{"id":819837,"date":"2026-10-31T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819837\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T14:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:30:11","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-is-all-done-getting-painted-blue-for-a-paycheck-thank-you-very-muc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819837\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence is all done getting painted blue for a paycheck, thank you very muc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Lawrence has been taking a bit of a victory lap at the moment, largely inspired by her decision to (briefly) return to the Hunger Games\u00a0franchise for its upcoming prequel-plus-some-framing-story-bits Sunrise On The Reaping<\/a>. But while she\u2019s been expressing genuine gratitude for the role that Katniss Everdeen has played in her life, Lawrence has been a little less\u00a0effusive about the thought of ever playing one of her other big franchise characters again.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely fucking not,\u201d Lawrence responded, in a recent Allure\u00a0interview<\/a> (per\u00a0Variety<\/a>), when asked if she\u2019d ever consider doing a job that involved getting the extensive paint and prosthetics that went into her costumes for the\u00a0X-Men\u00a0franchise\u2019s Mystique again. While cautioning that she\u2019d \u201cNever say never,\u201d Lawrence nevertheless sounded\u00a0pretty\u00a0damn \u201cnever\u201d about the whole idea. \u201cYou know how air brushing is very cold?\u201d she asked, \u201creminiscing\u201d on the process of getting into the Mystique look, which she\u2019s said took eight hours when she first appeared as the character in X-Men: First Class. \u201cAnd I am ticklish. I learned how little sleep I can operate on and what can happen to the human mind when you\u2019ve actually reached your breaking point. And patience!\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence ultimately soldiered on through four X-Men\u00a0movies, where, we can\u2019t help but note, several of her co-stars didn\u2019t seem to have to go through much more than the occasional shaved head, or pressing their fingers to their temples while doing an \u201cI am lifting a building with the power of my mind\/magnets\u201d face. She did speak warmly about doing the movies\u2019 stunts, including noting that she\u2019d worked with Renee Moneymaker, who\u2019d previously been her double on\u00a0Hunger Games, on the character of Mystique. But anybody hoping that Marvel\u2019s recent push to get all the X-Men back into the fold might include any of the First Class\u00a0bunch should probably know that it\u2019s going to run straight into a wall of Lawrence really not wanting to spend her life in blue paint anymore, thanks. (That being said, Rebecca Romjin, one of the few people on the planet who might really, truly\u00a0understand Lawrence\u2019s plight here, has agreed to come back to the franchise for this December\u2019s\u00a0Avengers: Doomsday.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence has been taking a bit of a victory lap at the moment, largely inspired by her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}