Why Olivia Colman Didn’t Get Splinters From Getting Intimate With Alexander Skarsgård’s ‘Wicker’ Costume

Believe the hype. “Wicker,” now in theaters, is every bit as horny, romantic and wonderful as the trailer leads you to believe. Olivia Colman plays a spinster fisherwoman in a medieval community where marriage is what gives a woman worth. Although she is a fierce independent woman, the village mocks her as she goes about […] How "Wicker's" Artisans made Alexander Skarsgård's basket outfit. Believe the hype. “Wicker,” now in theaters, is every bit as horny, romantic and wonderful as the trailer leads you to believe. Olivia Colman plays a spinster fisherwoman in a medieval community where marriage is what gives a woman worth.

Although she is a fierce independent woman, the village mocks her as she goes about making her living. One day she goes to the local basket weaver, played by Peter Dinklage, and asks him to make her a wicker husband. Enter Alexander Skarsgård — yes, that is him under all that makeup — wearing a practical suit and prosthetic makeup to transform him into a basket man. It began with Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, who were adapting Ursula Wills’ short story “The Wicker Husband.” Weta Workshop artists, prosthetic makeup designer Joe Dunckley and lead makeup FX artist Sarah Rubano