[Ads-l] Word: wigging - Hollywood vocabulary

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wigging: placing a wig on a male stunt performer to act as a double
for a female thespian

Website: Deadline Hollywood
Title: 'The Domestics' Special Effects Coordinator Says He Shares
Blame in “Wigging” Incident
Author: David Robb
Timestamp: February 21, 2018 6:32pm

http://deadline.com/2018/02/wigging-special-effects-coordinator-shares-blame-the-domestics-1202298572/

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Guy Clayton, the special effects coordinator on MGM’s The Domestics,
says he feels responsible for the “wigging” incident that led to a sex
discrimination complaint filed with the EEOC by stuntwoman Deven
MacNair, because he told “the powers that be” that he could get the
special effects ready on short notice.
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The union’s investigation into the incident concluded that "wigging a
male stunt performer to double for a female performer is not
acceptable and that this should not happen again," and that it
"remains committed" to ending the practice of men doubling for women.
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Garson

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