Superhero costumes look nice onscreen, however oftentimes, they’re fairly uncomfortable to put on IRL.
Listed below are 19 actors who hated their superhero and villain costumes:
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Tom Holland’s MCU Spider-Man swimsuit got here with all types of issues. In 2021, he instructed The Graham Norton Present, he mentioned, “I requested for a zipper, and I did not get one…I bear in mind them bragging about, they added in these followers that you could possibly click on, and it could supposedly cool me down. They labored as soon as. I’ve these sizzling batteries in my helmet heating my head up… There is a gap beneath the attention socket the place we used to have the ability to feed a tube down, and I might drink with out taking the swimsuit off…as a result of it takes loads of time.”
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Earlier than serving to design her new Scarlet Witch costume for WandaVision, Elizabeth Olsen wished her outfit “would simply not be a cleavage corset.”
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To play Mystique in X2, Rebecca Romjin spent hours in make-up day-after-day. In 2003, she instructed Leisure Weekly, “The primary one, it was eight or 9 hours day-after-day simply to get into costume. It is rather less now. Nonetheless, there are 4 ladies who do it, and having them in my private house for that many hours a day is crazy-making. You may go from being completely comfortable and having a pleasant time to only being, like, evil bitch lady: ‘If yet one more individual stares at me, I am gonna pull my eyes out!'”
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Equally, Jennifer Lawrence did not like being coated in physique paint to play Mystique from X-Males: First Class onwards. In 2015, she instructed Leisure Weekly, “I really like working with Bryan [Singer], and I really like these motion pictures. It is simply the paint.”
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For Oscar Isaac, taking part in Apocalypse in X-Males: Apocalypse was “excruciating.” In 2018, he instructed GQ, “I did not know after I mentioned sure that that was what was going to be taking place. That I used to be going to be encased in glue, latex, and a 40-pound swimsuit—that I needed to put on a cooling mechanism always. I could not transfer my head, ever.”
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Scarlett Johansson was anxious about sporting her Black Widow costume for Avengers. In 2017, she instructed Bravo’s Contained in the Actors Studio, “Have a look at that factor. I imply, who desires to get into one thing like that? You simply assume, ‘Oh god, actually? Could not it have, like, I do not know, some form of a peplum skirt or one thing?’ This factor is like very: there you might be. It was additionally every thing it represented. The character was so beloved. She’s an iconic character. And I did not understand how individuals have been going to take it. What the hell was I doing on this franchise? It was daunting.”
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In Avengers, Tom Hiddleston’s Loki costume was sizzling and uncomfortable as a result of it was “30 kilos of leather-based and metallic.” The eight-pound helmet was particularly depressing.
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Within the 2021 documentary Val, Batman Endlessly actor Val Kilmer mentioned, “No matter boyhood pleasure I had was crushed by the truth of the Batsuit. Sure, each boy desires to be Batman. They really need to be him…not essentially play him in a film.”
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In 2017, Michelle Pfeiffer instructed The Hollywood Reporter that her Batman Returns Catwoman swimsuit was “essentially the most uncomfortable costume [she’s] ever been in.”
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When Arnold Schwarzenegger performed Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin, it took an 11-member workforce 4 hours to get him in costume each morning. The worst a part of the costume was the LED gentle in his mouth as a result of his “saliva would creep into the seams of this factor and assault the batteries, [then] the batteries would instantly begin disintegrating and begin placing out battery acid into Arnold’s mouth.”
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In Suicide Squad, Margot Robbie rationalized Harley Quinn’s outfits to herself as a result of she was “sporting sizzling pants as a result of they’re sparkly and enjoyable [not because] she needed guys to have a look at her ass.’
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In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Paul Bettany’s Imaginative and prescient costume was “fairly painful, it is uncomfortable.”
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In Captain America: Civil Warfare, Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther costume was “blazing sizzling.”
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To movie Inexperienced Lantern, Ryan Reynolds wore a mo-cap swimsuit, and the precise tremendous swimsuit was added digitally in post-production. In 2010, he instructed GQ, “It is product of precise woven distress.”
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To put on her Ajak costume in Eternals, Salma Hayek needed to face her fears. In 2021, she instructed Selection, “I’m claustrophobic. I used to be petrified of the costume. I used to be terrified. As a result of if I can’t transfer and it is form of thick… I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, I am not going to have the ability to breathe. It may drive me loopy.'”
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In Eternals, Barry Keoghan was uncomfortable in his cumbersome Druig costume. In 2021, he instructed HeyUGuys, “There was, like, three layers to it, and I complained day-after-day about it.”
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Throughout a 2020 New York Comedian-Con panel, Smallville actor Laura Vandervoort confirmed that she needed her Supergirl wardrobe to be much less revealing. She mentioned, “I did ask them to burn the wardrobe after I was completed with the present.”
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Watchmen actor Malin Ackerman mentioned that sporting Silk Spectre’s latex costumes was “an attention-grabbing course of.” In 2009, she instructed Entry Hollywood, “It is actually like pulling an elastic band over your complete physique. You then let go and let it snap and you then gotta put on it for 16 hours.”
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And eventually, in 2017, The Tick actor Peter Serafinowicz instructed Yahoo Leisure, “I believe one factor all superhero costumes have in frequent is that each one actors who should put on the superhero costumes hate sporting them. It appears to be like good, so I suppose that’s the necessary factor.”