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How the Oscar-nominated makeup team of 'The Batman' made Colin Farrell disappear

George's Hall in Liverpool, England.

A rotund, middle-aged mystery man showed up to the set of "The Batman" early in production. The skin on his face was weatherbeaten, scarred. He brought with him a slight limp and a beaklike nose, jowls and slightly arched eyebrows. He resembled the missing link between the ghosts of Danny Aiello and Powers Boothe, with the rough, big-city bark of a two-bit gangster. No one knew him, yet he kept greeting people, the big stars in the cast, as if he knew them.

"Nobody would look at him," says Mike Marino, who was there that

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