His Earthly name may be Matt Adams, but to the rest of the galaxy he’s The Maskalorian, a helmeted hero handing our masks to those in need of facial coverings. Accompanied by his faithful friend Masku, they have together handed out over 1000 masks. between Austria and New York.
Adams came up with the idea in the early days of the pandemic. As an ex-New Yorker living in Austria, his wife’s home country, he was missing interactions with strangers and was reading about people who were strongly opposed to wearing masks.
“I just kind of wanted to see, I wonder if I can encourage people in a playful and humorous way,” he said.
He set to work assembling a wardrobe of a bounty hunter in space: flight suit, cape, shoulder armor, gauntlet-style gloves, belt, chest plate. A costume he found online had most of the parts, but the latex mask that came with it didn’t fit the bill. It took a few tries to land the right helmet and a few versions of The Child to get the right size. His mother-in-law made a Masku-sized mask on her sewing machine.
