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Transforming himself from inexperienced young Brit to decadent scion of privilege Chuck Bass clearly involves some impressive acting skills on the part of Ed Westwick, but as The Transom discovers, only by seeing the process up-close can you appreciate quite how much elaborate facial contortion is involved: "Mr. Westwick skillfully relaxes his eyelids... tilts his head sort of down and to the side, and proceeds to flex his nostrils as if mid-yawn and, voila!" Somewhere, Stanislavski is looking on and smiling. [Observer]