((PKG))&nbsp; PIA&mdash;KAZUHIRO TSUJI / PART 2 
((Banner:&nbsp; Art and Life))
((Executive Producer:&nbsp; Marsha James))

((Camera:&nbsp; Kaveh Rezaei))
((Map:&nbsp; Washington, D.C.))&nbsp; 

((NATS))

((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor &amp; Special Effects Makeup Artist))&nbsp;
Since I had a really bad childhood, I always had the kind of feeling of anxiety and guilty because my parents never praised me and so, I never had the feeling of accomplishment. &nbsp;But I had this passion of I need to prove myself. &nbsp;I could do something amazing.&nbsp;
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor &amp; Special Effects Makeup Artist))&nbsp;

After I started to work in the film industry, I felt like my body started to fall apart and also my mind too and I felt like I&#39;m almost trapped. &nbsp;That was a moment I felt like okay, I need help, I need to change.&nbsp;
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor &amp; Special Effects Makeup Artist))&nbsp;

So, when I start to create a large size portrait, my feeling changed a lot. &nbsp;The big difference was the film job. &nbsp;It&#39;s all about waiting, waiting for something to happen, but art is quite different. &nbsp;I need to be the one to make something happen everyday.
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor &amp; Special Effects Makeup Artist))&nbsp;

Beginning of 2016, (actor) Gary Oldman, he wrote to me and said there is a project he wants me to work on. &nbsp;He said, okay, this is about Winston Churchill.&nbsp; I know you are retired but I really want you to do a design on it.&nbsp; I wasn&#39;t sure if I should do it. &nbsp;If I take film job right away, I felt like I&#39;m betraying my life decision. &nbsp;But I never had a chance to work on the film with the main character has makeup on, portraying a historical person.&nbsp; I felt like okay, if I say no to this, I will regret.&nbsp; So, I came back to Gary and said okay, I would like to take this job.
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor &amp; Special Effects Makeup Artist))&nbsp;

The whole process to create the Churchill makeup was, it took about almost five months. &nbsp;By the time that the film was ended, I was like, oh my God, I worked on this amazing thing. &nbsp;I was a part of it. &nbsp;I never felt this way in my whole career.&nbsp;
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor &amp; Special Effects Makeup Artist))&nbsp;

I wanted to make sure that everybody involved will be nominated because there&#39;s sometimes in the past, I was, kind of, knocked out from a group of nominated people.
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor &amp; Special Effects Makeup Artist))&nbsp;

The day of the Oscar, I don&#39;t remember much because I was so nervous and my goal was just go there and finish speech and be done with it.&nbsp; I was interviewed after receiving Oscar, how I feel about receiving this as Asian. &nbsp;I don&#39;t think that way. &nbsp;I received this as one human being. &nbsp;It&#39;s not as an Asian and as soon as I start to think I&#39;m Asian, I will fail.&nbsp; I think it&#39;s each person&#39;s responsibility to live as one human being and not to be conditioned by the label you put on the color of your skin.&nbsp; All people who succeeded,&nbsp;they go beyond that.&nbsp; You know, it&#39;s not what the outside look like.&nbsp; What&#39;s inside really matters.&nbsp;
((Kazuhiro Tsui, Hyperrealist Sculptor &amp; Special Effects Makeup Artist))&nbsp;
I hope I can use my life and contribute to creativity. &nbsp;I still struggle.&nbsp; You know, I still have some issues or problems but I won&#39;t stop learning until I die. &nbsp;You know, that&#39;s the way it is, I think.&nbsp;

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