‘Chernobyl’ costumes have been given to frontline staff to use as personal protective equipment amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The costume designers behind the HBO series are donating costumes from the show to key workers.
Javier Toledo, CEO of Peris Costumes, which also works on the likes of ‘The Crown’, ‘The Young Pope’ and ‘Vikings’, said: "For ‘Chernobyl’, we bought a lot of plastic protections. Real costumes for protection and we’re lucky we had this so we could help.
"We donated everything. Not only that, but also face covers and everything we could find in our stocks – shoes, and even materials used in real life by doctors and nurses."
The team at Peris Costumes are also offering the services of their workshops to help make masks and aprons for healthcare professionals all over the world, who say they are struggling to get enough PPE to safely treat the sickest people, who are battling the virus.
"We decided first to check what we had in our warehouses, which have a lot of things which are useful coming from different series and productions. Once we found all that we could donate for protection, we decided to use our workshops to produce masks, aprons and other clothes that could help healthcare workers."
‘Chernobyl’ follows the story of the April 1986 nuclear plant disaster, which took place in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. It stars the likes of Jared Harris as Valery Legasov and Stellan Skarsgård as Boris Shcherbina.
Chernobyl costumes given to frontline staff
