Margaret Qualley’s skin went through a lot on the set of The Substance.
In a Jan. 13 episode of Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Golden Globe nominee, 30, got real about the effects wearing prosthetics for the film had on her skin.
At one point during the interview, the actress said her skin became so damaged that her face was even cut from certain shots.
“Like, at the end, when they’re shooting up my skirt in the beginning credits, and it’s like the palm trees all around and they have all these long lenses from the bottom, that’s just because my face was so f—ed up by that time that they couldn’t, like, shoot my face anymore,” Qualley shared.
Her acne lasted after filming for The Substance wrapped and continued when she began working on her next film, Kinds of Kindness.
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