Jennifer Lawrence told Entertainment Weekly that she’s unsure of her future as Mystique during a X-MEN: APOCALYPSE set visit last May in Montreal. One of her concerns being the makeup process, which exposes the actress to “fumes.”
“I love working with [director] Bryan [Singer], and I love these movies,” she says. “It’s just the paint.” She was 20 when she signed on for X-Men: First Class, she says, and didn’t care about “fumes and toxins. Now I’m almost 25 and I’m like, ‘I can’t even pronounce this and that’s going in my nose? I’m breathing that?’”
It took makeup artists eight hours to apply the body paint, prosthetic pieces and wig for Lawrence in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. They got the process down to three hours with the use of a body suit for DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. Original Mystique actress Rebecca Romijn endured eight hours for X-MEN and four hours for X2.
Romijn once hurled blue vomit on “X-Men” co-star Hugh Jackman, during an action scene the day after cast had a tequila-fueled celebration. Whatever’s in that paint absorbed itself into her body.
Given the health issues that both Mystique actresses have suffered, it’s getting past time that the production came up with another way to realise the character’s blue hue.
Surely there’s a post production solution. And while were at it, let’s get some clothes on her.
BTW, I don’t care if you’re a fan of Lawrence or not (though quite how you couldn’t be is beyond me), this is an issue that needs solving. A person’s health should not be at risk for the sake of an X-Men movie. I mean, come on…!?