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How Jennifer Grey Transformed Into Gwen Shamblin for Lifetime Movie
Jennifer Grey describes Gwen Shamblin's saga arsenic "a hairsbreadth story."
In Lifetime's Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation, premiering Feb. 4, the Dirty Dancing star transforms into Shamblin, the spiritual person who founded the arguable Remnant Fellowship Church and the Weigh Down Workshop.
Alas, she's go conscionable arsenic good known for her over-the-top constitution and elephantine hairsbreadth arsenic she is for her spiritual practices.
"You spot the diminution of her intelligence wellness with the ascent of her hair," Grey exclusively told told E! News' Francesca Amiker. "The hairsbreadth gets bigger arsenic she conscionable gets little and little successful interaction with reality."
So, to germinate into Shamblin, Grey spent 2 hours successful hair-and-makeup regular and relied connected 2 wigs made with quality hair, which she described arsenic "the young religion woman bob" and "mountain of hair."
It should travel arsenic nary astonishment that implicit the people of filming, she and the movie's hairsbreadth stylist became precise well-acquainted.
Made with existent quality hair, the wigs were "not the benignant you deterioration for Halloween," Grey explained. Over the people of filming, she and the movie's hairsbreadth stylist became precise well-acquainted.
"She had to enactment the wig connected and get my hairsbreadth each flat," Grey said. "I person a batch of hair. She had to marque it similar determination was nary hairsbreadth with a cap, past the wig and past unafraid it."
It turns retired nailing Shamblin's aesthetics came with immoderate pain.
"It was precise hard connected my head," Grey said of the bigger wig. "When it came off, my caput would ache a bit. It was conscionable a lot."
Grey besides paid peculiar attraction to Shamblin's articulator liner and however that went hand-in-hand with her intelligence state. As she told E!, "I would way wherever she was successful her trajectory of however extracurricular the lines she was consenting to draw."
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Ultimately, Grey recovered meaning successful what Shamblin's outward quality signified.
"I deliberation it made her consciousness beautiful," she said. "She indispensable not person felt beauteous due to the fact that she needed each of this minimizing and maximizing and truthful overmuch changing of her earthy self. Her earthy self, she indispensable person felt truthful atrocious about."
Gwen Shamblin: Starving For Salvation premieres Feb. 4 astatine 8 p.m. connected Lifetime.
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