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It’s one of my favorite parts of acting," she gushes.
Even when she’s not rockingperiod makeupor ateased-out hair-doherself, beauty is never far from the narrative.
It’s a visual medium," she explains.
Here, I picked Brie’s brain for the stories behind the looks that have defined her career.
Brie as Annie in Community, season one.
The character’s makeup and hair were also both firmly planted in 2009.
That youthful glow," Brie recounts.
Annie’s hairstyle was even less performative.
Brie as Trudy in season three.
Brie as Annie in Community, season one.
It was a very radical move," Brie laughs.
Didn’t we all just do it in the early aughts?"
Brie in Trudy’s signature pink lipstick.
With that, she notes, she’s happy to leave Annie’s aesthetic in the past.
Brie as Trudy in season three.
“Obviously, no one was expecting that to happen that day.
Brie inMad Men’s final episode.
Brie also notes the attention to detail and complete historical accuracy that Horochowski and Rivers insisted upon.
“They were true artists, and really researchedthe time periodand the looks.
Brie in Trudy’s signature pink lipstick.
Brie as Ruth Wilder inGLOWseason one.
“It was more about asking ‘What were women really wearing in this year specifically?
Did this color lipstick even exist?'”
“It’s not like women werecontouring their cheeks.
Brie as Ruth/Zoya.
The makeup was actually very simple, and so was the hair.
That commitment to accuracy actually caused some on-set conflict when Brie was filming two hit shows at once.
We started doing a lot of updos,” she recalls, laughing.
Brie inHorse Girl
Brie inMad Men’s final episode.
“It’s also maybe the most genuinely happy that we see Trudy in the show.”
“I think they’re the queens of period pieces on television,” says Brie.
Brie leaned into her character Sarah by getting an unsexy bob.
Brie as Ruth Wilder inGLOWseason one.
As for Ruth’smakeup routine: there was none.
Brie says that goingmakeup-freeon camera was more than just convenient.
Brie inSpin Me Round.
It was a really huge transition for me.
I found it just really freeing.
I feel like it helped me to come into my own as a woman.
Behind-the-scenes ofSpin Me Round.
It was a real moment ofself-acceptance.”
Brie says that transformation meant an hour in both the hair and makeup chairs, respectively.
The products themselves even became an inside joke on set.
Brie inHorse Girl
“We wanted to age up the [stereotypical] ‘horse girl.’
Mentally she’s trapped in preteen mentality, but she is a woman in her 30s, she explains.
She also says Sarah’s wallflower proclivities and her struggle to discern reality from imagination meantminimal makeup.
Sarah’s hair, though, evolved from conception to release.
(Filmmakers, they’re just like us!)
Brie leaned into her character Sarah by getting an unsexy bob.
“From the start, we set out to give me a pretty lame haircut,” she laughs.
and I was like, ‘No, this is great.'”
“I can hardly think of a moment where I’veworn a wigfor anything.
Did I make the right decision?
So there’s something really fun to me about being off the hook.
I had to do it for the role.”
That commitment is also about sinking into her roles more effortlessly.
“It’s really about the art; I want to disappear into these characters,” she adds.
I want to inhabit these characters.”
Brie inSpin Me Round.
Behind-the-scenes ofSpin Me Round.
“At first, she’s trying to do herself up in a very romantic, classically beautiful way.
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