Mad max 2 costume9/23/2023 ‘It’s more than just putting clothes on actors – you are there as a sort of therapist’ …Beavan at her London home. I’ve been very good, I’ve never divulged.” Thank God I’ve got a really pants memory and can’t remember a thing, because I do hear some fairly intimate stuff. Does she get good gossip? “Oh yeah,” she says, with a glint of mischief. If you were a film star, you would think nothing of telling her all your secrets while she was dressing you. Beavan has a straightforward, no-nonsense manner, but she’s also incredibly warm, her grey curls bouncing around her face, so the effect isn’t austere but fun and surprisingly comforting. We are sitting in her office at the back of her beautiful London house, where she has lived for more than 30 years. I snuck a photo.” Elements of it might make it into a film – “I might be doing something to do with ghosts” – but it will be squirrelled away in Beavan’s mind, even if she can’t find the actual photo now to show me. She was amazing she looked like a sort of strange clown. I don’t know whether she was from a sect or something – she was wearing white and had the most extraordinary white hat on. She took a secret photo the other day, she says, of “a fabulous woman. “I am the biggest people-watcher ever,” says Beavan, the British costume director who is up for her fourth Oscar next month. If you spot a woman trying to surreptitiously take a photo of you on the bus – you’d have to look interesting – there’s a fair chance it might be Jenny Beavan.
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