Hale Mapother: Her Story

I - Makeup, Tellers, and Training

When my alarm went off, I jumped out of bed. Now, I'm not normally a morning person - but I wanted to start my dream life as soon as I could. First was a call for a shower, to make sure my hair was nice and ready to be done by the hair department. They'd be doing tests this morning before I had my meeting with Miles and Keleigh. Then I put on my sweats so that I can easily change into Jade's trail base costume. Finally, I grabbed my overnight oats in one hand, and my script in the other. I left my trailer and began to find my way to the hair and makeup trailer.

When I got there I was greeted by many people. The woman working on my hair and face today would be Andrea. She was young, and sweet. She started by blow-drying my hair. "They want to give Jade some beach waves for the base look. Do you know of any issues your hair has with certain products?"

I shook my head, "No my hair is pretty strong. I do know that my scalp hates me. Scalp oily, and ends dry." I informed her.

"Ah, the hair I am proficient with!" She gushed, "Don't worry, you've got the best stylist in this trailer." The other's didn't argue, they just nodded and continued with what they were doing. Andrea left my hair slightly damp, and put some mousse in the ends scrunching them up into curls. However, she didn't let it dry like that. She finished blow drying my hair. And in the end I ended up with a beautiful blonde beach wave. I didn't speak much to anyone. I thought about what I would talk to the Teller's about. What they could possibly want to say to me.... Things like that. Soon enough, my hair and makeup was done, and I went to the next trailer over, which was costuming.

They had decided to put Jade in a similar outfit I had for her at my auditions. It was a dark green bomber jacket with rolled up sleeves. A loose white tee half tucked. Then there were high rise jeans, a dark blue wash with a light rip in one knee. They were skinny and the ends of them tucked into a pair of black heeled booties. Then of course there were aviators. They initially thought a purse would be a cute addition. Although, Jade is as they've decided not much of a purse girl - so they settled for having a bifold wallet in her back pocket. They made sure my hair fell on my shoulders nicely before they snapped some photos for reference.

After I was done with costuming and hair/makeup, I went to one of the meeting rooms on set. It was the same main room we were in last night. Miles and Keleigh were already in there - sat beside each other, hand in hand. We had our 'director chairs' I liked to call them. I sat in mine and smiled at them. We were in a tiny little circle.

"So, let's figure out boundaries shall we?" I smiled, "Also do we like Jade's fit?"

Keleigh squealed, "You look fabulous girl!"

"Boundaries, yes. And Jade looks like Mitchell" Miles smiled.

"Alright so, tell me. What is okay, what is not" I nodded, "I want you two to be comfortable with this – and I don't want to overstep anything at all."

"We do know that there are some spicier scenes in this film... So we discussed that as long as the most coverage in a scene is taken then we are comfortable." Keleigh smiled. I nodded, that was completely reasonable. Keleigh and I talked about a few more things. It seemed to be a conversation mainly between her and I. Miles just sat there holding her hand.

The meeting went well. It helped clear up a lot of things for the Jade and Bradley scenes. After this meeting, I had some free time. Which felt weird, because I already knew that this was unusual for this set. Although I did have more free time than originally planned since the meeting with the Teller's was shorter than scheduled. So I decided to walk around the set and learn where everything was. I talked to a few people as I walked around. Many told me that they liked Jade's look. It was nice to hear from people. The more I wore this outfit, the more I connected with my character.