Margaret Qualley is opening up about the long-lasting effects she suffered while filming for 'The Substance.' The actress, who plays Sue in the body horror film, recently shared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that her skin was damaged for nearly a year after filming wrapped.
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00:00This is The Substance."
00:08Margaret Qualley is opening up about the long-lasting effects she suffered while
00:12filming for The Substance. The actress, who plays Sue in the Body Horror film,
00:17recently shared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that her skin was damaged for nearly a year after
00:22filming wrapped. She explained,
00:24"'At the end, when they're shooting up my skirt in the beginning credits,
00:27when it's like the palm trees all around and they have all these long lenses from the bottom,
00:31that's just because my face was so f***ed up by that time that they couldn't, like,
00:35shoot my face anymore." The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actress added that she was still
00:39struggling with acne from the prosthetics when she began shooting her next film, Kinds of Kindness.
00:44She noted that one of her characters in the Yorgos Lanthimos film
00:47had acne due to the acne from the prosthetics.
00:50"'I'm playing all these different characters. For one of them,
00:52we'll use all my crazy prosthetic acne. It took me probably a year to recover
00:56physically from all of it.'"
00:58The Substance, also starring Demi Moore and Dennis Quaid,
01:01follows a fading celebrity who takes a black market drug,
01:04a cell-replicating substance, that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
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