In Josh Horowitz’s podcast, “Happy Sad Confused”, broadcast Monday January 13, 2025, Margaret Qualley revealed the unexpected consequence that the filming of “The Substance”, by Coralie Fargeat, had on her. “It probably took me a year to physically recover from all that,” she slipped.
It took some spectators a while to get over it. “The Substance”, by Coralie Fargeat, is certainly one of the most striking, if not the most traumatic, films of the year 2024. Margaret Qualley, who opposite Demi Moore, won a Golden Globe for her performance – to the delight of her daughters – also took time to recover from filming, for a very specific reason.
In Josh Horowitz’s podcast, “Happy Sad Confused”, broadcast Monday January 13, 2025, Margaret Qualley revealed that her face was damaged by the prosthetics she wore on the set of “The Substance”. To the point that his face had to be cut from certain shots of the film. “At the end, when they film up my skirt before the credits, and you see the palm trees all around, it’s just because my face was totally fucked up. At that point, they couldn’t film my face anymore,” she explained.
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Margaret Qualley: her “crazy acne” after filming “The Substance”
Margaret Qualley then had acne problems which lasted for several months, while she began filming another film “Kinds of Kindness”, by Yórgos Lánthimos. “See the character who has all that acne? It was just my acne from the prosthetics,” revealed the actress, who plays four different characters in the film – Vivian, Martha, Ruth and Rebecca. “I was like, ‘Oh, this is pretty perfect. I’m playing all these different characters – for one of them we’ll use all my crazy prosthetic acne.” »
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After filming “Kinds of Kindness”, it was more annoying. “It probably took me a year to physically recover from all that,” said Margaret Qualley, who wore several prosthetics for “The Substance,” including fake breasts, to have a body worthy of Jessica Rabbit. “Unfortunately, there is no magic potion for breasts, so we had to glue them,” she said in a previous interview with the Sunday Times, praising the work of the team of prosthetists.
