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“It certainly happened to me,” said Schimberg, who has a cleft palate.

When Schimberg first wrote the script, inspired by his own struggles with a cleft palate and his experience working with Pearson on his 2019 satire “Chained for Life,” he initially had no idea how he would actually pull off the film’s demanding prosthetics work.

Take lamotrigine, for instance: In the early 2000s, animal trials indicated that it could increase conditions like cleft palate, but later studies found no such link, reassuring clinicians.

By late afternoon he was on rocky ground cleft with ravines.

I compared it to my own visual lexicon of roundness: cleft chin, tight curls, bumpy nose.