Whenever you watch a movie or a television show, the food always looks amazing. Even if you aren’t hungry, you start craving whatever the characters are eating. Have you ever wondered, though, what it took to make all that food? Or if the food you saw was even real?
Insider shared a video giving us the secrets of how realistic fake foods are made for movies and television. TV shows and movies try to use real food on screen, when possible, but there are many reasons why there is a need to use food props instead of actual food.
When you start to dissect a film crew, there are a lot more people involved than you might think. There is a job for almost every detail involved in making a film or TV show. There is the option to order fake food items in bulk from companies, but most of the time, movies need food items that are specially made. That is when they bring in a fake food artist.
Insider gives us a glance into the work of fake food artist Lisa Friedman. Lisa went to school for art, and she has a passion for cooking and baking. Lisa goes on to tell viewers that there are in fact not a lot of people in the art world who do this kind of work.
Along with Lisa Friedman, Brenda Chapman owns her own fake food business based in Oklahoma called Just Dough It! Both women work out of their own studios in their homes.
Brenda informed Insider that she has made almost $3 million in the last 20 years creating fake food. She has had her work featured in many productions. Some examples are The Santa Clause 3, Glee, and The Muppets.
Insider then takes viewers into the world and creative process of Lisa Friedman at her home in New York to show us what it takes to be a fake food artist.
To see the amazing process of making fake foods, click the video!
