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How ‘Sing Sing’s’ Creative Team Accurately Recreated Prison and Approached Designs With Great Sensitivity
'Sing Sing's' creative team break down how they recreated costumes and the prison, as well as approached the world with great sensitivity to cast.
But when it came to the world-building and telling this particular story, Kwedar and the film’s team of artisans were sensitive to the group of formerly incarcerated actors who play versions of themselves. She had a hard time sourcing actual prison uniforms since those are made internally, and even though she did reach out, Marks opted for Red Kap workwear that she then aged and distressed. Kiskyte explains, “We really wanted to show how our main characters’ [prison] cells looked like — it was, interestingly, such a mind map of themselves.
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