American model Bella Hadid celebrating her 23rd birthday at L’Avenue at Saks Fifth Avenue New York, NY on October 10, 2019. (Photo by David Warren/Sipa USA)

American singer Rebbeca Marie Gomez, known as Becky G attending the MTV Europe Music Awards 2019, held at the FIBES Conference & Exhibition Centre of Seville, Spain on November 03, 2019. (Photo by PA Wire Press Association)

Charlize Theron attends the 33rd American Cinematheque Award Presentation Honoring Charlize Theron and The 5th Annual Sid Grauman Award Presented by Hill Valley to Adam Aron on behalf of AMC Theatres at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 08, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

American singer Madison Beer arrives at the 2019 TrevorLive Los Angeles Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 17, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Splash News and Pictures)

Selena Gomez attends the 2019 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 24, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images for dcp)

A face of a devotee covered with her cloth is pictured as she offers prayers to the rising sun during the "Chhat" festival in Kathmandu, Nepal November 18, 2015. Hindus in Nepal celebrate "Chhat", a four-day festival that honours the sun god by praying at sunrise and sunset and seeking blessings for ones family by giving offerings. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

The internet has been awash with face swaps for years — here’s our contribution to the art of creating nightmares with Photoshop.

Photographer Howard Schatz had an idea: place actors in a series of roles and dramatic situations to reveal the essence of their characters. Such was the premise behind his book, In Character: Actors Acting, which captures some of Hollywood’s most emotive stars in the act of, well, making faces. Luckily for us, he continued the tradition for Vanity Fair. Here are some of the best.