Oscar Isaac describes X-Men: Apocalypse as 'EXCRUCIATING'

Oscar Issac previously described filming X-Men: Apocalypse as "excruciating".

For the third movie in the X-Men sequel franchise, ancient mutant En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse is resurrected in the 1980s, hell-bent on destroying the human and mutant race.

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Isaac played Apocalypse and was forced to undergo hours and hours of makeup preparation as well as film scenes wearing a 40-pound suit that required him to take various cooling breaks.

“Apocalypse, that was excruciating,” told GQ.

“I didn’t know when I said yes that that was what was going to be happening. That I was going to be encased in glue, latex, and a 40-pound suit—that I had to wear a cooling mechanism at all times. I couldn’t move my head, ever.

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“And I had to sit on a specially designed saddle, because that’s the only thing I could really sit on, and I would be rolled into a cooling tent in-between takes. And so I just wouldn’t ever talk to anybody, and I was just gonna be sitting and I couldn’t really move, and like, sweating inside the mask and the helmet. And then getting it off was the worst part, because they just had to kind of scrape it off for hours and hours. So, that was X-Men: Apocalypse."

Issac explained that the main reason he took the role was to work with James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence, only for the makeup to leave him unable to see his co-stars while filming.

The movie received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, many of whom believed it was a step down in quality from the acclaimed X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix finished that franchise in what proved to be another damp squib for Sony.