10 Movie Costumes That Actors Hated Wearing

In the X-Men comics, Raven Darkhölme, also known as Mystique, has clear blue skin and wears clothes like anyone else, but in Bryan Singer's X-Men movies, the aesthetics of the character were changed significantly.

In the films, where she has been portrayed by Rebecca Romijn and Jennifer Lawrence, Mystique is basically naked, with scaly patches of skin hiding her more intimate areas. It's a striking look but it meant hours of preparation for the two actors.

For each day of shooting, Romjin and Lawrence needed to sit around for eight long hours while all that makeup was applied to their naked bodies. Lawrence explained that the prosthetic scales would be attached first of all, followed by three coats of paint and then five more layers of the blue stuff in selected areas around her body.

The Hungers Games star actually had a bad reaction to the paint at one point, developing blisters on her skin, and so the production decided to give her a bodysuit for the latest X-Men film, meaning she only needed to spend three hours getting made up rather than eight.