The 8.5 - hour makeup cognitive process forHow the Grinch Stole Christmaswas so intense for Jim Carrey that , the first day , he " went back to [ his ] trailer and put [ his ] stage through the wall . " To foreclose him from quit the motion-picture show , producers had to " hire a gentleman who is develop to teach CIA operatives how to endure torture . "
Plenty of workplaces have uniforms or dress codes, but some are a little more…involvedthan others. Personally, I’m glad I’ve never had to lace into a corset or spend hours in a makeup chair to get ready for work.
Here are 15 actors who said their costumes and prosthetics were super uncomfortable, painful, or damaging:
1.InDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,Regé-Jean Page, who played Xenk Yendar, had the “most uncomfortable outfit.” He toldBBC Radio 1, “Like, filming in armor is not where you want to be… You’re hot all day. You can’t sit down. The sweat goes nowhere — it just kind of hangs out.”
" It becomes a scuba lawsuit , just with your own juices , " he said .
2.WhileTom Hollandwas playing Spider-Man in theMCU, his suit came with all kinds of problems. OnThe Graham Norton Show, he said, “I asked for a zip, and I didn’t get one… I remember them bragging about, they added in these fans that you could click, and it would supposedly cool me down. They worked once. I have these hot batteries in my helmet heating my head up… There’s a hole underneath the eye socket where we used to be able to feed a tube down, and I could drink without taking the suit off…because it takes a lot of time.”
His costarZendayaadded , " I really think we should do something about this . Like , all of us , we need to band together . We need to severalise somebody … It ’s one piece , so there ’s a helmet , and there ’s all these things that go underneath it , and I always have this reverence that if he ’s , like , work really intemperately or something ’s go on that , if he had to , like , throw up , per se … How ? How is he choke to get it out ? This is a actual concern … Sometimes when I look at him , I get a little scared … It just try me out ! "
3.Frances Fisher, who played Ruth DeWitt Bukater inTitanic, toldVulture, “Having that corset on completely changes your breathing style and posture… Nobody could breathe correctly. There were not a lot of places where you could rest. Sitting down was difficult. The corset would dig into your body, and you couldn’t lean back — the hat was so big.”
She continued , " They had all these resting boards for us , but nobody who had their hair up in a bounteous hat could use them . The proportions were incorrect . So we did a lot of suffer around . "
4.On her first day playing Kate Sharma inBridgerton,Simone Ashley"had this massive portion of salmon" so she could keep her energy up, but afterwards, “that’s when [she] needed to be sick” because she “realized when you wear the corset, you just don’t eat.”
She toldGlamour UK , " It change your consistence . I had a smaller waist very momentarily . Then , the instant you stop wearing it , you ’re just back to how your body is . I had a lot of pain with the corset , too . I think I buck my berm at one point ! "
5.TheGreen Lanternsuit was added digitally, but during filming, Ryan Reynolds had to wear a mo-cap suit. He toldGQ, “It’s made of actual woven misery.”
He keep on , " Whatever material they ’ve used , they ’ve managed to make it the most rut - conducting substance have sex to man . I literally beg them to just put me in a non - breathable rubber body suit . "
6.To play Mystique inX-Men, Rebecca Romijn had to spend “eight or nine hours every day just to get into costume” — which was just blue body paint. She toldEntertainment Weekly, “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!'”
She proceed , " I ’ve been in demurrer about the nudity : ' No , no , I ’m VERY covered up . ' I keep open checking with the rest of the cast , ' You cat , I ’m totally covered up , right ? ' And they ’d order me , ' No , Rebecca , you ’re naked . ' … One prison term , Bryan [ Singer , the director ] start the collapsible shelter where I was literally bent over a president getting my cranny touched up . And I was like , ' Do n’t fall in here , Bryan ! You do n’t need to see this . ' And he said , ' You really need some white wine-coloured . ' And he brought me some . "
7.OnThe Graham Norton Show, Jim Carrey said, “When I did [How the Grinch Stole Christmas]…literally the makeup was like being buried alive every day. The first day was 8.5 hours, and I went back to my trailer and put my leg through the wall.”
He continued , " I told [ director ] Ron Howard I could n’t do the movie . Then [ manufacturer ] Brian Grazer get along in , being the location - it man … and came up with a brilliant idea , which was to hire a gentleman who is trained to learn CIA operatives how to endure torture . And so , that ’s how I begin throughThe Grinch . "
8.Describing the furs he wore to play Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, Kit Harington toldThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “It weighs a ton. It smells awful… I think they add weight to it every year.”
He also said , " Whenever we went out there and you put it back on , you feel back in the character again . That ’s capital , but everything else about it is just … "
9.OnThe Graham Norton Show, Emma Stone — who wore a corset for the first time to play Abigail inThe Favourite— said, “It’s historically accurate, but I couldn’t fucking breathe… After about a month, my organs shifted because they have to. It was only temporary, but it was gross.”
She continued , " The bottom half of my belly , whatever , I ’m not a doctor , whatever is in there , went down that way , and I reckon just my rib stayed up . "
10.While playing the titular character inThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan got a “corset-related injury” from her character’s ’50s and ’60s-era outfits. She “can’t take super deep breaths anymore.”
OnThe Late Late Show , she said , " We babble out so fast on the show that to get all the words out , you ca n’t really take very many breath . And I think I was n’t breathing a lot , and I was a routine strained , and plain , some of my ribs are sort of immix together . "
11.Scarlett Johansson toldNightlinethat the tight outfit she had to wear while playing Black Widow inThe Avengerswas like a “wetsuit.” She also said that, while filming a rooftop fight scene, she got so hot that she started hallucinating.
She say , " It was so hot , I would wrench out my socks at the end of the twenty-four hours . "
12.To play Vision inAvengers: Age of Ultron, Paul Bettany had to spend 3.5 hours getting ready. He toldUSA Today, “It’s pretty painful, it’s uncomfortable.”
He continued , " You ’re working in it for 10 time of day and not really being able to hear well . There ’s only this much of your face assailable to the air . The first day is not the trouble . The 2nd day is not the problem . The third Clarence Day gets a bit tough . By the fourth and 5th twenty-four hours of the week , you are really having to meditate on the line of worker , thousands of them , who would love to be in your position . You have to pore on how lucky you are . "
13.Vicky Krieps told theBoston Heraldthat wearing a corset to play Empress Elisabeth of Austria inCorsagewas “one of [her] biggest mistakes because [she] underestimated it.” She “couldn’t eat properly, couldn’t breathe.”
She said , " I ’ve worn it before once or twice , but we decided to really take the stays of the time — the hourglass shape , with the tiny waist , big shoulder , and big coxa . And I was in so much pain all the clock time ! … It was really terrible . "
14.Stephen Ure — who played Grishnakh, an Orc, inThe Lord of the Rings— struggled to breath while wearing the heavy face prosthetics. At one point, it got so bad that he had a panic attack, but no one could tell because of the makeup.
He toldThrillist , " I was maybe three seconds away from ripping the face off so I could breathe — I thought I could n’t catch one’s breath … Suddenly , I just could swallow again . Nobody know anything . That was my own little instalment . I was totally freaked out for a min . That could have been dread . If I had ripped that face off , then that ’s the day go . That would have cost ten of thousands of dollars . "
15.While starring inCinderella, Lily James was glad that the ball only lasted a night because the gown was “just so big, so heavy,” and the corset was “particularly tight.”
She toldTime , " On the one hand , it help in the fashion you endure and the way you move , but on the other hand , it takes your breath mightily up into your chest . When I was try on to trip the light fantastic , I did n’t have the capacity to breathe to support the physicality , and so I had to keep need break and loosening the corset . But as I enjoin , it was deserving it . "
16.And finally, in the documentaryVal, Val Kilmer — who played the titular hero inBatman Forever— said that his batsuit was so restrictive, other people had to help him sit down and stand up. It also made it hard for him to hear. He said, “After a while, people stop talking to you. It’s very isolating.”
He say , " Whatever boyhood exhilaration I had was crushed by the realness of the Batsuit . Yes , every boy want to be Batman . They actually need to be him … not of necessity play him in a movie . "
