Whitfield and Roddenberry shared another amusing anecdote about the shooting: As the image formed on the film, he kept saying to himself, ‘My God, this woman is green!’ And so he kept correcting the film developing process in order to turn her back to normal skin color again!” The technician over at the film lab would receive the film every day and run it through the development solution. We had her so green you couldn’t believe it and she kept coming back pink! Finally we figured out what was happening. Recalling the incident, he says, “We did this three days in a row. Gene’s orders to Fred Phillips: “Paint her greener!” The following day the test film again showed her as pink skinned as ever. Imagine everyone’s surprise, upon viewing the developed film the next day, to find the actress’ face just as normally pink skinned as ever! There was no trace of green." He did a thorough job with the makeup and was quite satisfied with the results. "Now, Fred Phillips is an exceptionally fine makeup artist and recognized as a top pro in the business. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry recalled in The Making of Star Trek (1968) how Phillips grew increasingly frustrated as three consecutive makeup screen tests, in which Roddenberry’s future wife Majel Barrett had been painted green, came back negative. The “green girl” was the creation of Fred Phillips who also made Spock’s Vulcan look for the original Star Trek television series.
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