JAKARTA - Recently, Margaret Qualley, an actress known for her role in the film The Substance, opened up her personal experience which was quite surprising.
In an episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast broadcast on January 13, the 30-year-old talks honestly about the impact of the prosthetic use of the film The Substance on her skin.
In the interview, Qualley revealed that his skin was badly damaged, so some scenes showing his face had to be removed.
"In the end, when they took pictures of my skirt in the opening scene, with palm trees around it and long lenses from below, it was because my face was so damaged that they could no longer take pictures of my face," said Qualley, quoted by VOI from the People page on Wednesday, January 15, 2025.
The acne problem continued after filming the film The Substance was over. In fact, the acne was still there when he started working in the next film entitled Kinds of Kindness.
"So you know the character who has severe acne? It's just my acne from prosthetics," said Qualley.
"And I thought, 'Oh this is perfect enough. I play all these characters, one of them will use all the prosthetic acne, crazy me.' It took about a year for me to recover physically from everything," he said.
However, intense facial makeup isn't the only thing Qualley has to go through, as she turns into Sue's character at The Substance.
In an interview in September 2024 with The Sunday Times, he admitted to wearing fake breasts, because director Coralie Fargeat likened his character to an 80s-era bombshell icon with a figure like Jessica Rabbit.
"Unfortunately, there is no magic concoction for the breasts, so I have to attach it. Coralie found an amazing prosthetic team to give me a lifelong breast look, just not my own life," he said.
Qualley's co-star, Demi Moore, who won her first Golden Globe on January 5 for her role as Elisabethaire, is also undergoing a dramatic transformation.
With the use of prosthetics depicting wrinkles and other dramatic facial features to tell the dangerous beauty standards and the extreme steps taken to achieve his wish again.
In an earlier interview with the Los Angeles Times, the two stars spoke of the use of prosthetics by Pierre Olivier Persin, a makeup artist SFX. The artist created Monstro, a mix of Moore and Qualley characters.
"I was in there, with a face Demi pasted on my own body," Qualley told the media.
"I was alone in that case. I kept hitting something. It was like a chamber of torture. A lot of my videos at the time were like, 'I can't do it anymore.' It lasted eight days. I know it didn't look much." he continued.
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