Kevin Hughes: Movie Prop Master
Kevin Hughes makes a career out of putting things in their place
By Brian Malik
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/producing/article/kevin_hughes_movie_prop_master_20071227/
Just about anything an actor touches in a film that isn’t nailed down is a prop. Props serve to enhance a character’s backstory, improve the look of a location or, in the case of fake projectile vomit, simply gross out the audience. The talented artists who furnish the canvas of cinema with their treasures are called property masters. MM spoke with Kevin Hughes, an industry veteran who began his career as an assistant on Apocalypse Now, and more recently has worked on such films as Boogie Nights, Borat and Bobby.