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For Mr. Robot, the devil is in the details

Malek plays Elliot, a hacker tortured by psychological demons

RAMI MALEK HAS TAKEN A beating—or at least it certainly looks that way. It’s a sunny spring day in Brooklyn, and he’s on a break from shooting a scene for his show Mr. Robot that’s left him in impressively bad condition. He fiddles with the contact lens that creates the illusion of a streak of blood in one of his eerie, saucer-like eyes. A makeup artist touches up one of his lesions. Malek

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