Margaret Qualley opens up about severe acne triggered by film prosthetics

Margaret Qualley opened up about severe skin conditions from The Substance prosthetics.

In a recent on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, the 30-year-old actress detailed the after-effects of the film's heavy makeup on her skin.

The skin was damaged to the point that a few scenes did not make it to the final cut due to 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 so f***** up by that time that they couldn't, like, shoot my face anymore,” Qualley told the host.

It took almost a year for the Golden Globe nominee to recover from the skin damage.

“So, you know the character that has all that acne? That was just my acne from the prosthetics,” noted Qualley

“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," she added.

In a previous interview with The Sunday Times,  Qualley revealed that she also wore fake boobs to portray the role of Sue in The Substance.

“Unfortunately, there is no magic boob potion, so we had to glue those on,” she said at the time