Costume designer Terry Dresbach earned her secondEmmy nominationThursday forOutlander but the recognition is a bit of a mixed bag.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Congratulations on a well-deserved nomination.
Are you feeling a little lonely?TERRY DRESBACH:Yeah.
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I do, but the Emmys work in mysterious ways, as we all know.
You take your compliments where you get them and you are grateful for them.
You look around and you see the company you are in when you don’t win.
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It’s really okay.
you’ve got the option to’t go there.
There’s nothing to be gained.
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Now you have some perspective for season 3 costumes since you just finished with season 4.
How challenging was that year?Season 3 was designed to be very, very low key.
Most of them were in the 20th century as opposed to the grand 18th Century French costumes.
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But the workload is never small onOutlander.
We keep thinking we are going to make a small season and we never ever do.
It was as big and enormous as everything else.
Season 4 is even bigger.
It was a fascinating season.
The thing aboutOutlanderin terms of costume design, we did two centuries and four decades.
Was that more so than previous years?I think so, yeah.
We kind of went against the grain for a big costume show in season 3.
Where is ourOutlanderfrom before?
Where are the grand costumes?'
The story doesn’t ask for that!
It’s an interesting show that way.
Season 4 will give a completely different thing.
But it’s never ever gonna be predictable.
No one ever questions how many costumes the lead actors have.
But the actresses are expected to be a revolving door of over-the-top amazing costumes.
I basically recreated my own personal wardrobe from when I was kid for Brianna.
So that was fun for me.
And the costumes of my mother and my mother’s friend and my father.
It was very personal.
I was surprised by that.
I grew to adore the Batsuit (Balfe’s time-traveling costume, see below).
I had not always adored it.
As we disintegrated it on camera, it became a character onto itself.
Why didn’t you adore it?It’s not the most beautiful costume in the world.
it wasn’t supposed to be.
It was a challenge for me as a designer to design something that didn’t look that great.
Before we called it the Batsuit, I called it the Salvation Army costume.
It’s kinda drab and a little dreary and not very romantic.
That’s what I wanted it to be.
And then watching it disintegrate to nothing.
It’s an interesting thing when a costume can challenge you as a designer.
Will we see recycled clothes from season 3 in season 4?Yes.
I’m not telling you anything else.
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