{"id":51555,"date":"2026-11-14T03:34:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/inside-the-y2k-costumes-and-sets-of-kelly-osullivan-and-alex-thompsons-mouse\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T03:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:34:58","slug":"inside-the-y2k-costumes-and-sets-of-kelly-osullivan-and-alex-thompsons-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/inside-the-y2k-costumes-and-sets-of-kelly-osullivan-and-alex-thompsons-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Y2K Costumes and Sets of Kelly O\u2019Sullivan and Alex Thompson\u2019s \u2018Mouse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The making of <em>Mouse<\/em> gave some Arkansas mothers a very good reason to have kept their daughters\u2019 prom dresses. Costume designer Meg Grace put out a call on Facebook; in the week before the school-dance sequence was filmed, a member of her team drove around town collecting gowns, filling a van. Altogether, they gathered some 50 dresses worn to proms between 2000 and 2003. \u201cIt felt like a time warp,\u201d Grace says of seeing them on the actors.<\/p>\n<p>That flicker of recognition runs through the funny, affecting film from <em>Ghostlight<\/em> directors Kelly O\u2019Sullivan and Alex Thompson. Set in 2002 in O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s hometown of North Little Rock, Arkansas, <em>Mouse<\/em> follows Minnie (Katherine Mallen Kupferer), a teenager accustomed to living in the shadow of her charismatic best friend, Callie (Chloe Coleman). After Callie\u2019s sudden death, Minnie gravitates toward her friend\u2019s poised mother, Helen (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.co.uk\/article\/sophie-okonedo-london-film-festival\">Sophie Okonedo<\/a>), and the inviting home she has long preferred to her own. Their bond grows more complicated, shaped by affection, grief, and that familiar teenage longing to be someone else.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mouse<\/em> is particularly attuned to how a teenager\u2019s dissatisfaction can attach itself to almost anything: imperfect skin,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/how-mouse-gets-the-early-2000s-so-right\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The making of Mouse gave some Arkansas mothers a very good reason to have kept their daughters\u2019 prom dresses. Costume designer Meg Grace put out a call on Facebook; in the week before the school-dance sequence was filmed, a member of her team drove around town collecting gowns, filling a van. Altogether, they gathered some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2665,36],"class_list":["post-51555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netbuzz","tag-culture-tv-movies","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}