was really my original intent." Tazewell initially double-majored in performance and costume design, but narrowed his focus to the latter to graduate with a B.F.A. in 1986. He then returned to New York to earn an M.F.A. in costume design from N.Y.U.
"That was my first nationally visible production and my first Broadway show," the costume designer says about "Noise," which won a total of four Tonys and received five more nominations, including Tazewell's first . "Then that set me on my way." Ever curious and challenging himself to expand his "visual expressions," Tazewell applies his skills and talents to all mediums: stage, television and film — and, as he aspires, projects beyond costume design. "For me, it's more about not locking down my expectations, but, quite the opposite, and going as far as I can with what I do — what I love to do — where my life passion is," he says.
The movie begins depicting Tubman's harrowing escape from slavery as a teen and her risk-filled journey to freedom in Philadelphia, bustling with free Black Americans and a growing abolitionist movement. Her dress, worn from working the fields on a Maryland farm, grows increasingly tattered to illustrate the grueling physicality and emotional toll of her 90-mile journey on foot.
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