Uma Thurman (actress): ”The pressure was immense. Mind you, when | first put my tracksuit on for my makeup and hair test, it was the first time I was remotely in the physical shape of someone who was gonna take on eighty-eight people. I had tears in my eyes, because the entire wardrobe department had bloody tingers from taking that costume in every week... . I was slowly, slowly shrinking, and it was getting down to the wire: Is she gonna make it? Or is this gonna be kinda funny tor Quentin [Tarantino, director], this kind of large-bottomed Samurai?" KILL BILL: VOL. 1(2003) - CATHERINE MARIE THOMAS, COSTUME DESIGNER