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"Lifetime&amp;#x27;s Liz &amp;amp; Dick airs on November 25 (can you think of a better dessert to your Thanksgiving meal!?), and you better believe we&amp;#x27;ll be glued to our TV screens to see Lindsay Lohan living out Elizabeth Taylor&amp;#x27;s scandal-soaked marriage to Richard Burton. We caught up with the movie&amp;#x27;s costume designer, Salvador Perez, Jr. to dish on recreating that amazing wardrobe and what Linds was like to work with! STF: What&amp;#x27;s it like getting a call to work on a project like this? SP: I have done some big projects before, but this was the biggest project I&amp;#x27;ve ever done in my life. It was really a passion project, I was beyond excited. It was also pretty crazy. It was on a micro-budget because it was for Lifetime, so we shot it in 21 days. I mean, we&amp;#x27;d have 100 extras and have to change them for four different scenes in one day. Elizabeth had 65 wardrobe changes throughout. There were days when we&amp;#x27;d have seven outfits on, and change hair and makeup seven times, so it was just crazy. STF: How &amp;quot;micro,&amp;quot; exactly, was the budget? SP: $155,000. I had to cut a lot of deals. I&amp;#x27;ve been in the business a long time, and I basically asked everyone I knew for a favor. There was no way we could have afforded to have some of that stuff made--the jewelry, the furs. People had a passion for the project and wanted to help. I had the jewelry re-created by this company Skinny Dog Design Group, and 14 Carats Beverly Hills, and they did it for me at cost. The furs came from an archive in Beverly Hills, too. You have to use the authentic thing, I mean the movie is about Liz and her glamour so how can you skimp on that? If I had not gotten the discounts, if I had to pay for everything, it would have been half a million dollars. STF: How important was the jewelry to telling her story? SP: It was essential. For the major pieces, I had replicas made, so a big portion of my budget was for jewelry. It was was like ok, I need clothes for Elizabeth, Richard, background, and jewelry. It was like its own character. STF: I read somewhere that Lindsay had final approval on all of the clothes. True? SP: That is NOT true--Lindsay didn&amp;#x27;t get final say. She had a lot of opinions and input, but she definitely didn&amp;#x27;t have final approval--Lifetime network and the producers had final say. STF: What was she like to work with? SP: She definitely had a lot of opinions. She knew what she wanted, but I think once we met and started doing fittings and she saw that I knew what I was doing, we got along just fine. It was a whirlwind tornado trying to get Lindsay to just sit, but once she did, she was great. As crazy as everything was, she knew her lines backwards and forwards. And she looks great. STF: Have you seen the final cut? How do you think it will be received? SP: I think it looks great! It&amp;#x27;s epic in that, what we were able to pull off in 21 days is pretty amazing. We did a lot of green screen--we weren&amp;#x27;t really at Trevi fountain, in Gstaad, but it looks like we are. The visuals are pretty amazing. I was there shooting it and didn&amp;#x27;t even realize how they did it. The thing is, I think that it&amp;#x27;s going to be the most-watched movie in Lifetime history. That is pretty much guaranteed. You realize as you&amp;#x27;re going into it how big it&amp;#x27;s going to be. Everything is going to be scrutinized to the last detail. But I&amp;#x27;m very proud of my work on that film and all I can say is, all I&amp;#x27;m responsible for is visuals. STF: How would you sum up your overall experience working on this movie? SP: We walked away from this project thinking wow, we can do anything. PLUS...see more pix from the set of Liz &amp;amp; Dick...AND...watch the movie trailer now! Photos: Lifetime"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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