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| Picture of Sissy Spacek holding
the prototype of the three dolls commissioned for the Disney movie, Tuck Everlasting. My mission
was to make three dolls that would have been likely to have been made
by hand by a settler in about 1820 (no sewing machines). The doll was
to belong to the character played by Sissy Spacek who plays the mother
in a family who around 1820, drink from a spring that makes them live
forever. The first doll was to be as if well loved and worn in about 1820,
then the other two were needed for a different part of the movie that
takes place 100 years later. One of those two was going to be used in
a house fire where Sissy runs in to save the doll that is so dear to her. In this picture, the doll does not have on a bonnet and apron that she came with. In the movie industry, people run around changing scripts constantly (just in the month I worked with them, the script was changed three times), so it is unclear exactly how it will appear in the final version of the edited movie. The dolls in the limited edition that I will sell will have the bonnet and apron. The dolls all are dramatically aged for film. It is hard to see her clearly here, but she has a very endearing face and hair that looks very real, but worn and wispy. |
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