Jay Roach was scouting a location at The Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, with some 50 members of his crew and executives from Annapurna when his cellphone rang. "I get a call from my agent saying, 'Don't say anything because we don't want everyone to panic, but your studio's out,' " Roach says. "I looked around and realized that our executives on it didn't even know.
When Theron read Randolph's script, she asked Roach, with whom she had been working on an unproduced TV project, for his input. Roach, who had directed ripped-from-the-headlines HBO movies like, responded with enthusiastic notes, including on how the film could be a warts-and-all portrayal of Kelly, unwittingly talking himself into a job. "It's a tough decision to jump into a film about women's empowerment, as a man," Roach says.
Costume designer Colleen Atwood re-created what she calls Ailes' "good girl but with a wink" aesthetic for on-air talent — body-hugging sheath dresses, jewel tones, towering stiletto heels. "[Ailes] had a clever kind of intuition about what people would notice — and especially, obviously, men," Atwood says. "He branded that look in a way."Los Angeles Times
For godsakes, dying your hair blond is not hard!