Oscar Isaac played the eponymous ancient mutant in X-Men: Apocalypse. Comicbook.com reports that he says the costume and makeup effects required to portray the villain made his time on set ?excruciating.?
Isaac told GQ of portraying the blue-skinned supervillain, he didn?t know, when he said yes, that he would be encased in glue, and latex, and in a 40-pound suit. He had to wear a cooling mechanism at all times.
The convoluted and restrictive getup prohibited Isaac from moving his head. It cut the star off from cast mates Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, and James McAvoy.
He said, "I couldn?t even see them because I couldn?t move my head. And I had to sit on a specially designed saddle, because that?s the only thing I could really sit on, and I would be rolled into a cooling tent in-between takes."