Melissa McCarthy's Oscar dress costume designer: "It was, I want to say, 52 bunnies in 48 hours"

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Costume designer Katja Cahill enlisted five people to buy bunnies from shops all over the city, including CVS pharmacy, to create McCarthy's dress. Cahill says McCarthy told her, “I loved The Favourite. I want to do the Queen Anne cloak. I want bunnies trailing behind me, just over-the-top, wild.” Cahill also describes racing against time to get McCarthy and Brian Tyree Henry dressed in their costumes.