“Is Thing real in Wednesday?”
“Who Plays Thing in Wednesday?”
and “How Did They Film Thing?”
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have all become top Google searches since the show aired.
The character has single-handedly gotten people emotional over an appendage.
“The design started from that point.
Wednesday. Victor Dorobantu as Thing on the set of Wednesday. Cr. Tomasz Lazar/Netflix © 2022
Thing was in every episode; it was a key character that was with Wednesday a lot.
And we needed to figure out how to bring it back to life.”
Luckily, they reacted very well straightaway.
Tristan Versluis
We started playing around doing the sculptures, and it just flowed from there."
A major part of the prosthetic design was the stump that sat on top of Dorabantu’s own hand.
The final design of Thing dirty, cut up, and stitched together was Burton’s ultimate vision.
Tristan Versluis
“[Tim] did a sketch.
“A lot of that comes from his imagination and his influence.
Versluis reveals that for Thing’s first makeup test it had more redness (red-handed, anyone?)
Tristan Versluis
It was pushing it into a gothic kind of world.
It had a bit more history to it.
So maybe it was severed from a body at one point?”
“It gets you thinking a bit more.
The stitches brought it back to, ‘Something happened to it.'”
Perhaps that “something” will be explored in future seasons of the show?
To get into character, Dorabantu would first apply his blue chroma key sleeves.
“We had funny names for them,” said Versluis, referring to the stumps.
“It was literally a full-onprosthetic makeup,” said Versluis.
“The same way we would do an actor’s face, but with the hand.
It took an hour and a half every day it was a serious makeup.”
Just like any other prosthetic program, Versluis spent the day maintaining it.
“When Wednesday picks him up and carries him off?
Thats one of the prop hands.”
