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Before being blue in a Curiosity film was normalized by Guardians of the Galaxy's Yondu and Nebula, Rebecca Romijn stepped in to play Mystique, one of the most intricate characters in the Ten-Men films. Since the actress passed the title to Jennifer Lawrence, the Hunger Games star shared her distaste in the makeup process, but apparently the OG actress has nothing but love for the long get-ready process.

Rebecca Romijn recently reflected on her role equally Mystique following the movie's recent xx-year ceremony. The Star Expedition: Strange New Worlds actress spoke nigh what it was similar to turn into a mutant when Looper asked her the nigh memorable attribute of the Ten-Men role:

I guess information technology was the makeup application. It was no joke! My call time was at midnight to be ready at 9AM. It was a 9-hour makeup process. We did, over the course of three movies, manage to become information technology downward to seven hours, but that was still ... It was a large bargain. And I realized pretty early on that was the job. I was getting paid to be a part of that makeup application. The interim was free. The job was getting all that makeup put on!

Information technology's truthful. In the early on X-Men movies, the allure of Mystique was how exotic she looked in her mutant form. An important element of her character was how proud she was to be blue despite her power to shape-shift and alloy in whenever she wished. With that in mind, spending an entire piece of work 24-hour interval being turned into the comic book grapheme was the nearly important part to the role. Rebecca Romijn continued:

Too, information technology was the most cute costume I've ever seen in my life. Every unmarried time they finished, and I would expect in the mirror, I would just wait at information technology like it was a masterpiece. And I treasure information technology now, because hindsight is 20/20, and I don't recall how painful information technology was, but I actually appreciate everything that came from that, really. I'm glad that I did it exactly how I did it. It was worth it. Information technology was worth every unmarried 2nd of all that, of all those 11:xxx wake-up calls to become to the set up. I would effort and go to bed at 7:30 or 8AM and just lay there, and then I would have to get up at 11:30PM and go to work, and work for 24 hours straight.

Information technology definitely sounds like Rebecca Romijn had an insane work schedule as Mystique. She spent her nights getting fix and days on prepare for the X-Men trilogy, but what'southward amazing is how much dear she has for the time as the grapheme looking back. She was truly part of an iconic moment in Curiosity history with Raven, and she'd even get back and do it once again if she could. Every bit she said:

Certain. Well, with the makeup, yes. I wouldn't exercise it without the makeup, because I feel like that'south a really large part of the transformation of the character, is going through that makeup process. There is cypher that turns you into a colder, harder bitch than going through that makeup process. I really experience like it's a actually key part of the character. Going through that procedure is similar, 'Okay, I'1000 aroused. I'm super angry now.'

Every bit it turns out, the clandestine to Mystique is the makeup. If you were slumber deprived and had spent hours being turned blueish and scaly, y'all might exist able to pull off Raven's free energy as well. On the other hand, Jennifer Lawrence played Mystique for four films, and in a larger role for Offset Class, Days of Hereafter Past, Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix, and she admitted that information technology wasn't the best of times. She said she didn't care for the "fumes and toxins" (understandable) or the long strenuous process in a makeup chair.

For the last X-Men picture show, Night Phoenix, Jennifer Lawrence didn't commit to the full makeup process of Mystique, and her grapheme's image declined in quality as Mystique died in the moving-picture show too. Disney's Marvel universe is set up to feature mutants in a coming movie. Check out the upcoming MCU lineup here on CinemaBlend.