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This feels like the creative team wanted to make a body horror film, but the studio wanted to make another generic blockbuster.

Max Giorgio Choa Minghella (born 16 September 1985) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in the films Syriana (2005), Art School Confidential (2006), Elvis and Anabelle (2007), The Social Network (2010), The Darkest Hour (2011), The Ides of March (2011), The Internship (2013), Horns (2013), and Spiral (2021), as well as his role as Nick Blaine in the television series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025), which earned him a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Max Minghella, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
This feels like the creative team wanted to make a body horror film, but the studio wanted to make another generic blockbuster.
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