Catriona on the making her Madame Tussauds wax figure: 'It's a whole other level of awareness'

Catriona Gray's Madame Tussauds wax figure has finally been unveiled on Wednesday, making the First and only Filipino to be represented at Madame Tussauds Singapore.

It features Cat at her Miss Universe winning moment, wearing a replica of her iconic lava gown, which Filipino designer Mak Tumang created just for the wax figure.   

According to the Miss Universe 2018, the sitting process took long with a number of processes to ensure every inch of the figure will be accurate. 

“There was 3D photography, photographs from every angle you could think of,” she said. “There were even colorists that would match the color of my skin, eyeballs, hair, nail polish.”

“They even asked for the brand of lipstick that I wore or even the color of my nail polish or even asked for the shoes and accessories so I gave them replicas of that,” she added.

Cat describes the sitting process as "a little bit nerve-racking in a way that the pose that you're going to hold is going to be immoratalized."

"It's a whole other level of awareness that comes into the sitting," she continued.

Describing the Madame Tussauds Singapore team as reassuring, the beauty queen-turned recording artist said "they really guided me through the process and it was really interesting to see how they go about creating wax figures and just the level of intricacy and detail that they really put into every single wax figure."

"I'm in awe looking at them working on mine," Cat added.

"To be here at Madame Tussauds Singapore as the only Filipino, it's my hope that my fellow kababayans, fellow Filipinos walk these halls, that they feel a sense of pride because that's the emotion I carried on the Miss Universe stage," she said at the launch.

With her own wax figure a Madame Tussauds, Cat joins Pia Wurzbach and Manny Pacquiao as the only three Filipinos to be featured in the museum. Pia's and Manny's can be found in Madame Tussauds Hong Kong, while Catriona Gray's will stand at Madame Tussauds Singapore beginning Thursday, March 31. — LA, GMA News