Oscar Isaac's X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Costume Will Use Practical & Digital Effects
Yahoo Movies sat down to chat with 35-year-old actor Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) about his upcoming film Alex Garland's Ex Machina, but they were able to slip in a few questions about X-Men: Apocalypse.
Oscar Isaac has been a very busy boy. After he wrapped J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens he went straight into doing press for J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year and Alex Garland's Ex-Machina. When he is done that he will go into pre-production for his titular villain role in Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse. “After we finish here I’m heading to do a head cast [for ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’], which they do often," Isaac tells Yahoo Movies. "You spend 3-4 hours with them putting plaster all over your head and they get a sense of what your face is like and what shape your head is, so they can start figuring out the costume and the make up and all that stuff, which is pretty fun.”
Isaac also offered some tantalizing details about his costume. “It’ll be a mix [of practical and digital]," Isaac said. "I haven’t had a script so I haven’t had a chance to look through the script and see what the exact requirements are, but I think it’ll be a mixture of physical, aided with some robotic technology.”
How faithful will his costume and make-up be? I don't know. As comic book fans know 20th Century Fox doesn't have the greatest track record of being faithful to look of X-Men characters. Right, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)? Though, I'm not even sure a blue-lipped and gray-skinned mutant in a big bulky costume made of organics and celestial technology will translate well on screen. Hopefully, they don't keep Apocalypse's full reveal under wraps until the film's May 27, 2016 release. That would be a drag.
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