Out of all the movie and tv ice sculptures we’ve done, one experience with a production stands out a bit. It was our first in Louisiana, and we were asked to make a sculpture for All the King’s Men (the gator head in the gallery above) The interesting part for us, apart from visiting the set at Jackson Barracks, was that props initially asked for a pelican with its pouch hollowed out to hold all the Ponchatoula strawberries that you see in the gator’s mouth. We explained that the pouch would be too small to hold many strawberries unless you made an absolutely HUGE pelican. So, we suggested a gator head instead, and thus had a very visible effect on the final production. Interestingly, we weren’t the only ones who noticed. Before we got to see it, we didn’t have to guess if our sculpture was going to make it the final cut of the movie. At least one reviewer mentioned the ice sculpture in their review. Overall, it wasn’t a very complimentary review, but as one of “a few interesting images of Southern decadence,” we seem to have been a highlight 🤔 We’ll take that! 😜
If you’d like to see our ice in “action” (melting, perhaps?), check out the clips below:
