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Julio Torres Has Bold and Bright New Color Theories
The Problemista and Fantasmas creator shares how colors have shaped his work (and life).
Torres’s earliest filmed works, including My Favorite Shapes and the sketches from his time as a writer on Saturday Night Live, tend toward the pale. But his newer works have been laden with bright pops: Tilda Swinton’s bright-red hair in Problemista and Emma Stone’s and Cole Escola’s vibrant Real Housewives dresses in Fantasmas. The seed of the idea for the show, which Fred Armisen had sold to HBO, was “horror makeup artists in Mexico City.” He asked my friend Ana Fabrega and me if we wanted to write it with him and be in it, which was an insane gift to suddenly receive.
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