((PKG)) PIA—KAZUHIRO TSUJI / PART 2
((Banner: Art and Life))
((Executive Producer: Marsha James))
((Camera: Kaveh Rezaei))
((Map: Washington, D.C.))
((NATS))
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor & Special Effects Makeup Artist))
Since I had a really bad childhood, I always had the kind of feeling of anxiety and guilty because my parents never praised me and so, I never had the feeling of accomplishment. But I had this passion of I need to prove myself. I could do something amazing.
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor & Special Effects Makeup Artist))
After I started to work in the film industry, I felt like my body started to fall apart and also my mind too and I felt like I'm almost trapped. That was a moment I felt like okay, I need help, I need to change.
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor & Special Effects Makeup Artist))
So, when I start to create a large size portrait, my feeling changed a lot. The big difference was the film job. It's all about waiting, waiting for something to happen, but art is quite different. I need to be the one to make something happen everyday.
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor & Special Effects Makeup Artist))
Beginning of 2016, (actor) Gary Oldman, he wrote to me and said there is a project he wants me to work on. He said, okay, this is about Winston Churchill. I know you are retired but I really want you to do a design on it. I wasn't sure if I should do it. If I take film job right away, I felt like I'm betraying my life decision. But I never had a chance to work on the film with the main character has makeup on, portraying a historical person. I felt like okay, if I say no to this, I will regret. So, I came back to Gary and said okay, I would like to take this job.
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor & Special Effects Makeup Artist))
The whole process to create the Churchill makeup was, it took about almost five months. By the time that the film was ended, I was like, oh my God, I worked on this amazing thing. I was a part of it. I never felt this way in my whole career.
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor & Special Effects Makeup Artist))
I wanted to make sure that everybody involved will be nominated because there's sometimes in the past, I was, kind of, knocked out from a group of nominated people.
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor & Special Effects Makeup Artist))
The day of the Oscar, I don't remember much because I was so nervous and my goal was just go there and finish speech and be done with it. I was interviewed after receiving Oscar, how I feel about receiving this as Asian. I don't think that way. I received this as one human being. It's not as an Asian and as soon as I start to think I'm Asian, I will fail. I think it's each person's responsibility to live as one human being and not to be conditioned by the label you put on the color of your skin. All people who succeeded, they go beyond that. You know, it's not what the outside look like. What's inside really matters.
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor & Special Effects Makeup Artist))
I hope I can use my life and contribute to creativity. I still struggle. You know, I still have some issues or problems but I won't stop learning until I die. You know, that's the way it is, I think.
