The actress, who stars alongside Demi Moore in the body horror film, says it took "probably a year" for her skin to recover.

Even Margaret Qualley can’t get the haunting visuals of “The Substance” out of her mind.

What was not particularly intended to be a box office blockbuster has become very much so, and both the Maid actress and her co-star Demi Moore have enjoyed plenty of awards season buzz, with the latter earning her first major Hollywood award after over 40 years in the industry.

"It took me probably, like, a year to recover physically from all of it," she told a podcast about the prosthetics used in the film.

Appearing in the latest episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Qualley revealed that the prosthetics were so damaging to her skin that it impacted her next film, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, in which she played several different characters.

Hollywood star Margaret Qualley has revealed that the prosthetics she wore in the critically-acclaimed horror movie “The Substance” caused so much damage to her skin that it took about a year to recover.

Margaret Qualley and Demi Moore were both transformed for their roles in 'The Substance.' According to Qualley, it took her "probably a year to recover physically from all of it."

A body-horror drama led by Demi Moore, 'The Substance' did considerably well at the box office, impressive considering the uncomfortable subject matter

In an interview on the podcast Happy Sad Confused, actress Margaret Qualley shared that the prosthetics she wore for the movie "The Substance" caused her face to break out in "absurd" acne.