MADAME TUSSAUDS: THE FULL WAX
Friday October 20 at 7.30pm and watch On Demand
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It’s dubbed ‘London’s favourite tourist attraction’, enticing more than 2.5 million visitors every year, all eager to get up close to their favourite stars… in wax form. Now, audiences can discover what goes into creating the incredible, lifelike waxwork figures in documentary Madame Tussauds: The Full Wax.
THE PROCESS
Creating lifelike replicas of well-known personalities is no mean feat, with each lifesize figure – a combination of a wax head and a more durable fibreglass body – taking up to six months to complete and costing around £100,000 (AU$191,000). As many as 350 photographs are taken of the subject during a two-hour sitting, capturing everything from size, skintone, hair and eye colour, any significant birthmarks, weight,…
