The photos show a clean-shaven Clapton with a bouffant, permed hairstyle. Morrissey gained two stone for his role and had his hair permed and dyed. Short, permed hair was the standard women's hairstyle of the period. A is a type of tightly permed male hairstyle in Japan. Ahead of filming, producers ordered Heller's newly permed hair straightened at the network's insistence.