Random Actors Whose Costumes And Makeup Nearly Killed Them On Set (15 items)

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  (#1) Jennifer Lawrence

  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, X-Men: First Class, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Winter’s Bone, House at the End of the Street, The Beaver, Like Crazy, Serena, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2, X-Men: Apocalypse, Joy, The Burning Plain, Garden Party, The Poker House, Company Town, Devil You Know, Not Another High School Show, The Glass Castle, Burial Rites, East of Eden

  Jennifer Lawrence signed on to play Mystique in X-Men: First Class before the one-two punch of Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook made her one of the most famous people in the world. It took Lawrence seven to eight hours to get into makeup for First Class, and the process involved six women painting her while she stood around naked. And the makeup came with nasty side-effects, too. 

  “I got a couple of things from the paint,” Lawrence said. “Like weird boils, rashes and blisters. [My doctor] had to pop them.”

  For the second film in the second X-Men trilogy, Days of Future Past, the process was amended so Lawrence wore a suit, and was only painted from the next up, but still, it took three hours, and she hated it so much she considered turning the part down. Among other concerns was her distaste standing around for hours breathing hazardous materials that might cause permanent damage.

  As she told Entertainment Weekly, “I love working with [X-men director] Bryan [Singer], and I love these movies... It’s just the paint…fumes and toxins. Now I’m almost 25 and I’m like, ‘I can’t even pronounce this and that’s going in my nose? I’m breathing that?’”

  If you've seen X-Men: Apocalypse, you surely noticed Lawrence was hardly ever blue. Because she was so famous for that one she just straight up said no. 
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  (#10) The Costumes On Star Trek: The Next Generation Gave The Cast Back Problems

  When Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted in 1985, creator Gene Roddenberry decided that Spandex was the material of the future. Unfortunately, spandex stretches only from side to side or top to bottom, depending on how it's cut. The costumes dug into the cast's shoulders, and considering they had to wear them for 12-15 hours a day, it was not long until many of the cast members developed painful back problems.

  Fortunately, the uniforms were upgraded by Bob Blackman during Season 3.  
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  (#8) Boris Karloff

  • Natural Born Killers, Bride of Frankenstein, The General, Scarface, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Black Cat, Bride of Chucky, The Mummy, I Walked with a Zombie, Black Sabbath, The Terror, Son of Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, The Raven, House of Frankenstein, The Walking Dead, Mad Monster Party?, The Body Snatcher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Raven, Targets, The Mummy's Curse, The Fatal Hour, Black Friday, Corridors of Blood, The Lost Patrol, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, The Mummy's Hand, Isle of the Dead, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Ape, The Sorcerers, The Ghoul, The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Comedy of Terrors, Two Arabian Knights, The Black Room, Isle of the Snake People, The Crimson Cult, Doomed to Die, The Vanishing Legion, The Invisible Ray, The Criminal Code, Unconquered, The Daydreamer, The Mystery of Mr. Wong, The House of Rothschild, Bedlam, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, The Man They Could Not Hang, Voodoo Island, The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake, Die, Monster, Die!, You'll Find Out, The Venetian Affair, Devil's Island, The Haunted Strangler, Five Star Final, The Man Who Changed His Mind, British Intelligence, Frankenstein 1970, Boo!, Tonight or Never, Tap Roots, The Bells, The Last of the Mohicans, Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, Tower of London, The Man with Nine Lives, Lured, Fear Chamber, Charlie Chan at the Opera, Mr. Wong in Chinatown, Before I Hang, The Emperor's Nightingale, The Devil Commands, Mr. Wong, Detective, House of Evil, Sabaka, The Strange Door, The Nickel-Hopper, West of Shanghai, The Invisible Menace, The Black Castle, The Little Wild Girl, The Climax, The Cave Girl, The Masked Rider, Destination Nightmare, El coleccionista de cadáveres, The King of the Kongo, The Mad Genius, Night World, The Boogie Man Will Get You, Night Key, The Lightning Raider, Forbidden Cargo, Lady Robinhood, A Fool's World, The Incredible Invasion, Juggernaut, Friend Good, The Mesmerist, Colonel March Investigates

  Boris Karloff, born William Henry Pratt, became an overnight sensation playing the monster in 1931's Frankenstein. The actual filming, however, was less than glamorous. While wearing lead-based paint on his skin and a heavy costume, he worked 19-hour days. According to his daughter, the already thin actor lost 25 pounds while filming. 
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  (#15) Michelle Pfeiffer Cut Her Own Face On The Set Of 'Batman Returns'

  Michelle Pfeiffer really brings Catwoman to life in Batman Returns. The role was hard to prepare for, though. Pfeiffer even had to practice learning how to use Catwoman's signature bullwhip for a month before trying her skills on camera. Her trainer sustained multiple injuries but so did the actress. During one practice session, Pfeiffer sliced open a part of her face with the 10-foot weapon. She covered the injury with makeup so Batman produces wouldn't make her use a stunt double. The actress shared:

  Whips have a beauty, an elegance and a sexuality to them. There is almost a graceful, dance-like quality to them, which at any moment could turn violent. I got a little wild the first day with my whipmaster. I slashed his face and drew blood. I even hurt myself a few times. But he was an amazing teacher; there is an actual beauty to the way he taught me.
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  (#7) Johnny Depp

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street, Platoon, Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Alice in Wonderland, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Sleepy Hollow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Ed Wood, 21 Jump Street, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hugo, Corpse Bride, Donnie Brasco, Rango, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Dark Shadows, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Blow, Finding Neverland, Chocolat, Secret Window, Public Enemies, The Lone Ranger, Jack and Jill, Dead Man, Cry-Baby, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Benny & Joon, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, The Tourist, The Ninth Gate, Into the Woods, Don Juan DeMarco, Before Night Falls, Arizona Dream, The Libertine, The Rum Diary, The Man Who Cried, Transcendence, The Brave, The Astronaut's Wife, Mortdecai, Private Resort, Tusk, Nick of Time, When You're Strange, Deep Sea 3D, Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Slow Burn, Shantaram, Yoga Hosers, L.A. Without a Map, Happily Ever After, Cannes Man, The Source, Stuff, Sonic the Hedgehog, Wild Roses, Tender Roses, London Fields, The Devil, the Sinner, and His Journey, Untitled Keith Richards Documentary, Divine Rapture

  In the 1990 Tim Burton film Edward Scissorhands, Johnny Depp played a shy not-quite-human with a penchant for topiaries and tight-fitting leather clothes. The latter proved too much for Depp during one scene, however.

  According to co-star Diane Wiest, "One night [Johnny] had to do a running sequence, running away from the house, I think at Christmas. And he passed out. He fell down and we thought, 'well is he acting? What's he doing?' and he'd passed out. Never complained, but he'd passed out from the heat of the suit. It was really remarkable, but somehow very revealing about him and that quality comes through his acting."

  Clearly Mr. Depp is more than willing to suffer for his art.  
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  (#4) Kate Winslet

  • Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, Sense and Sensibility, Divergent, The Reader, Flushed Away, Movie 43, Revolutionary Road, Heavenly Creatures, All the King's Men, The Holiday, Little Children, Contagion, The Life of David Gale, Quills, Iris, Hamlet, Romance & Cigarettes, A Kid in King Arthur's Court, Holy Smoke!, Hideous Kinky, Enigma, Labor Day, Carnage, Jude, Christmas Carol: The Movie, Insurgent, Mildred Pierce, Pride, Faeries, The Fox and the Child, A Little Chaos, War Game, Cleanflix

  1997's Titanic was the highest-grossing film of all time when it was released. It was, however, less beloved by the cast. Kate Winslet, in particular, almost drowned while filming a scene with Leonardo DiCaprio. As they ran from a wave crashing against a closed gate, her coat got caught and she became stuck underwater and had to struggle her way free. 

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