{"id":49877,"date":"2019-01-21T11:06:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T19:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=49877"},"modified":"2019-01-21T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T19:06:28","slug":"gersha-phillips-costuming-section-31-and-the-klingons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2019\/01\/gersha-phillips-costuming-section-31-and-the-klingons\/","title":{"rendered":"Gersha Phillips: Costuming Section 31 And The Klingons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> Season Two red carpet event last week, several news organizations, including <em>TrekCore and TrekMovie<\/em>, conducted interviews with<strong> Gersha Phillips<\/strong>, who creates the beautiful costumes on the show.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips explained what work she has done for costuming those involved with Section 31, and Klingons who are not dressed for war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do a couple of uniforms for some security guards and some other beats,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I can&#8217;t remember exactly. I think we did a medical officer of some sort. But basically we just extrapolated from our Starfleet look, and brought it over and sort of gave it a black persona and adapted it to our Section 31 characters. So that&#8217;s the uniform look.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But a lot of the characters in Section 31 are wearing individual clothing. They just wear, I guess, Section 31 streetwear as opposed to wearing a particular uniform. So it&#8217;s really cool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the Section 31 pieces are some of my favorite things in the series. I just love them. And I think \u2013 we buy some things, we make some things, we augment some things, we sort of do a lot of everything to them and I think they turned out really great.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of directors \u2014 or not all the directors, because obviously you have to have a certain like for that type of world, but some of them have said that those are some of their favorite clothes as well, so I think it&#8217;s really cool. And everybody&#8217;s always saying, &#8216;What is that? Where did we get that? Where do we get that from?&#8217; so it&#8217;s cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Phillips also had to come up with a new look for the Klingons because now that the war is over, they&#8217;re dressed differently. &#8220;&#8230;It was really tricky coming up with Klingons that were not armored,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And still trying to keep the Klingon feel and the power of Klingons but de-armor them. First, they said fabrics in the script and I was like &#8216;No.&#8217; I don&#8217;t think it can be fabrics, I think it needs to still be leather. So we used a lot of leather but just reworked it in many cool different ways. So it&#8217;s been really great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Phillips also revealed that she had a favorite costume made for Season Two, although she wouldn&#8217;t say which character would be wearing it. &#8220;It&#8217;s kind of a duo thing,&#8221; she said; &#8220;starting in Episode 10 and the best part of it, for me, comes later in Episodes 13 and 14.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans will know which one when they see it, said Phillips. &#8220;Yes, you will! It&#8217;s really a favorite of mine \u2014 I think we really knocked that one out of the park; so I&#8217;m super-excited for people to see it. And I&#8217;m pretty sure it didn&#8217;t fall apart too much on camera while we were filming.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Star Trek: Discovery Season Two red carpet event last week, several news organizations,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,8677],"tags":[5663,2678],"class_list":["post-49877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-discovery","tag-costumes","tag-phillips"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PhillipsStarTrekcomCBS012119.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PhillipsStarTrekcomCBS012119-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PhillipsStarTrekcomCBS012119.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PhillipsStarTrekcomCBS012119.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PhillipsStarTrekcomCBS012119.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PhillipsStarTrekcomCBS012119.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PhillipsStarTrekcomCBS012119.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PhillipsStarTrekcomCBS012119.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PhillipsStarTrekcomCBS012119.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PhillipsStarTrekcomCBS012119.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-discovery\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Discovery<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Discovery","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49879,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49877\/revisions\/49879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}