Styling Superheroes & Stuntwomen: An Interview with Judianna Makovsky from Captain America: Civil War

[dropcap1]W[/dropcap1]e hit the proverbial jackpot scoring an interview with Captain America: Civil War’s Academy Award-nominated costume designer, Judianna Makovsky. One look at her extensive resume shows that she probably dressed all of your favs, so you’re welcome, everyone. I feel like the real winner right now but enough about me, let’s get to the real reason why you’re here. -Brittany Black Nerd Problems: So my first question is, and this is gonna go back, how do you think your time at the Metropolitan Opera affected your entire design aesthetic and your entire design career? Judianna Makovsky: I love the name of your website. It’s fantastic! That’s a brilliant question! Well obviously starting at the opera as a child of five I guess my sensibilities are a little bigger than life. You’re dealing with outsized personalities when you grow up in the opera world. As a young child in that world, you’re learning how to collaborate and deal with a lot of different people and I think that really helped with working in the movie business for sure. It did absolutely affect how I look at design, growing up with these, as I said, larger than life costumes. That is a great question, no one’s ever asked me that before. BNP: So with Civil War and The Winter Soldier you were coming in off of another designer’s work. How much creative freedom do you get when you’re working on a film like that? JM: Well, I did The Winter Soldier so that was my sensibility. Because the first Captain Ameri…