Rebecca Romijn said that the shooting of "X-Men" transformed it into a "diabolical woman"
The actor had to spend up to nine hours on the makeup chair daily.
Enter the character to play mystical in the first three films of X men franchise took Rebecca Romijn In dark places as she plunged into the mind of angry and ostracized shashifter that turns against humanity. But emotional work was only part of what it took to become the scaly mutant. Read the rest to find out why the actor who has become a model said that the transformation into mystics for the films' 00s transformed it into an "evil" woman "and why she wondered if successor Jennifer Lawrence Had what it took to take up the character.
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The makeup process lasted until nine o'clock.
The realization of the aesthetics of the metamorph - which includes red hair, yellow eyes and blue skin - was an exhausting complex process, involving layers of body paint from head to toe, bodies and facial bodies, and contact lenses, by A backstage look to the realization published on Youtube. According to an article by Fox News 2014, this meant that Romijn often found himself in the makeup chair around midnight Just to be ready in time for the shooting of 9 am.
However, entering the head space for the marathon makeup sessions was an old hat for Romijn, which had already endured intense make -up sessions like the first painted model for Illustrated sports Swimsuit number on the theme of painting of painting the year before its appearance in the 2000s X men .
"You have to somehow go to a Zen place," said Romijn about his approach to the process. "You have to get into positions to help the person painting you."
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A particular part of the preparation hurt it.
After the first of X2 in 2003, Romijn gave Weekly entertainment Details on what it was on the set of the suite, including the difficulty of acting while wearing Botox type prostheses and the mortifying time director Bryan Singer entered her in the process of making him "crack". Although she was able to shave a few hours of her daily preparation by the second film, she said that having people working on the look and affirming with Gawkers on the set was transformer - and not in the right one sense.
"However, there are four women who make [makeup and costume], and having them in my personal space for so many hours a day is madness," said the star. "You can spend being perfectly happy and having a good time to be fair, like a bad [explanive] woman:" If another person looks at me, I will take out my eyes! ""
She found solidarity with a co-star.
Despite her blue humor, Romijn found a good side in the shooting of X2 : a comrade on the makeup chair via Alan Cumming , who joined the franchise to play Nightcrawler. As mystical (which turns out to be one of his parents in the comic strip series), the look of the mutant of demonic appearance included cobalt skin and yellow eyes in addition to the pointed ears. Entering the character meant that the Scottish actor should also spend hours in the makeup chair. (He then called the situation on the set "dangerous" and "abusive" And deplored his time as a "miserable mutant blue", by Yahoo! UNITED KINGDOM).
Romijn said their similar trials led co-stars to form a special bond. "We dragged together like an old blue married couple, [explanive], as" nobody understands us! "" EW . "It was great because I was totally alone the first, and I felt isolated."
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Romijn was not sure of Lawrence's vision on the character.
When Jennifer Lawrence entered the Romijn shoes to play the youngest version of mystical in 2011 X-Men: First class , Romijn was too happy to pass the torch to Hunger games star. "I love to share this role with this girl," she told Fox News in 2014. "She is as cool as they come." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
However, the original mysticism wondered if the preparation of Lawrence - she used a body combination after having a bad reaction to the makeup of the body - gave her the bite she needed to play the character with flame hair. "But I think nine hours of makeup make you the villain you need to be mystical," added Romijn.
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