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    "articleBody": "Alexander Skarsgård spent his days on the Wicker set inside a woven body built half a world away in New Zealand, and almost nothing about it was computer-made. Wētā Workshop, the Wellington effects house, says it designed and built the Wicker Husband as a fully practical fabricated suit with full facial prosthetic makeup, and that most of his shots in the finished film use little or no CGI. The detail helps explain why a $10 million fable about a fisherwoman who orders a husband from the village basket weaver has become one of the stranger crowd-pleasers of the fall. Reviews have been strong, and the film has now taken about $31 million worldwide. A husband built by hand Wicker is adapted from Ursula Wills’s short story “The Wicker Husband” and was written and directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson. Olivia Colman plays the Fisherwoman, Peter Dinklage the Basket Weaver who makes her a spouse, and Skarsgård the man of willow who turns up at the chapel a month later. Dev Patel was originally attached to the role before Skarsgård replaced him. On its project page, Wētā Workshop says it handled the character from early concept design all the way to the set. The practical effects were led by its prosthetic makeup designer Joe Dunckley, with Sarah Rubano, the lead makeup effects artist, applying the makeup. The company says the team used new materials and processes developed in its own workshop. Dunckley has gone further about what that means. “To our knowledge, they’re the very first 3D-modelled and digitally printed makeup appliances to be seen in film,” he said of the pieces. Where the computers came in The studio is open about the small amount of digital help. Sound design and a light touch of visual effects were added for specific moments, it says, including points of light shining through the weave to show the audience that the husband is hollow inside. Everything else Skarsgård wore was physically there in front of the camera. Art director Rebeckah Tisch framed the look as a piece of craftsmanship inside the story itself. “We tried to always make it look bespoke and designed as pieces that fit together in the mind of a craftsman, to show the masterful craft of the basketweaver,” she said. From Sundance to the multiplex For readers catching up, here is how the film got here: September 2025: filming wraps in Budapest January 24, 2026: world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah February 2026: Black Bear Pictures picks up North American rights October 18, 2026: closes the Sitges Film Festival in Spain October 23 and 30, 2026: US and UK theatrical releases November 5, 2026: Australian release We covered the film’s first weekend in our report on Wicker’s $5.75 million opening with Skarsgård as a woven husband. Since then the money has kept coming: on Badiyaa’s math, a $31 million worldwide gross is a little over three times the reported $10 million budget, and more than five times what the film took in its first US weekend. A busy season for Skarsgård The Swedish actor, who has built a career on physically demanding roles, is lining up another unusual part. He stars with Hunter Schafer in a drama produced by Ari Aster, covered in our story on The Confessions, the nun drama with Skarsgård and Schafer. Wicker’s critics have singled out the creature work too. The consensus on one major review aggregator, where 94% of 196 reviews are positive, singles out its creature effects alongside Colman’s performance. Its next stop is the Hollywood Music in Media Awards on November 18, 2026, where Anna Meredith’s score is nominated. Further reading Wikipedia: Wicker (film) Image: Peter Kudlacz, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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