Apocalypse's Oscar Isaac Opens Up About His Nightmare On-Set Experience

In a 2018 video interview with GQ, Oscar Isaac broke down his most iconic characters (at the time), and he revealed quite a bit about his tough experience filming "X-Men: Apocalypse" (via IndieWire). Apparently, when he agreed to do the film, he didn't know about the "excruciating" process he would have to go through to get Apocalypse's look. He said that in order to play the blue supervillain, he was "encased in glue, latex, and a 40-pound suit — [so] I had to wear a cooling mechanism at all times. I couldn't move my head, ever."

The suit was so heavy and encasing that his mobility was extremely affected, limiting many aspects of activity, including simply sitting. Isaac revealed that he "had to sit on a specially designed saddle," and the whole situation made him unable to really socialize with his fellow cast members at all. All he could do was sweat and film his scenes, while someone "rolled [him] into a cooling tent in-between takes" so that the temperature of the suit never overwhelmed him. Even if the film had been more successful, that's certainly a lot to go through for a movie role.