‘M3GAN 2.0’ Costume Designer Breaks Down Killer New Style (Unique)

M3GAN ranges up for her return to the large display screen, and her high-tech wardrobe needed to match.

Costume designer Jeriana San Juan rose to the problem for M3GAN 2.0, taking up a mission to protect the killer robotic’s sassy character that was cemented within the authentic, which turned a viral sensation in 2022.

“It actually was about increasing and maturing that picture a bit. Within the first movie, she’s designed as a doll, as a robotic companion for slightly lady,” San Juan tells PEOPLE. “How is M3GAN going to mature was actually on the forefront of our questions. It was simply an unbelievable journey and so enjoyable.”

The undertaking was not like different assignments for the Emmy-nominated costumer, recognized for her work on movies like On Swift Horses and The Mom, plus collection like Halston and The Sinner.

Says San Juan, “After I work with actors to develop costumes, it is a lot of a dialog and collaboration between performer and director. However creating M3GAN, in quite a lot of methods, there was no enter from a performer. That was a novel factor in creating this.”

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Coaching Leap Go well with

Throughout a coaching sequence halfway by the movie, M3GAN sports activities a blue leap go well with to apply her Wing Chun strikes.

“The inspiration for that basically got here from ’70s Kung Fu films,” says San Juan. For the character’s first outfit of the film, it “actually was a solution to begin the reinvention of M3GAN by reinterpreting the stripe in her bow from the primary film and turning it into an athletic stripe that runs down the facet of her jumpsuit. It was a solution to pop off with a complete new vibe.”

Cyberpunk Disguise

For the sequence during which M3GAN has to infiltrate a tech conference, she goes undercover as one of many dancing performers. A robotic disguised as a human dressed as a robotic — sustain with us!

“It is meant to be this super-meta assertion about what people assume robots appear to be,” says San Juan. “We wished it to really feel slightly type of clunky and obtuse and type of a imaginative and prescient of the long run in a retro means.”

The designer pulled references from Robocop and The Jetsons, plus late-’80s and ’90s Mugler for the look.

“I wished to go to city with the idea of one thing that type of fetishizes expertise on some stage. And my thoughts went to these late-’90s Mac bubble computer systems and the see-through tech of the Y2K second.”

The pink surfaces exhibits a system of circuit boards and microchips beneath — which truly labored and ran on a battery. San Juan says the costume is “in all probability extra advanced than even a Marvel superhero” outfit.

“We might remotely management how shiny or dim it turned as a result of it is a circuit board of lights that is working beneath the floor,” she says. “Then it additionally had to have the ability to combat and leap and take a tough fall and needed to be worn by the numerous M3GAN [actresses].”

BASE-Leaping Wing Go well with

“Don’t do this one at dwelling,” warns San Juan of the daredevil BASE-jumping wing go well with. “This one was designed only for the flicks. Individuals will be unable to fly in the event that they recreate this.”

“We had initially designed all types of loopy campy issues. The explanation this turned a navy blue wing go well with is finally as a result of we wished to experience this very good edge between reasonable horror and comedy. It is a very cautious steadiness,” says San Juan. “And on this second of this A.I. robotic teenage doll leaping off of a mountain, the thought of her finally dressing for tactical perform and having the ability to disguise herself at evening by it being a darkish blue and mix into the sky was actually what drove it.”

Nonetheless, San Juan was capable of “get slightly campy” with the goggles, which she calls “enjoyable, blown-out and ’60s-looking.” The glasses are “one-of-a-kind, for positive.”

Finale Cat Go well with

For M3GAN’s last showdown together with her superior A.I. nemesis AMELIA, she dons a leather-based cat go well with, just like a bike go well with — and full with a set of six-pack abs.

The group wished one thing that “felt very badass and formidable. One thing that feels prefer it helps her on a tactical stage to optimize her motion and what she’s meant to do, but additionally type of by the way be cool.”

“The facet panels are handled with this sort of smocking results to accordion the material so it type of is smart {that a} robotic would be capable of pull this on,” says San Juan, who provides that she took inspo from ’60s and ’70s sci-fi appears to be like.

“And I did indulge within the little abs. Her quilted abs had been a solution to simply throw slightly kick of fashion meets perform,” she says. “She’s a badass and he or she’s powerful.”

AMELIA’s Ultimate Robotic Look

Retro futurism and automobiles from the Sixties formed the aesthetic of AMELIA’s robotic embodiment.

Moreover, “the thought of creating her chrome and following these artwork deco strains was actually the purpose, to create one thing that feels futuristic but additionally type of nostalgic on the similar second. The clear visor and the ears and the form of her head actually got here out of incorporating these concepts.”

Oh, and he or she’s received spring-loaded wedges on her heels. The place’d that come from? San Juan actually requested a man-made intelligence bot what it will put on.

“One among my first issues I did for this undertaking was discover a solution to get on A.I. and ask it what it will put on if it was human,” she says. “Its reply to me was finally that it will optimize motion as a lot as potential to realize its goal. It talked about carrying sneakers that might optimize working and strolling. So these sneakers actually had been impressed by this concept that her heel would have a spring in order that when she ran, she would be capable of spring ahead and run quicker than any human ever might.”

M3GAN 2.0 is in theaters now.