Margaret Qualley’s skin took a year to recover after making The Substance
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‘They couldn’t shoot my face anymore,’ said ‘Once Upon in Time in Hollywood’ actor. Margaret Qualley has revealed that the prosthetics she wore for the award-winning film The Substance left lasting damage on her skin. The gory body horror film follows Elisabeth (Demi Moore), a fading movie star who is desperate to turn back the clock on her body. She injects herself with the mystery toxin to make herself look younger, but it comes with dark side effects, and she effectively births a youthful version of herself called Sue (Margaret Qualley).
“You know the character that has, like, all the acne, like, that was just my acne from the prosthetics,” she said. “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.’”.
“It took me probably, like, 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, like, the palm trees all around, and they have, like, 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.”.
Moore has previously spoken about undergoing hours of prosthetic work each day during filming. “It was always an hour and a half to get off. Two hours, roughly,” she said of her routine while they shot the film in Paris in 2022. She continued: “It’s glued. You have to be as careful if not more careful taking it off so you don’t destroy your skin.”.
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