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“We’ve got to rationalize visual interest in a world where people don’t have vision,” special makeup effects designer Toby Lindala tells Gold Derby in his exclusive interview about why “See” was “a tricky show” (watch the video above). He explains with reference to the group led by Jason Momoa‘s Baba Voss, “A lot of the Alkenny characters had scarification, but scarification was initially developed to identify tribes that were born under a certain king, so it was like a national census, but we had to find a reason for that that wasn’t going to be a visual need ⁠— a need to see it, so we went really internal.” This justification was supported by what Lindala learned from the show’s blindness consultant. He reveals, “Another thing that doesn’t happen for people with blindness is facial identification. They don’t do a lot of face touching...