Margaret Qualley Shares How the Prosthetics Affected Her Appearance

Let's have a big round of applause for Margaret Qualley, who has just qualified for membership into the League of Actors Who Made Extreme, Lasting Physical Changes for a Role. Usually, these actors are men who've either gained a ton of weight to play a superhero or men who've lost a ton of weight to play the lead in an Oscar-bait film. But what about Qualley, who sacrificed her skin for a year for The Substance?

Qualley went on the Happy Sad Confused podcast in January, and confessed that the prosthetics she wore in The Substance messed up her skin so bad that by the end of filming they had to find ways to avoid shooting her face.

“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