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In Gillian Flynn’s 2006 novel, makeup-effects department head Adrien Morot counted about 50 specific words that Flynn had described as being etched into Camille. In order to completely cover Camille’s body in terms that would be legible to viewers, though, Morot calculated that he needed 350 to 400 words total—and asked the writers of HBO’s Sharp Objects to generate an additional list that would fit the psychic pain afflicting the show’s protagonist. “They are words. They are not just cuts,” pointed out Adams’s makeup artist Kate Biscoe. “They are a meta-narrative, and they have their own story. These words themselves are a road map to this woman’s pain… for her, it is a body armor.”

– Sharp Objects: The Poignant Story Being Told by Amy Adams’s Scars