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By now, you’ll have undoubtedly heard about The Substance — one of the talked-about films of the 12 months.It’s the critically acclaimed physique horror thriller starring Demi Moore as an growing older Hollywood star who takes a black-market drug known as the Substance, which spawns a youthful, “higher” model of herself known as Sue, performed by Margaret Qualley.The Substance cleverly examines themes of poisonous magnificence requirements, and even should you’ve not seen it but, you’ll most likely have heard that there are a ton of very graphic scenes involving blood, nudity, and physique disfigurement.Impressively, the movie depends totally on sensible results slightly than CGI. Nonetheless, this did imply that each Demi and Margaret spent rather a lot of time within the make-up chair whereas capturing was underway.Across the time of the movie’s launch in September, Demi instructed Leisure Weekly concerning the grueling course of, revealing some shoot days started with over 9 hours of prosthetics work — with as much as 14 items “glued” to only her face alone.And now, Margaret has opened up about her prosthetics expertise and the long-term impression it had on her pores and skin.Chatting with Josh Horowitz on the most recent episode of his Joyful Unhappy Confused podcast, Margaret revealed that her face needed to be cropped out of sure pictures that had been filmed in the direction of the tip of the shoot as a result of, by that point, she’d developed such unhealthy “zits from the prosthetics.”Noting that it took “a 12 months to recuperate, bodily,” Margaret mentioned her pores and skin issues lingered whereas she was capturing her subsequent film, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Sorts of Kindness. However as a result of she was taking part in 4 totally different characters within the movie, she mentioned the zits was “type of excellent.”