Tim Muir, the Hair Department Head for Yellowstone, it's prequels, and other Taylor Sheridan projects, has shared the hardest show he's had to work on in his career yet.
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It turns out that Yellowstone was not the hardest show for Taylor Sheridan's Hair Department Head to work on. The show ran for years and had plenty of developmental issues, not to mention a load of characters. In my chat with Tim Muir, he went on about all the challenges he faced while working on the show, too.
Considering what he went through on Yellowstone, I'd assumed it was the most challenging show of his career. But I was wrong.
"Yellowstone was hard, absolutely, and especially the early stages of it, the first few years were very hard on that show," Muir explained.
"But I would say the hardest show I've ever done in my career would be 1883," he said. "I absolutely love it, it's a beautiful project, but one of the most hardest and most challenging experiences of my entire career."
"I've had a career for 25 years, so that's saying a lot."
Why '1883' Was The Most Challenging Project For Tim Muir
Tim Muir quickly got into the grisly details about working on 1883.
"I would say not only the elements and what we had to be and work in [were challenging], but I would say the hours we had to do to create and make it happen," he continued.
"You're styling period hairstyles, and those take a long time."
As the period hairstyles were so challenging, he'd have 18-hour days. With "5 hour pre-calls," "3 hours at the end of the night to take down wigs and wash and cleanse" the hair, and then"a ten-hour shooting day," his filming days would be stacked.
"Granted, you know, that's part of what we do. That's part of our job and that's part of telling a story, so I was grateful to be a part of it, but exhaustion plays a part and stress and all of that," he explained.
"So, I would say, you know you have to be out in the middle of nowhere, and you're dealing with horses, and animals, and buggies, and rivers, and everything in safety, and all the things," he recalled. But the list went on, "Extreme heat, and helping actors stay cool, too, because they're in wool" in 120 degree humid conditions.
Yeah, that sounds pretty hellish. But boy, did Tim Muir and his talented team pull it off.
