fake teeth

“I had fake teeth at the top and at the bottom,” Vergara reveals, adding that during the first week of production, they’d fly out of her mouth during scenes in which she barked out orders.

I had to learn how to speak with fake teeth, which felt very strange and added to the difficulty in finding the character’s voice.

The director Adrienne Campbell-Holt has Mark and Helen walk slowly toward each other while making sotto voce confessions: “I’m missing the nail on my right big toe,” “I have three fake teeth,” “I have arthritis in my knees.”

Vergara said she spent three hours in the makeup chair each day, donning a prosthetic nose, fake teeth, plastic “from my eyelids up to my forehead” to hide her thick eyebrows beneath her period-specific thin ones, as well as pads to flatten her bottom and bras that compressed her breasts.

A grin crept across my face as I took back the fake teeth.