Margaret Qualley Says Her Skin Took 1 Year to Recover from 'The Substance' Prosthetics

Margaret Qualley is detailing the severe effect the prosthetics she wore for The Substance had on her skin.

While appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast on Monday (January 13), the 30-year-old Golden Globe nominee revealed that her skin became so damaged from the prosthetics that her face was cut from certain shots while filming.

Keep reading to find out more…“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–ked up by that time that they couldn’t, like, shoot my face anymore,” Margaret explained.

The acne lasted long after filming for The Substance ended and continued when she began working on her next movie Kinds of Kindness, in which she played four different characters.

“So, you know the character that has all that acne? That was just my acne from the prosthetics,” Margaret revealed. “And I was like, ‘Oh this is kind of perfect. I’m playing all these different characters — for one of them we’ll use all my crazy prosthetic acne.’ It took me probably a year to recover physically from all of it.”

In another recent interview, Margaret shared what type of movie roles she wants to take on next.