Bryan Singer has tweeted what he’s calling a ‘vengeful’ Mystique, played by Jennifer Lawrence.
So the question is, what does she have to be vengeful about? Going with the comic-canon Mystique… that would be quite a list of true and perceived injustices for her to be miffed about. Going from First Class… she kinda gets what she wants. She goes off with the hot guy to do whatever the heck she wants and seemed to be only moderately sad for leaving her ‘brother’ Xavier. If anything, old-Mystique from X3 is the one who should be pissed… though will Jennifer be playing her older self as well? Even though Rebecca owned the role in the first X-films, being a shapeshifter, Jennifer could play her old-self, once the cure wore off.
Or, is something going to happen (or did happen in the intervening years) which will make Mystique so vengeful? (Please let that involve Kurt… oh please, oh please.)
Going from a film/technical perspective. It was reported back in February that Jennifer would forgo the body paint and instead wear a body suit for the role. With the original body paint there was several pieces which were ‘glued’ on to do the scale effect and to preserve Rebecca and Jennifer’s dignity. From this photo, I’m pretty sure it’s a body suit as I can see a ridge line at her neck. It looks good, well matched color to the face paint and it’s very form fitting. However, Jennifer is standing still at the moment, it will be the action sequences which will be the most telling if this works or not.
In any case, I know Jennifer is a big star now, but, dunno, if Rebecca could do the paint three movies in a row, don’t see why Jennifer couldn’t… of course I’m not an actor so what do I know?
UPDATE: I missed the story were apparently Jennifer had issues with the paint, giving her hives and stuff, which then makes the switch make total sense.
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I don’t imagine that the paint job was easy on the artists doing it either.
But they didn’t give up on it for the first three X-Films… though I suppose Mystique has a bigger role in these…
oh well… as long as it still looks good on camera…
It was actually explained that the reason is cause Jennifer Lawrence had a severe allergic reaction to the paint, she kept breaking out all over and had to see a doctor quite a few times.
Just like John Rhys-Davies in Lord of the Rings, he had such bad allergic reactions due to the beard and make up they put on him when he played Gimli, that when asked if he would return for a cameo in the Hobbit he out right said he would never wear that make up again because of it.
So really, we’re lucky Jennifer stayed around, I can only guess how bad allergic reactions are, as I’m not really allergic to anything, but if it was across her whole body I doubt it was a fun time.
I didn’t hear that report, but I honestly could have mised it when First Class came out. If that’s true though then I can totally see the need for the body suit. Paint/Latex allergies suck.
Thanks for the info. 🙂