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One of many funniest storylines in all three seasons of Arrested Growth (it was simply the three seasons, proper?) was when Tobias Fünke tried to affix the Blue Man Group, after encountering the mute efficiency artists whereas looking for a “assist group for depressed males.” And actually, is there any funnier line in the complete present than “I’m afraid I simply blue myself”?
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The person behind (or within) Tobias, David Cross, as soon as revealed that donning the blue make-up for these scenes was “an enormous ache within the ass” — though this revelation was barely overshadowed by his story about doing cocaine on the White Home Correspondents’ Dinner, which got here up in the identical interview. “It took a very long time to get utterly made up, and you then couldn’t contact something,” Cross advised Playboy. “The paint is pretty greasy, and in the event you touched something in any respect, even only a finger to your nostril, it’d smudge and also you’d have to return to make-up. So I’d be sitting there for hours, attempting to not contact something.”
Worse, as soon as the blue-ness was utilized, it was powerful to get off. “On the finish of the day I’d should take a minimal of two showers and very often three earlier than I’d get all of it off and will go to mattress. There was no jerking off with out critical colourful repercussions,” Cross disclosed. Though his struggles nonetheless appear much less onerous in comparison with what Tobias went by.
Cross later found that he endured blue hell for nothing. Within the third season, George Sr. finally ends up becoming a member of the Blue Man Group whereas he’s on the run from the legislation. This scene required the participation of the particular Blue Man Group, and once they confirmed as much as the set, they have been horrified at how the Arrested Growth workforce utilized their signature blue make-up.
Per Cross, as Jeffrey Tambor was being prepped for the scene, getting a coating of blue paint throughout his physique, the true Blue Males interjected, “No, no, no. What are you doing? We don’t do it that approach.” That’s as a result of they “put on a giant blue unitard with an oval opening for the face, and their face is the one half they really paint blue.”
Cross conceded that this “is sensible if you consider it,” including, “I want I had fucking identified that two years earlier. It might’ve saved me plenty of distress.”
However regardless that they use much less of it, the blue paint can nonetheless be very annoying, as one Blue Man Group member admitted in an interview. When requested about Tobias’ behavior of leaving blue smudges wherever he goes, veteran performer Russell Rinker mentioned that the paint “does get in every single place. However we’re diligent about getting it off, in any other case you simply brush up in opposition to one thing and it’s, ‘Oh, man!’”
He even mentioned that “generally you get up within the morning and the little issues within the nook of your eyes are blue.”
So regardless of over-estimating the quantity of blue make-up that’s required, Tobias’ struggles have been pretty true to the Blue Man Group expertise.
I’m guessing that the present was barely much less correct in its portrayal of the never-nude group.
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