Agatha All Along‘s Costume Designer on What Made the Maleficent Outfit So Special

Agatha All Along comes to its decision with a double-episode finale contiguous connected Disney+, but we’re inactive reasoning astir past week’s episode, “Death’s Hand successful Mine.” It bid farewell to 1 of the champion characters (RIP, Lilia) portion furthering the improvement of Joe Locke’s mysterious young magic-user; helium was known lone arsenic “Teen,” until the elaborate reveal of his existent individuality and backstory successful occurrence six.

He’s William Kaplan, but arsenic astir fans had already surmised, he’s besides Billy Maximoff, resurrected lad of Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch. He’s walking the Witches’ Road with Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) and her hastily assembled, rapidly depleting coven, hoping it’ll supply a mode to reconnect with Tommy, his long-lost duplicate brother. We won’t cognize until aft the finale if there’s a household reunion successful store, but it’ll beryllium hard for immoderate large infinitesimal to apical the uncover of Billy’s translation into Maleficent, Sleeping Beauty antagonist turned Angelina Jolie-propelled Disney antihero, during “Death’s Hand successful Mine.”

As fans volition recall, each the surviving witches—who’ve gotten an outfit alteration with each proceedings on the Witches’ Road—suddenly recovered their manner became cinematically amplified. Agatha, for example, was the green-skinned Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. Billy’s look arsenic Maleficent, however, was the astir exciting, some for viewers and the show’s costume designer, Daniel Selon.

In a caller interrogation with Variety, Selon (who was portion of the Emmy-winning costume section connected WandaVision) explained the cautious readying and thought process that went into creating Locke’s ensemble. “It’s important successful authentic queer practice to marque definite that it’s done with the due intention. And truthful we looked astatine the archetypal Maleficent quality that is played by a pistillate presenting Evil Queen and she is successful a big, voluminous dress, essentially,” helium said. “So it was like, ‘OK, Joe, are we putting you successful a skirt, oregon does this go pants?'”

It did not go pants, arsenic it turns out, and Marvel and Disney were conscionable good with that. “We did inquire the question. We made definite with everybody precocious up the chain, it was like, ‘Here we drew it, we made our illustration.’ We were like, ‘This is what we privation to do. Is this cool? Making definite you each tin spot that’s a skirt.’ And everybody was like, ‘Absolutely yes, of course.'”

With that item retired of the way, Selon plunged forward; helium told Variety the lone absorption helium did get for the plan to was to marque definite Locke felt “at his astir powerful” portion wearing it. “[The fabric] is covered successful these tiny leather … sequences that person a reflective quality, but it’s besides similar armored dragon skin. And truthful I benignant of wanted to propulsion him from the feminine into this benignant of dragon which Maleficent becomes.”

Watch Agatha All Along‘s two-part finale contiguous connected Disney+.

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