![]() So that speaks to why the costumes come out looking really shabby to begin with. All his disguises he’s stolen from theatres, or along the way, and just shoved everything into this Pandora’s box of costumes and disguises. A lot of the reason that the disguises are so filthy and awful is because he’s a filthy awful person. As Season 2 goes along, it becomes more evident that Olaf and the troupe carry a trunk full of disguises. “There’s a nod to Karl Lagerfeld, obviously. But that was mostly because of all the action and the dancing he had to do in that costume. The over-the-knee boots were actually thigh high boots cut down. You’ll notice his nails are terrible all the time, so he asked for fingerless gloves. “The gloves I had for Gunther originally were much more bejeweled they were more like a Michael Jackson glove. Behind the scenes of a Gunther dance sequence. He wears a lot of glasses this season - it’s one way Olaf can disguise that eyebrow and that giant forehead he has. Neil’s hand on that was definitely the glasses. Then Esmé gets her hands on him and we see him next in a pinstripe tailcoat suit. Summers: “Gunther comes in a paisley smoking jacket with jeans and crazy over-the-knee boots. Set in a New York-inspired city, Olaf needs to fit in with the upscale, fashion-obsessed world that Esmé inhabits and so Gunther is Olaf’s cleanest, most pulled-together look of the entire series. It’s the sixth book and is told across Episodes 3 and 4 of Season 2. Olaf becomes Gunther, an auctioneer who teams up with Lucy Punch’s well-to-do Esmé Squalor, in The Ersatz Elevator. Gunther NPH as Olaf in disguise as Gunther, with Lucy Punch's Esmé Squalor. So if you look further down past the bottom of his operating gown you’ll see those trousers and his really funny pointy shoes with his too-short trousers underneath.” 4. It’s that terrible, awful suit he wears all the time with that really disgustingly dirty and hole-ridden Henley he wears underneath. You’ll notice too with him and his henchpeople, with some costumes and in particular this one, if you look farther down, Olaf has a base layer that doesn’t always come off. That is partially to hide the unibrow and also to give a period vibe to it. “We had a headpiece, the giant period magnifying glass on the front. So we went for yellow - the pussy, crusty sort of thing, which is more disgusting, as opposed to red-blood gory. There’s some brown spots but we didn’t want red. ![]() We didn’t want to have a lot of blood because we didn’t want to be super obvious and gory. “A lot of the yellow that’s on it is pus. Our idea was that when they first drive up, there is this laundry truck outside the hospital and the idea is that they got all their disguises from the dirty laundry truck. just dark, because what doctor wears leather into the operating room? The front of his white outfit is obviously dirty it’s never been cleaned. Summers: “We used a faux leather strapping around his neck and his wrists to evoke a straightjacket, or something that’s very binding and a little bit maniacal. Here, Olaf is attempting to pass himself off as the doctor in charge of the hospital. Adopting the guise for episodes 7 and 8, which adapts the eighth book in Daniel Handler - aka Lemony Snicket’s - series of novels, The Hostile Hospital, Medicalschool marks Olaf’s latest attempt to dupe anyone who matters, and get his hands on the Baudelaire children, heirs to their parents’ fortune. Doctor Medicalschool Neil Patrick Harris as Count Olaf in disguise as Dr Mattathias Medicalschool.ĭoctor Mattathias Medicalschool might have the most ridiculously transparent name of all of Count Olaf’s personas – but his costume is the most practically convincing. ![]() FANDOM spoke to series costume designer Cynthia Summers, who filled us in on what it took to bring Olaf’s legendary looks to the screen, and helped us compile this definitive ranking of Olaf’s S2 disguises. They’re dirtier, more degraded and infinitely more inventive. Season 1 brought us the bearded Stephano and fishy Captain Sham but in Season 2, Olaf’s costumes have stepped up a gear. Alongside Neil Patrick Harris’s sublime performance as the evil guardian intent on getting his hands on the Baudelaire fortune, of course. It’s the first time we’ve seen the nefarious actor’s extensive array of costumes brought to life on screen, and some serious attention to detail has made them a standout part of the series. One of the greatest joys of Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events has been Count Olaf’s disguises.
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