The Addams house is in many shots, but Debbie’s Dream House was built for one main purpose-to blow up. Gardner’s studios also built the miniatures that stand in for the Addams house and Uncle Fester’s new house (“We called it Debbie’s Dream House” for the nanny character played by Cusack, who plots to wed Fester). “I think the reward,” he says, “really comes from going on set and taking something that’s a bunch of motors and foam wrapped over fiberglass, creating something that’s alive and watching a film crew-probably your most jaded audience in existence, because they’ve seen it all-get excited about it, whether there’s a person in it or not.” The resulting Baby What gets one of the biggest laughs in the movie, but more rewarding to Gardner was the reaction of the film’s crew. The guidelines he received from director Barry Sonnenfeld and visual effects supervisor Alan Munro: “Here’s a ball of fur: make it cute, make it happy, make kids want to relate to it, make adults think it’s precious and want to hold it, and. Gardner didn’t have to worry about dealing with a potentially prickly actor with Baby What: the tyke is entirely mechanical.
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Instead of needing two hours to be put into full makeup, Ricci could simply lean into the dummy’s fake neck, leaving only her face needing to be made up. Two particular illusions Gardner created with his studio stand out in “Addams Family Values”: Wednesday’s blending into the woodwork-literally-and Baby What, Cousin Itt’s new offspring.įor the scene in which Wednesday (Christina Ricci) camouflages herself as part of a wall to spy on the sinister new nanny, Debbie (Joan Cusack), Gardner and his crew had to make a full body cast of Ricci and manufacture a stand-in dummy. Gardner, now 30, got his start apprenticing with three Academy Award-winning special effects artists-Rick Baker, Stan Winston and Greg Cannon (who won for his work on “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”).
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