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What is that gel crap Bill has his hair slathered down with?


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Petroleum Jelly was used by the make-up and hair dept to represent the lard pomade that would have been used during the mid-Nineteenth Century

Initially, Mr Day-Lewis insisted upon using actual lard; however, it tended to melt under the warmth of the stage lights and run into his eyes, therefore Vaseline was substituted (much to his disappointment)

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