[He has had only one close call, when he got his thumb stuck in the spokes of his mom's wheelchair and it caused an under-the-nail blood blister. The injury occurred in the post-Photoshop era, but even so, the resulting lag in work could have cost him trusted clients.] I thought Photoshop was the end of my career, ... I thought they'd be able to get any ol' pair of hands in there. But what most people don't realize is there's a brain that comes connected to these hands. You need to know the tricks of the trade. It's just like fashion modeling: You can get a pretty woman to put on an outfit, but once you send her down the runway, does she know what to do? |
And you've got to know how to work with people, |
Can I move it? |
Don't cry; I want to go. |
Eventually, I stopped picking up the phone. |
Got it, |
He lost nine months of work, and in that time I was able to make all the connections I needed. |
I need five minutes. I want to clean up this hand. |
It got so bad I went into an emergency room. I didn't know which way was up. |
It's a beautiful hand, |
It's a safety issue, and we're definitely on board with it. |
It's an opportunity to take something that's viewed as a negative and turn it into something positive. |
It's not like a broken leg that you can put a cast on it and fix it. It's an ongoing thing, but we're in it together. |
Just seeing which one is better today. |
My parents met on a set in Paris. They were both hand models. And they realized if they had a child, he'd have the most perfect hands on earth. |