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Getting under the skin of the rest of the Oilers bench also turned out to be something of a team effort.

It did not matter that day that I was born with brown skin, or who my parents were, or what faith tradition I was born into.

For six months, the actor spent more time in monster makeup than out of it, with muscled prosthetics layered onto his body and deep fissures painted onto his skin.

The layered effect is magical—as if the vessel were malleable, atmospheric, and the figures were frolicking within its translucent skin.

These horses occasionally answered the call of nature, creating a bacteria-filled environment that required the athletic trainer to keep a supply of tetanus shots on hand, to be administered when players’ wounds broke the skin.