{"id":805732,"date":"2026-10-17T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805732\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:36:09","slug":"clayfaces-tom-rhys-harries-says-prosthetics-helped-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805732\/","title":{"rendered":"Clayface&#8217;s Tom Rhys Harries says prosthetics helped performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Actors are often said to be the face of the film, but in Tom Rhys Harries&#8217; breakout role in DC&#8217;s latest blockbuster, that part of the body becomes the focal point to chart the character&#8217;s descent into villainy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rhys Harries plays the lead in Clayface as Matt Hogan, a handsome, successful actor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When his face is mutilated in an attack, he volunteers for trials of a new treatment with horrifying side effects that transform his face into living clay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh actor said he spent about half of his time on the set with the special effects make-up team, transforming into the mutant villain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the difficulty of wearing extensive prosthetics during filming, Rhys Harries said it helped him portray the distress of his character in a film that has been described as a body horror psychological thriller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was a benefit to having it, because the character is in discomfort&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clayface first appeared in DC comics in 1940 as a Batman villain, however the character has never been adapted for cinema, until now, and it is the first major studio movie role for Rhys Harries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actors are often said to be the face of the film, but in Tom Rhys Harries&#8217; breakout role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-805732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}