How arduous was it to wear all that makeup?
The first one, it was eight or nine hours every day just to get into costume. It’s a little less now. Still, there are four women who do it, and having them in my personal space for that many hours a day is crazy-making. You can go from being perfectly happy and having a nice time to just being, like, evil bitch woman: ”If one more person stares at me, I’m gonna pull my eyes out!” But having Alan as the other blue person was great. We would hang out together like an old, bitchy, blue married couple, like, ”No one understands us!” It was great because I was totally by myself on the first one, and I felt isolated. It felt like I was doing a different movie than everyone else; my character didn’t even interact with anyone. You’re not really wearing any clothes as Mystique, right? I’ve been in denial about the nudity: ”No, no, I’m VERY covered up.” I kept checking with the rest of the cast, ”You guys, I’m totally covered up, right?”’ And they’d tell me, ”No, Rebecca, you’re naked.
