Nicholas Hoult reveals some details on Beast’s new look in X-Men: Days of Future Past

February 21st, 2014 by Irwin Fletcher Comments

During a set visit Nicholas Hoult shared the details of Beast’s new makeup and appearance:

“It’s become slightly smaller makeup, there’s a bit more of my face underneath it. So yeah, it’s a different design and slightly cooler than the last one as well in terms of heat. 

What’s happened up to this point is between the time of the last movie and this movie my character has created a serum which basically controls his mutation so his appearance is normal as long as he doesn’t get worked up.  Any animal instinct or urges, that kind of brings him out.  So yeah, he changes into Beast a few times throughout the story and they’ve done some great action sequences with him this time, particularly in the mansion flying around on these chandeliers and stuff.

It can be tough, it can be time-consuming. I did another big makeup job on Mad Max as well, so it’s one of those things where I seem to be doing a lot of it.  And it’s fun to be able to transform that much and you can play around with it a lot more and push the character in very different ways., but it is something whereby it’s kind of trial and error. We’d be doing some scenes and then Bryan would be like, “Try and use the makeup more.  Try and express.” And you have to do things that feel silly as well.  You have to growl and jump around and do things which if you weren’t wearing the makeup would be completely ridiculous, but in the makeup luckily I think it’s slightly more intimidating.  And I’ve got a muscle suit on so it’s maybe not as funny as me growling and roaring and stuff.  But yeah, there’s definitely a real “playing” element to it.”

20th Century Fox has release over 20 more photos from Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, many we’ve seen before but are now in HD.

The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The beloved characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class, in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.

Bryan Singer has managed to gather an impressive cast which includes James McAvoy, Ian McKellen, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Ellen Page, Halle Berry, Shawn Ashmore, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Jackman, Peter Dinklage, Patrick Stewart, Omar Sy, Daniel Cudmore, Fan Bingbing, Boo Boo Stewart, Adan Canto, Evan Peters, Josh Helman, Lucas Till and Evan Jonigkeit.

X-Men: Days of Future Past is set to be released in theaters on May 22nd, 2014 in the UK and May 23rd in the US

Source: JoBlo

 

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