By Alex Murray Writer Growing up in a two-bedroom trailer at Six Nations packed with seven family members, Canadian Screen Award-nominated makeup artist Mikey Elliott\u2019s upbringing was tough\u2014but he never wanted for creativity. Elliott, who is Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan, said because he \u201cgrew up with not a lot,\u201d he and his brothers had to rely on their imaginations to entertain themselves. \u201cWe would play pretend a lot, me and my brothers. We would go off in the woods and basically pretend that we were in Lord of the Rings or Star Wars,\u201d Elliott told Turtle Island News. \u201cWe would grab whatever sticks we could out of the forest and pretend we had swords and lightsabers and whatnot.\u201d A couple of decades later, Elliott had swapped his swords and lightsabers… <\/p>\n
By Alex Murray Writer Growing up in a two-bedroom trailer at Six Nations packed with seven family members, Canadian Screen Award-nominated makeup artist Mikey Elliott\u2019s upbringing was tough\u2014but he never wanted for creativity. Elliott, who is Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan, said because he \u201cgrew up with not a lot,\u201d he and his brothers had to rely on their imaginations to entertain themselves. \u201cWe would play pretend a lot, me and my brothers. We would go off in the woods and basically pretend that we were in Lord of the Rings or Star Wars,\u201d Elliott told Turtle Island News. \u201cWe would grab whatever sticks we could out of the forest and pretend we had swords and lightsabers and whatnot.\u201d A couple of decades later, Elliott had swapped his swords and lightsabers... <\/p>\n