What These TV Villains Look Like Without Makeup
By Ava Barnes
While the villain Amal Farouk is later played by Navid Negahban on FX's Legion, the first main physical representation we get of his influence is the Devil with Yellow Eyes. The pale creature is played by Quinton Boisclair, a man whose casting was a wonderful stroke of luck.
In a 2017 interview with Deadline, Legion prosthetics designer Sarah Pickersgill called the discovery of Boisclair a "fluke." She said an unnamed crew member found Boisclair working at either "a comic book store, or a toy store." Boisclair stood out because of his six-foot-ten height and slender build. Pickersgill pointed out that this is a desired physique for creature work, because "we're always building onto somebody, so to start off with a smaller frame always works for us."
But once Boisclair signed on, it turned out his physique wasn't all he had to offer. Boisclair was already a big comics fan, so he wound up educating the makeup team about who they were turning him into. "Honestly, we didn't really know the background on the comic book, so he would fill us in while we were doing his makeup," Pickersgill told Deadline. She added that she wasn't sure if what Boisclair told them impacted how they did makeup, but that "it was interesting to learn, as we went, more about the character."
