Sean Foot
- Make-up Department
- Special Effects
- Additional Crew
This stalwart makeup artist is one of the many hardworking people from
New Zealand who have benefited from Peter Jackson's meteoric efforts to
make the country a cinematic powerhouse. Starting with Jackson's first
foray into true drama, Foot was there as a prosthetics technician for
the effects house Weta as it worked on "Heavenly Creatures." Foot's
association with Weta continued doing home-grown effects for the
popular Hercules television show, but his real claim to fame was at
having his hand on someone's foot - namely that of Sean Astin - as that
actor's prosthetic worker who was charged with putting Hobbit feet on.
The joke was an amusing one: Sean Foot put feet on Sean Astin. Though
he was visibly tired of this joke by the time Foot's behind-the-scenes
footage was taped for the DVD of "Fellowship of the Ring," this
hardworking makeup artist surely will be remembered as having stood a
head above the rest.
