For the majority of the movie, Styles's character, Jack, appears polished and put-together with a classic '50s quiff. Viewers get quite the surprise at the end when the truth about Victory is essentially a simulation that Jack has trapped Alice in — and that in real life, he's a disheveled, unemployed husband who resents his doctor wife for her success.
"We were just thinking kind of Rat Pack, like cool guy," McIntosh says of Jack's 1950s look. "Harry's hair is so naturally full of volume, so it just loves going into that shape."
Still, McIntosh didn't want the style to be too confined. "I didn't want to use any products that would hold it too much or make it too rigid, so when we want to see movement, that easily happens and easily falls down," she says. "Whether he's partying or arguing with Alice, that movement is there."
"I tried to create a lank head of hair on Harry Styles, and I couldn't. . . . It's just so naturally voluminous."
As you might imagine, McIntosh had a difficult time creating a "dirtbag"-boy look on Styles. "I tried to create a lank head of hair on Harry Styles, and I couldn't," McIntosh says. "No matter how much I tried to flatten it down, it just wouldn't do it. It's just so naturally voluminous."
Her solution was to create a partial hairpiece that was intentionally thinned on the top, while Thorisdottir's team added a separate scalp piece "just in case we were to see through the hair."
"And then later on when he doesn't look like he's cut his hair for two or three years — the long, stringy, nasty head of hair," McIntosh adds with a laugh. "Harry really leaned into it, too. It was a lot of fun for him. I think he hadn't done any kind of character work with hair makeup and stuff before, so that was cool."
