Margaret Qualley reveals her skin took a whole year to recover from the prosthetics used in The Substance
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Margaret Qualley has revealed that she suffered from lasting side effects following her extensive use of prosthetics in body horror film The Substance. The film has been a hit with audiences and critics alike, with the movie racking up several nominations during this current award season.
![[It turns out there was a slight price to pay for Andie MacDowell's daughter, 30, as she opened up about the impact filming took on her skin]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/16/94127277-14288435-image-a-42_1736958845279.jpg)
However, it turns out there was a price to pay for Andie MacDowell's daughter, 30, as she opened up about the impact filming took on her skin. She has recalled the issues she faced while working on her next film, Kinds of Kindness, where she had to play a number of different characters.
![[Reflecting on how long it took for her skin to clear up from acne breakouts, she explained: 'It took me probably, like, a year to recover physically from all of it']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/17/94127285-14288435-Reflecting_on_how_long_it_took_for_her_skin_to_clear_up_from_acn-m-23_1736962790228.jpg)
The Maid star explained to Happy Sad Confused podcast host Josh Horowitz: 'You know the character that has, like, all the acne, that was just my acne from the prosthetics. 'And I was like, "Oh, this is actually kinda perfect. Like, I'm playing all these different characters. For one of them, we'll really use all my crazy prosthetic acne."'.
![[The gory body horror flick also stars Demi Moore, who has previously spoken about how tasking it was to film with the prosthetics]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/16/94125033-14288435-image-a-21_1736956867766.jpg)
Margaret Qualley has revealed that she suffered from lasting side effects following her extensive use of prosthetics in body horror film, The Substance. It turns out there was a slight price to pay for Andie MacDowell's daughter, 30, as she opened up about the impact filming took on her skin.
![[The Substance tells the story of a star whose career is on the decline because of her advancing age. She starts using The Substance to create a younger version of herself]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/17/89913091-14288435-The_Substance_tells_the_story_of_a_star_whose_career_is_on_the_d-a-22_1736961410695.jpg)
Reflecting on how long it took for her skin to return to normal, she continued: 'It took me probably a year to recover physically from all of it. 'When they're shooting up my skirt at the end, or in the beginning credits, when it's the palm trees all around, and they have all these long lenses from the bottom, that's just because my face was so f**ked up by that time that they couldn't shoot my face anymore.'.
