Callum Vinson Discusses Time Spent Getting Into The Jason Voorhees Makeup For Crystal Lake Series

There is a lot of excitement building around the release of Crystal Lake next week on October 15th. This week there has been a storm of media publicity regarding the streaming series as Episode 1 screened at the New York Comic Con last night and the cast was available for interviews throughout the day. Showrunner and Executive Producer Brad Caleb Kane has been great in his interviews thus far, but for young actor Callum Vinson this is his first time speaking about his involvement in the Friday The 13th show and he offered insight into his makeup process.

About The Jason Voorhees Makeup

While being interviewed by TV Line, Callum was asked how long it took to get the prosthetics on to become Jason Voorhees. Callum mentioned the original casting of his head took about 4.5 hours. The original make-up test for Brad with actual prosthetics first took 3 hours to apply. Eventually, the makeup team worked to apply the prosthetics within nearly 1.5 hours for the day-to-day filming.

Brad offered up more information that the prosthetic makeup weighed eighteen pounds and that ventilation was eventually built into the prosthetics by effects artist Dave Presto to help Callum during the hot days of Summer 2025.

Watch the full interview below for those details and more from the rest of the cast of Crystal Lake.

The full eight-episode season of Crystal Lake premieres on Peacock (U.S.) on October 15, 2026 (all episodes at once and 60 minutes in length each); also, on Sky Atlantic/NOW in the UK/Ireland, HBO Max across Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and Crave in Canada.

Crystal Lake stars Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees, with Callum Vinson as young Jason Voorhees, plus William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins, Gwendolyn Sundstrom, and others (including Nick Cordileone as Crazy Ralph). 

Brad Caleb Kane is executive producing Crystal Lake together with A24 and an executive producing team that includes Marc Toberoff and Victor Miller (Friday 13th LLC), Robert M. Barsamian and Robert P. Barsamian (Horror Inc.), Stuart Manashil, Tyson Bidner, Michael Lennox and Roy Lee