MARGARET QUALLEY MAJESTIC : FILMS ACTING HONOURS

Margaret Qualley, 29, has more than earned a break. After making a striking debut 10 years ago in the HBO series :

 '' The Leftovers, '' she appeared in '' Once Upon a Time ..... in Hollywood,'' followed by Emmy-nominated performances in ''Fosse / Verdon '' and the Netflix mini-series '' Maid.''

In the past year, she starred in ''Poor Things,'' '' Drive-Away Dolls '' and '' Kinds of Kindness,'' and when we met, she had just returned from shooting three back-to-back movies - Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's '' Honey Don't !,'' John Patton Ford's '' Huntington '' and Richard Linklater's '' Blue Moon.''

Moviegoers will see her in '' The Substance,'' a film that is somehow a departure from all of the above and one that she acknowledged was uniquely challenging.

Directed by Coralie Fargeat and slated for release now. It is a body-horror blood bath in which Demi Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, an actress who, attempting to recapture her fading youth, injects herself with a mysterious serum.

The result is Sue, played by Qualley, a younger, taller, '' perfect '' woman who emerges fully formed from Elisabeth's body. The two of them must trade places every week, with the one who's off-duty kept nourished by IV bags of potions.

But soon enough, Sue develops a taste for her brand-new world and doesn't want to be put on ice when it's her turn to hibernate.

Qualley was in Panama, shooting Claire Denis's  '' Stars at Noon,'' when she read the script and was drawn to the prospect of playing a character who seemed '' really far from me,'' she said.

'' It was just very singular, this inverted fairy-tale horror story,'' she said. '' I had a feeling that it was going to be special.''

The Publishing continues into the future. The World Students Society thanks Kathryn Shattuck.