Meet The Man Responsible For Creating The Wax Figures At Madame Tussauds

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Matthew Hilshorst leads the team building startlingly real celebrity doppelgängers for Madame Tussauds New York. Here's how they do it.

to her figure, on display at the museum’s Sydney location.

“Our marketing department has a video monitor with a constant scroll of entertainment news,” he told HuffPost last week. “Anything that’s happening ― they are the first to know and first to see how that can tie into one of our figures. I’m a perfectionist, so I would always like more time, but that can mean [making changes] as early as the next day.”

“There’s something new and surprising every morning,” Hilshorst said. “Maybe an ear will be cracked or eyelashes were pulled off. There are two bars in the attraction and sometimes people are not as careful with those drinks as you’d like them to be.”Two waiters get their photo taken with a wax figure of Al Roker at Peter Luger's Steakhouse in Brooklyn in New York City on March 2021.

“I get to shop,” he said, and his hauls have included an autographed Florence Johnson jacket and faux 1980s Olympic medals or the Michelle Obama “VOTE” necklace that broke the internet whenThe team is precise about every aspect of a figure ― but sometimes they get a little help straight from their inspiration. While Hilshorst says some celebrities want to be surprised by the unveiling of their likenesses, others take a much more hands-on approach to the creation of their wax doppelgänger.

 

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