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and in terms of your arms you feel
comfortable okay Paul theren teaches
Advanced film makeup at the Academy of
Art in San Francisco is so make sure you
get a good little glob of it there too
he's agreed to take me back 40,000 years
and fix me up on a date with a
neanderthal it's a big night you know
it's the prom so make me look
good
now suppose we wanted to make a movie
about a neanderthal guy how would we
begin to make up this guy to make him
look more like a neanderthal You' want
to make the face bigger so you would add
stuff to the front of the face and pull
the face out as much as you could my new
face isn't a mask it goes on in
pieces an enormous
nose swept back cheekbones hold that
down if I hold that down that's good
really heavy brow ridges his face is
enormous it's 20 to 30 or 40% larger
than any modern human enlarging the back
of my head takes a pound of silicone and
a pint of glue you could at least
approximate the shape of the neanthal
head by adding plastic or whatever they
do and give it this characteristic long
shape it's almost as if somebody took
their their fist inside the brain and
just sort of punched punched it out
backwards
and flowing from that enormous head red
hair some neanderthals were fair skinned
red heads according to DNA evidence this
would have helped their bodies generate
vitamin D in the weak Northern sun it's
funny though if you think about all the
reconstructions you see about
neanderthals they always give them bad
hair for some reason everybody assumes
that they had no hairstyle um and I
wonder about that no no I'm just looking
at the brown after 4 hours in the chair
my time travel is complete I think we're
we're there oh it looks good with what
you're wearing I'm
alive oh my
go oh
my
God all right I'm ready for the
streets
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if I saw this guy walking down the
street uh carrying a briefcase and a
cell phone would I know at a glance
there was something substantially
different or would you pass for one of
us I think you would probably figure out
this was extremely ugly and strange
human
being but you probably wouldn't want to
like rush and put him in a zoo I mean
you'd just simply uh think gosh he's got
a long low head and very big browes and
a ridiculously large face and maybe a
strange nose perhaps he needs to see a
dentist but you probably wouldn't
otherwise react too strongly I
suspect