Designing the Costumes | Saints & Strangers

[Music] It's always fun sitting on sets, watching everybody in costumes. CU of course, it's the nearest thing to time travel you can kind of get, you know? Everyone disappears if the crews are in a certain way. You just look around, you see these people, and they all look so remarkably different and interesting. You find yourself focusing and looking really closely—like, who is this live person that's in front of me? Who's from a different time?

And then you know, our end their day, and people are wearing their casual clothes. We all look so just normal. It's a real letdown. The creative process has been amazing. It's been a real collaborative effort with hair, makeup, costumes, and there was a real openness to what we as individual characters could contribute.

I did ask for some feather action because I thought, you know, we as a people need to be able to have that sense of not just leathers and furs and all that, but also, you know, we know we were coastal people too. So to bring in shells and masas was always, uh, known for having this ornamental knife always hanging from it. I asked for a little bit of titi because I figured that I would claim the tortoise as my, uh, spirit animal.

The fun thing about doing a period piece like this is you don't have to change costumes a lot because they didn't come with wardrobes. So, I think over the two years, I changed my jacket once. This is a dress that's been tailor-made to fit me, and I'm going to actually miss it. I was putting it on today, and it feels like my dress, you know? It feels really great.

It's amazing. They've got people breaking down costumes on one side and making them on another. They've got knits, they've got, uh, sede cutters, and then, um, seamstresses specifically for leather and then another one for cotton. I mean, it's breathtaking! Their costumes, their look, their hair—again, everything is so authentic. It all felt so real. The attention to detail, how their costumes were broken in and worn, and the adornments—for me, it's like being a little kid and you're seeing, you know, the Native American characters come to life.