But what about Qualley, who sacrificed her skin for a year forThe Substance?
This wasnt a problem that stopped as soon asThe Substancewrapped, either.
So you know the character that has all that acne?
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That was just my acne from the prosthetics, she said.
And I was like, Oh this is kind of perfect.
Im playing all these different charactersfor one of them well use all my crazy prosthetic acne.
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It took me probably a year to recover physically from all of it.
An actor messing up her face for amovie about impossible beauty standards in Hollywood?
And then using that acne for character development in another movie?
That is method acting on a plane that male actors havent even dreamed of.
