Laura Bailey was excited. By this point, she had already been in a bunch of anime, but this was the first time she had landed a commercial gig. The only problem was that an unwelcome passenger was along for the ride; a huge zit right in the middle of her forehead. It was the kind that draws the eye when people talk to you – you see their focus drift up to settle on the monster mound peering over your brow, almost as if they’re communicating with the pimple itself.
“I get in the makeup chair and they’re looking at me,” Bailey laughs. “They’re like, ‘This thing is huge. What did you do?’ They’re lighting me and I’m sitting there for a very long time. Everybody’s looking at me, then back to the camera, and they’re all whispering back and forth. And finally, the director just throws his hands up and goes, ‘I cannot work like this!’ It was mortifying.”
