Jennifer Lawrence Officially Rules Out Another ‘X-Men’ Mystique Transformation

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The trajectory of Jennifer Lawrence‘s career as a movie star can be gauged by the evolution of her character in the X-Men film franchise. Lawrence broke out with an Oscar-nominated performance in the film Winter’s Bone, and was soon cast in the lead role of Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games franchise. She quickly became one of the highest-paid actresses in the world with two major franchises to her name. In the X-Men reboot series, which was launched in 2011 with X-Men: First Class, Lawrence played the shape-shifting mutant Mystique. In a recent interview with Allure, Lawrence said that she has no intention of playing the character again, and shared the biggest reason for her aversion.

Lawrence said that she experienced breaking point while sitting in the makeup chair for up to eight hours on X-Men: First Class. She ultimately played Mystique in four movies, with her blue-skinned appearance gradually being reduced with every new installment. By her final appearance, which came in the film Dark Phoenix, Mystique was killed off. Before Lawrence was cast in the role, Mystique was played by Rebecca Romijn in the original X-Men film trilogy. Romijn will play the character again after two decades in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday.

Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger
for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it
would cost you to stay.

You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are
loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the
room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.

• The Avengers are not friends who became a team. They are a team that slowly and
  reluctantly became friends, and you would recognise every stage of that process.
• You can hold your own among big egos without needing to win every exchange, which is the
  real entry requirement here.
• The arguing is part of the method. This group does its best thinking mid-disagreement,
  usually at volume, usually in a very expensive building.
• When the sky opens, they are who shows up. You would want to be standing in that line.

You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The
X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something
in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.

• This is the only team on the list whose central conflict is not a villain. It is being
  wanted gone by the same people they keep saving.
• You know what it is to be the outsider in a room and to decide, anyway, that you will
  not make yourself smaller so everyone else is comfortable.
• The X-Men are the most genuine found family in comics. People arrive with nowhere else
  to go and are never once asked to explain themselves.
• You would not be joining for the glory. There has never been any.

You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are
the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an
inconvenient side effect.

• Every Titan is somebody’s sidekick who decided to stop being one. That decision, not the
  villain of the week, is what the team is actually about.
• You would be joining people who are all working themselves out at the same time as you,
  which is far less lonely than being the only one.
• The Titans lose regularly. Then they eat together and come back better, which is a more
  honest model of growing up than any other team here manages.
• The tower would be loud, chaotic, and the first place that ever felt like yours.

You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a
while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people
in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.

• The Boys have no powers, no mandate and no funding. What they have is leverage,
  patience, and a very high tolerance for consequences.
• You are the person in the room who notices the thing everybody else has quietly agreed
  not to mention.
• This is not a heroic team and it has never pretended otherwise. It is a group of damaged
  people doing necessary work in ways nobody would call clean.
• You would not sleep well. You would keep going anyway.

Jennifer Lawrence Isn’t Sitting in a Makeup Chair for 8 Hours Again

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Shutting down her chances of pulling a Tobias Fünke again, Lawrence told Allure, “I learned how little sleep I can operate on and what can happen to the human mind when you’ve actually reached your breaking point. And patience! My favorite part of playing Mystique was the stunts. It was so fun to train in that way and learn how to move. I had the same stunt double, Renee Moneymaker, who was Katniss. She is one of my best friends, so that was great. My least favorite part was most certainly the paint.” In addition to X-Men: First Class and Dark Phoenix, Lawrence also played Mystique in X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse. The X-Men film franchise is being rebooted by Marvel Studios, and while the central cast has already been announced, there’s no word on who will play Mystique. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

X-Men: First Class

In the 1960s, superpowered humans Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr work together to find others like them, but Erik’s vengeful pursuit of an ambitious mutant who ruined his life causes a schism to divide them.