HJ: Mask is about a boy born with a deformed face. He apparently picked this subject because the first play he took Dorothy to see was The Elephant Man. She identified with it, because her great beauty was similar to the grotesque ugliness of the Elephant Man. In that the extremeness of each of them—extreme beauty and extreme ugliness—separated them from the common folk of the world. OW: Shit! HJ: This is his movie for Dorothy. It’s the myth of how horrible it is to be beautiful. But despite it all, I’m very fond of Peter. He’s uniquely gifted. And he’s as much a victim as everyone else.
