Even before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the X-Men movies provided an early example of how successful superhero films could be. 20th Century Fox ultimately kept this franchise going in a very unexpected way: by creating a series of prequel films showcasing our favorite heroes and villains when they were younger.
One of those villains was Mystique, a shape-shifting character who had previously been played by Rebecca Romijn. Starting with X-Men: First Class, the character was played by Jennifer Lawrence, the talented young actor who became a household name after the success of the Hunger Games films.
As it turns out, though, Lawrence had a much weirder time working on this mutant franchise. Don’t believe it? Keep reading to discover the most shocking facts about Jennifer Lawrence’s time making the X-Men films!
She nearly had to go supervillain on her landlord
The most striking thing about Jennifer Lawrence’s character was that she wore plenty of blue makeup. Her character was a supervillain in the earlier films, and while she could shift into any shape, her default form was that of a very blue young woman.
It took a very long time to put the makeup on each day (more on this later), and the work followed her home…literally. She was renting a London apartment while filming First Class, and her attempts to wash the blue paint off each day had dyed the tub blue. Because of this, Lawrence had a nasty fight with the landlord before she could get her security deposit back.