Sandy Powell: ”I began with Viola as a boy, because I was worried about getting that to be convincing. This

period is actually quite easy to hide a girl's Figure because it is so solid and structured and the classic male silhou-
ette ot the period is actually quite Feminine, as it accentuates the hips. Even though we're not trying to trick the
audience into believing this is a boy, we wanted to be convincing enough that the other characters are tooled. l

was surprised how once she was in her costume, without her long hair, how really boyish she could look."

Gwyneth Paltrow (actress): “The costume department made me this heavy triangular-shaped beanbag which
I stuffed in my tights—it's great to have that weight, that shift of gravity. It's the only Form of method acting I've
ever done, but it really helped."

Sandy powell: “On Shakespeare in Love the studio was very worried about the pants. It's a ditticult period tor
men not to look stupid, so the executive types kept asking. ‘Will there be tights?’ So we made the jackets a little
longer, the pants a little longer. You want to have believable clothes tor the period, but you don't want your

actors to look silly."

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998) 0 SANDY POWELL, COSTUME DESIGNER