In conversation: costume designer Joanna Eatwell
Joanna shares over 30 years' experience in costume design.
In this podcast we hear from costume designer Joanna Eatwell, lead designer on the landmark BBC adaptation Wolf Hall starring Mark Rylance and Damien Lewis.
“Tell the story through the costumes. Don’t make them photographs.” - Joanna Eatwell
She tells us how she “fell into” costume design - initially training in theatre and moving on to work in music videos - but now with nearly thirty years’ experience under her belt, she describes it as the best job in the world.
A page in Joanna's Wolf Hall workbook
Joanna’s wide body of work ranges from films like Hawking starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll, the biography of Ian Dury. She was nominated for a BAFTA and a Royal Television Society Award for her work on the film Eric & Ernie, and she has also worked on TV series like Channel 4’s The Mill and BBC One’s The Paradise.
Joanna Eatwell workbook of Wolf Hall