From John Hurt To Elephant Man

John Hurt had to wear 15 layers of prosthetics for the 1980s movie Elephant Man. It took two hours to take them off after filming. Hurt famously said, "I think they finally managed to make me hate acting."

It was a big job to tell the story of John Merrick, the first "elephant man." He was born with horrible deformities that couldn't be explained in the 1800s. People treated him like a freak show his whole life.
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