I Genuinely Cannot Watch "The Substance" The Same Way After Learning These 17 Fascinating Facts

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"It was a certain kind of madness," Demi told Variety. "There are three setups to that scene, and easily 15 takes for each. Also, the idea of looking at yourself in the mirror and seeing only what’s wrong — it’s like you’re seeking to make yourself uglier, so you can look how you feel."

She added, "I got to a point where I couldn’t do it anymore. And Coralie still wanted one more take. The makeup artist stepped in and said, 'We’re done.'"

“My concern was she’s going to hurt herself. At the end, I did something that I never did on a movie, ever. I told Coralie, ‘That’s enough. You cannot do it anymore because she’s going to have a rash all around the face’,” prosthetics designer Pierre-Olivier Persin recalled.

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